[b]Facility A-1: Gauntlet[/b]

The ships gathered together into a tight sphere, devoting all power to defense and armor, protecting the core Cathedral and Amazons as best as possible. The resultant formation made them much more durable, as the armor faced the outside of the sphere and intercepted much of the incoming fire. The magic based weapons, meanwhile, proved to be the most detrimental, causing three damaged Temples to fly out with no armor of the formation, and the ball grew tighter. These Cruisers accelerated towards the squadrons at various points, and detonated after too much fire, trapping scores of them in the blast. The cloaked enemy bombers, meanwhile, were unscathed. 

As the Fleet approached, the front of the formation broke away, and the Cathedral's Collapse Cannon began to charge. Hundreds of Matrons flew from the formation, forming a dense web of fighter craft to intercept and destroy any squadrons who tried to get to the front. This shot, when fired, would hopefully be enough to bring down the shields of the station.

[b]On board the Explorer[/b]

As the Witch began trying to access the files, it whirled around at the Hunters, and hissed at them, confused as to how they found it so quickly and floating up. It fired a beam, narrowly missing one of them, and began to try to fall back slightly. It's weapon was not meant to fire quickly, and if they moved fast enough, it could avoid the beam before it fired,