>>6325740It was pretty obvious that the Raihans didn’t care about their arrival, probably thought they could just play keep away and out range them like they always did. Holloway could already see the firing solutions in the noosphere.
“Main battery, target the Ryu harassing the Commodore’s flagship. <span class="mu-i">Lumen</span> move in and raise shields.”
A pair of laser beams lanced out into the void. The mid section of a Ryu flared and melted, right where the primary heat sinks were. It had always been such an obvious target, but nobody had ever had the range to hit it, until now.
The Imperial Kestrels immediately converged on the <span class="mu-i">Fireknife</span> trying to knock out its laser turrets. Holloway already had the shields up and the incoming gauss slugs splattered harmlessly across the hull, all power and precision compromised by the dense plasma field enveloping the front and mid section of the ship.
Some of the Imperials had the bright idea to try hitting them in the rear, but Sovereigns own ships were already forming up behind Holloway and their heavy kinetics shredded any Kestrels trying to out flank them.
The Ryus tried to dance around and take pot shots but this was no longer a dance; it was a straight up endurance match. In the end the Imperials could neither break nor pick apart the Pact formation. After losing multiple ships including a Ryu class, their remaining ships turned tail and ran.
Holloway breathed a sigh of relief.
>Quest will continue later 