once the earth fleet arrived at luna III Drake and the others dissembarked and headed towards one of the main briefing rooms of the base. the officers were all gathered and sitting awaiting the arrival of Naval commander Shanon. Shanon was a strict woman who wouldn't cut any slack on anyone. the woman entered she was a 28 year old woman with long chocolate brown hair and deep blue eyes. she wore her hair in a pony tail and wore a freshly pressed uniform. "we sent 17 ships out and only 7 returned" she stated in an icey tone Drake smiled despite the tone "ah yes that would be my fault ma'am we encountered an arteron fleet that was much better equiped than we had anticipated." Shanon did not seem at all amused by the remark of h the commander. "Well then why don't you explain to me the situation" she glared at the young man with fierce eyes that suggested if he tried anything funny she would kill him. Drake smiled and pulled a disk out of his coat "this disk contains the battle logs of the Alexandria" he remarked and placed the disk into the monitor to display the events of the battle "as you can see they had some unexpectedly powerfulmachines it will not be long before these machines grow to become a great nieusance for our forces and i believe that if we were to somehow stop them before they could launch then we would have no problem with them. however those battleships are equipped with quite some heavy fire power." then he smiled at her and stated "i believe these machines  to be the last will of Dr. Stargrove......of Arteron" everyone of the other officers flinched at the mention of the man who had betrayed the earth forces for arteron. then he smiled as he sat down. Shanon frowned "well then i'll leave the pursuit and destruction of these machines to you since you seem to understand them so well. i'll also assign the avalon and mendel teams to your command as well. all in all a grand total of 30 ships will be in your command.....actually make it 33 because you also take 3 automaton units with you" drake frowned "as you wish ma'am" and with that the meeting adjourned and the officers all went to their respective cabins to rest until they were informed of the next launch.