Third Fleet, Admiral Hauglot
Over New Condia
Fleet log: 
Left Taoshe Dockyards
FTL jump into the Kunis Abyss
Cooling drives
FTL jump outside of New Condia gravitational well
Cooling drives

After two cooling stops and two jumps the third fleet was finally within striking range of New Condia, slow making a burn into a high orbit over the planet. Using the mayday signal from the Jaques as a beacon, the fleet pushed itself into a geo-sync orbit over the crashed ship. Each Septum class ship covered the port and starboard side of the Aries class vessel. While the Lahai class ship hovered above the formation, acting as a lookout. Calling this collection of ships a fleet was not exactly correct, this was more a fleet detachment and was lacking in strength. Each ship had an field of fire and a particular sector to cover, making sure to have interlocking fields of fire.

STC Inrilk ( A-237) 
Captain La’jue
 
“ Ok strike party listen up!” the captain yelled, standing in front a roomful of pilots. “ Here is the plan, strike group A will move with the landing party until you get below the cloud deck. Then you will split away and make a defensive perimeter around the landing party as they drop off the marines. Group B will consist of fighters and bombers which will be on call in the lower atmosphere, they will provide gun runs and bombs when and if needed. Ship borne artillery is also on call if needed for support, but remember the initial goal of this mission is to rescue the surviving crew of the Jaques, any questions?….none, good report to your ships”.

Roughly twenty dropships and there gunship escorts launched from the Inrilk and moved down towards the planet, making their way towards the crash site en-masse, staying in front of the sun to keep the element of surprise until the last moment. The sound would be almost deafening as the ships fired their retro-boosters and pulled into a hover, kicking up dirt and rocks around the crash site. Marine jumped from the low hovering dropships and assembled themselves in yet another defensive perimeter just outside the Jaques. After a couple minutes the landing site was full of marines working to salvage what could used again on the ship and removing the sensitive material.