As the Cel vessels opened fire the Litharian ships were a tad shocked to see such a violent outburst from strangers, but that was quickly dashed and the HAMMER warships with weapons already hot began firing volleys of heated plasma at their attacks. Thankfully most of the shots were targets at the Wolkar's cruiser. their shields and armor should buy them some time to get in some good shots. But they weren't ready to leave them hanging, their point defense systems powered up and started going to work at those missiles, they wouldn't get all of them, but a third, maybe half if they were lucky could be shot down.

The Scouts were contacted and informed of the newcomers becoming hostile and they sent their engines into full drive to get into flanking positions ASAP. The two of them almost in range, but one was on the far side of the system and would need more time.

The few lasers that were aimed at the Litharian ships raked their hulls causing a good deal of damage, but all of it superficial, so far.

Back on the station the Litharians and Karadon received the warning and looked on as a battle opened up above them. It was a quick thinking Litharian scientist who looked away from the battle and remembered that the station was armed with weapons. Using the Wolkar's translation code he accessed one of the station's weapon terminals and if it was correct they seemed to be manually controlled. All around the their central command structure more terminals were used to access the weapon systems, booting up a few of the guns, about eight in total. Trying out the controls they began aiming and firing off a few practice shots away from teh battle. Really it wasn't that hard to control them at their core level. Getting ready the scientists and soldiers who were manning the guns took aim at the enemy ships readying them for fire.