<span style="color: #00BFFF">"Well if that's truly all, then you are all dismissed. Due your engagement today, you all have the option to take the rest of today and all of tomorrow to rest and recuperate. However, if the city is attacked and you're present inside the <span style="font-style: italic">Elysion</span> you will be called upon to scramble. Good luck to you all if that happens."</span>The Captain stated before the holo-screens vanished and he walked out the door.<br/><br/>After that a day passed with relatively low excitement. The were a few probing skirmishes but nothing particularly violent. But in the city everything was relatively calm. You however were assisting with some minor maintenance of your<span style="font-style: italic">Kairos</span>when the Macross Elysion's alarms began blaring. It was then a race against time to finish the work, gear up, and then launch.<br/><br/>Outside, over the mountain range, nine warships were moving toward the city. Eight were of one design, and there was one other of a different design. Nine of the highly advanced VDF-86<span style="font-style: italic">Akula</span>Valkyries flew in front of that one, which lead the formation, while dozens of other fighters, mostly formations of VF-25<span style="font-style: italic">Messiah</span>s and VF-31<span style="font-style: italic">Kairos</span>consisting of nine each in front of the other ships. They were advancing slowly and cautiously, even as Chaos aligned warships were bearing down on them. The lead ship's guns turrets calmly swiveled onto their targets before firing, spearing each ship with a bolt of coherent light that fire a moment appeared to have been absorbed by their targets, before the bolts lanced out the other side of the hull and then faded away. The ships that were hit began to slowly sink toward the ground.