Two of the Cel ships diverted beam weapons to dealing with FERALs while their missiles continued to streak towards the Wolkar cruiser. All other beam weapons either hit the Wolkar cruiser, or crossed over Litharian ships at random. They still believed their victory to be assured, by way of arrogance in their technology, and even closed the gap between their own vessels and the enemy ones.

On top of the full-steam-ahead tactics, an anomalous pulse of energy from three of the four Cel frigates was accompanied by the appearance of eerily darkly clad, armoured figures appearing all over the precursor station in groups of two and three. And then, after another pulse from two ships, even more armoured figures appeared upon the Wolkar cruiser. Their numbers, for now, were impossible to determine.