The knuckles on Jules hands were white from the tightness of her grip on the assault slugthrower. The violent shaking of the ship had now ceased and she knew that proably meant the shields had fallen. A loud metallic impact and scraping from the airlock confirmed that thought, whatever ships their attackers were using to board had locked onto the station.<br/><br/>"This is it. Hold your fire until there's a clear target." Someone shouted.<br/><br/>A deafening roar and the rush of a blast wave swept through area in front of the gate and Jules ducked down behind the barricade as it rolled outward. As it passed she came back into a firing position with her weapon trained on the dark empty space revealed by the yawning and twisted airlock doors. The boarders swarmed through a moment later and every member of the security force opened up instantaneously.<br/><br/>The shear volume of fire directed on the breach halted the first rush, the half dozen or so figures in the gap jerked and spun from the impact of numerous hits. Half of them fell unmoving, the solid slugs finding weak points in their armour or simply chewing through from multiple hits to the same area. More figures pressed through, leaping over the fallen and pushing aside the wounded.<br/><br/>The attackers fired as they moved forward, suppressing some of the defenders behind the makeshift barricades and lessening the amount of fire directed at the airlock. To Jules right a chaingun fired a long burst at the knot of boarding aliens, scything down a couple. A huge armoured figure sprinted forward and Jules let off half a clip at the faceplate of it's combat armour. Plexiglas or some similar alien material shattered and the figure pitched forward.<br/><br/>A grenade hit the barricade on Jules left and burst into flames, two security members were engulfed and flailed around as grotesque human pyres. By Jules side another guard was hit in the face and flew backwards, virtually decapitated. In just a couple of seconds half the defending force had been killed or injured, though the pile of fallen attackers in the breach kept growing. More and more aliens pushed through, their numbers now meaning that much less fire was directed at each individual.<br/><br/>"Fall back, fall back." Jules didn't know who was giving commands, but it was clear they were being overwhelmed.<br/>