The next few hours were spent cleaning up after the formal dinner and getting the ship ready for long range void exploration.  Elsewhere in the system,<em>Concordia</em>finished damage control work, and put out all the fires aboard the ship.  The repaired<em>Exelion</em>stood guard at the edge of the defense perimeter, with a small line of frigates behind it, hoping desperately that an aftershock assault wouldn't come and wipe out the system's defenses.<br/><br/>Slowly, the navy vessels were starting to lay out the starship graveyard in high orbit of Ares, void suited technicians already picking through the ruins of the assembled ships.  Some had been blasted completely in half by lance fire, while others looked almost completely intact, except for one or two relatively tiny holes where macrocannon shells had entered and exploded in their vital systems, killing all aboard while leaving the hull pristine.  The<em>Valence Pyre</em>swarmed with landers, as Imperial forces took the Reavers into custody and got them ready to serve hard labor in prison camps.  Their labor would turn a tidy profit for the Dynasty, and the labor force was ready at the disposal of the Rogue Trader.<br/><br/>On the bridge of the<em>Kobras Aquairre</em>, Lord Tarsus presented his report on the status of Attica Station.  "According to our scans, and the reconnaissance efforts of Coral squadron, several dozen Reavers got into void suits before being killed by the decompression, and now haunt the station waiting for their power cells to run out.  Their weapons weren't void sealed, so all they have for armament are looted Imperial Guard lasguns.  Given the damage to the station's superstructure, they can be easily bypassed by simply flying a shuttle down the arterial corridors of the station.  The core section, however, will be more difficult.  The damage to the life support system merely vented all of the station's waste gas into the core, instead of depressurizing it.  The gas is not flammable, but rebreathers are needed to breathe.  A single Imperial Guard platoon survived the initial onslaught, and put their rebreathers on in time.  Their numbers are down to just 27, and they're struggling just to defend themselves from the Reavers in the area.  The Reavers appear to have brought along mutants who could conveniently breathe waste gasses, and they've been attacking the platoon continuously.  Their leader is known to be grotesquely obese, and wield a heavy stubber.  They appear to have taken the corridor leading to the vault as their HQ."  His report given, Lord Tarsus returned to his duty station, content that the tactical situation was now much clearer.