[quote=WilsonTurner]
The Explorer, after firing another beam at the weakened ship, began turning to fire on the other two ships, slowly reaching extreme combat range. Shortly after the Explorer turning on the other ships, the first salvo of missiles reached the first enemy ship. First, one couldn't see anything; then there was just a sudden burst of little yellow engines, all lighting up at once all around the first attacking ship, and easily over two hundred missiles the size of a car's axle slammed into the ship, either piercing or just exploding in great blue flames.And as the Explorer turned to the other approaching ships, the Valkian cargo-ship activated its sublight drive, and disappeared, shortly before enemy ships reached extreme engagement range.As the four large pterodactyl creatures approached, the very few anti-air slash anti-orbit emplacements surrounding the city opened fire. The rounds were more to target any kind of Valkian, and were almost like veritable artillery rounds that exploded into a very large flak-like burst of Swarm missiles, which were like shoe-sized high-explosive missiles. Three emplacements were able to fire on the pterodactyls, and the emplacements each fired two of the rounds at the pterodactyls. As the black-smoke-trailed rounds neared the pterodactyls, each of the rounds exploded, disbursing half a dozen of the small Swarm missiles to take on the pterodactyls. Due to a lack of any war, it is unknown whether the ground-defense actually WORKS; while the Explorers' weaponry has undergone extensive tests, the city defense emplacements were never really tested.
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The first ship was annihilated by the attack, what slag was left of it floating uselessly in space. The remnants of a single tentacle on the smallest piece grasped uselessly at the far off explorer. The reactivated ships paused for a moment, before making a short jump forwards at light speed to close the distance. The jump was less than a second, 0:40 to reach light speed 0:55 to brake. Just before it dropped out, one of them fired a large underside mounted railgun, the shot travelling at near light speed towards the explorer... The shot was likely highly inaccurate due to the way it was fired and could easily be off course. The othership plowed towards the explorer, firing plasma based weaponry at it in the hopes of causing damage to the explorers armour...

The other two ships changed course from chasing the cargo ship. One moved towards the container it had dropped while the other approached the city on the planet..

Planet side

The pterodactyl like forms attempted to dodge the incoming shots, but the swarm missiles would be their downfall. Two of them were killed, but a third was able to evade the missiles by diving and traveling along a small rocky canyon, flying under land bridges and finally swooping up and continuing towards the city.

The space ship appeared overhead, and rained down spore forms towards the city below. It turned its weapon systems and fired plasma down at any emplacements it could pick out, all 43 active plasma gun batteries firing at them. It slowly moved down to the planet, and intercepted the transport ship, attempting to grab it with its tentacles. One of the plasma guns changed its target and attempted to knock out the transports engines so that it would be easier to take hold of and board...