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With your escort easily blowing away the remaining defensive drones, you have a moment to strategize on your plan.
Bombing the weak point of this station will destroy the invisible magnetic tether between this orbital ring and the others around it. It will also cause a total blackout of the Baalathi energy in this system, since their other cylinder hasn't finished constructing one yet. It may be that these superstructures are used by the Baalathi to communicate with each other, send the data prion, and manage other large-scale tasks.
However, even if destroyed, the Baalathi's “natural habitat” in the clouds of this gas giant will be essentially undisturbed. Nan-I and Nan-II probably have so many Baalathi in them already that trying to destroy them all would be nearly pointless; the most realistic solution would be to honestly find a gas that is “toxic” to them and pump it into the atmosphere of the planet, or build self-replicating AI drones to hunt them down one by one... no, it would take an army of drones to do that. Even your MkIII's.
Perhaps it may not be in the best interest of the Hegemony to kill all the Baalathi residing in the gas giants though. If it would be possible to control their behavior through gasses, you might be able to use them- or even retrofit their technology and computer systems somehow.
You're coming up on your target now- the magnetic tether is also surrounded by several turrets; probably here to blow away any space junk that might disrupt the tether. Just great. You can already see them start to turn towards you, and you will be within effective range shortly.
It might be possible to blow them up before they can shoot you along with your escort... but you're drawing a blank on your ship's capabilities. Should you risk shooting them, or divert power to shields instead? If you go fast enough, who knows if they can even hit you.
>Power up weapons
>Power up shields
