It was Captain Ernest Johnson again who was conducting this briefing. He held a tablet in one hand and was rapidly tapping and swiping across it before he swiped across the whole thing and the briefing holo-screens lit up with images of the strange new fighters, their emblems, as well as those of the original enemy.<span style="color: #00BFFF">"The squadron that decimated our ranks are mercenaries that call themselves the Starwolves. Their leader is a young man by the name of Skylar Siren Shade. The fighters that the Starwolves used are his design, and he flies the uniquely camouflaged Valkyrie that single-handedly wiped out Gamma platoon. That brings us to their Valkyries. The VF-86 <span style="font-style: italic">Akula</span>. This fighter goes by another name. <span style="font-style: italic">Yukihyō</span>, which means Snow Leopard in Japanese. Apparently this was the original name, but the Russian word for shark was apparently more fitting. According to our research, this valkyrie is not something you want to tangle with even when a mediocre pilot is flying it. No simulations we've attempted have as of yet been able to replicate it's performance. Supposedly the <span style="font-style: italic">Akula</span> has a sort of neural connection to the pilot, which may be a factor, but this cannot be confirmed. The next time you run into these whether their aces are present or not, you turn and you run as fast as your airframe will allow. You'd only have a chance against them if your were flying a <span style="font-style: italic">Siegfried</span>."<br/><br/>"Now the Starwolves have a very reliable reputation that comes with a catch, if their employer orders them to turn on innocents, civilian or otherwise, they turn on their employer and wipe them out. The Starwolves have done this a total of five times since this civil war began, and likely many more times beforehand. The Starwolves are a military corporation and are very wealthy, and they usually have their own warships, so we'll need to be on guard for those at all times. However, your biggest issue for them will always be their fighters, but as of yet, we don't have a clue who hired them."<br/><br/>"Now, we come to the other faction, the <span style="font-style: italic">Dawntreaders</span>, these people are one of many factions vying for dominance in the Brisingr Globular Cluster, and they're very well supplied as I'm sure you all saw during your mission. How they managed to land that force right under our noses is still a mystery, but those jamming transmitters likely mad a massive part in it. The most we can hope is that those two sides will fight over that one factory and leave the city be, but we all know that may not happen. Any questions?"</span>