The ship lurched into action, launching a volley of semi-intelligent drones that launched waves of missiles at the Datelli cruisers as the ship itself turned with alarming sharpness the opposite direction, the AI guidance subroutines failing to account for the damage and cracking the Waterloo's armor due to the inertial stress of the move. The ship began to moan as the FTL drives were spun up. The heavily damaged enemy ships fell back, but not before the lead vessel launched several small boarding craft.<br/><br/>"ATTENTION ALL CREW, BLIND JUMP ON ESCAPE VECTOR IN 2.5 MINUTES. BOARDING PARTIES INBOUND FROM DATELLI CRUISER K'MARRA. ALL HANDS, PREPARE FOR JUMP AND BOARDING ACTION" A feminine computerized voice said over the shipwide address system, the voice of the Waterloo's AI core.<br/><br/>5 boarding pods full of voracious, starving Datelli soldiers were inbound. They were elite squads led by the gravidly pregnant Lieutenant Vishra Aluri, a vixen dragoness hybrid famous for eating a whole company of Kaeli soldiers and a whole village of humans they were defending during the fall of Kaeli Prime.