Considering the distance was short, Mei and the rest of Omega squadron were on site rather quickly. Gamma Squadron was waiting in guardian mode just out of sight of the smaller city, fully prepared to dart up out of cover at the first sign of trouble. Upon entering the mission area comms became spotty and filled with stiatic, but were still usable due to close proximity. Upon close examination, the fact was revealed that the city had been taken over. Dozens of Valkyries of VF-25 Messiah, VF-27 Lucifer, YF-29 Durandel, YF-30 Chronos, YF-24 Evolution, VF-31A Kairos, VF-171 Nightmare Plus, and Sv-262 Draken III models were present, some landed and inactive, others patrolling in all three modes above and on the ground.<br/><br/>The Valkyrie Construction Facility was a hotspot of both Active and non-active Valkyries and other mecha. The sheer size of the forces was staggering. Good news was that a majority of the overal mecha that were active only numbered around Thirty. But in total there was likely over a hundred. Gamma Flight immediately ordered a retreat outside of the jamming range in order to relay what had been discovered. In response, the full compliment of active Valkyrie squadrons were scrambled. And upon quick re-examination of the mission area, Emile noticed that many of the inaactive mecha were being boarded and armed. Either the mission had been discovered, or the unknown force was preparing an attack.<br/><br/>Meanwhile, behind one of Ragna's moons, several defold gates opened and nine large warships exited and became stationary. Eight of them were of similar design and well armed, but not heavily while the ninth was margnially smaller, but much more heavily armed than the rest. The other eight ships opened up hangars and began fighter deployment preparations, while the Ninth sat in wait, dark and quiet. It's internal electronic warfare systems, combined with it's stealth capabilities, was preventing the Macross Elysion from detecting it and the other eight ships it arrived with. To all except each other, all nine ships simply didn't exist.<br/><br/>Back on Ragna, the unknown force occupying the mountainside city and it's mecha productions facilities were beginning to send out probing patrols and were getting ever closer to discovering that they no longer had the element of surprise. Then orders were given to both Gamma and Omega Flights to attack and do as much damage as possible in order to slow down the unknown force's mobilization, and the unknown force was to be considered hostile on all accounts and to be handled with extreme prejudice. Backup was being prepped for launch. All Gamma and Omega Flights needed to do was cause as much damage as possible, and hold out until backup arrived.