The drones on the ground continued to push against the settlement, still more crawling their way out of the ground. Some of them beginning to move in a curve to surround the settlement in retaliation to the new found resistance they seemed to be encountering.

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In space the first wave of drones was torn to shreds from the pirranha missiles and other point defense systems, warranting a change of tactics, pulling themselves closer to the ship in order to try and draw the missiles from the [i]Nyx[/i] to turn back on itself and cause self harm. Which was necessary as though while there was sustained fire the weapons of the drones were doing little to the shields of the [i]Nyx[/i]. That was, when a large portion of guns were turned away from the rear. Another ship appeared, decloaking. It looked like a predatory fish, long and sleek in design. The hull began to flare with power, and then seemingly from nowhere in particular a beam of high energy pierced space making contact with the shields of the [i]Nyx[/i]

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The ship shook slightly, an damage alarm went off. Lawson had since pushed the poor officer out of his seat, he was navigation anyway. Lawson needed the seat. "Shields are holding at eighty seven percent, minimal damage. That was a hell of a beam, that would have damn near tore an old 303s shielding." He began looking over the readouts of the new ship, bringing up a hologram on one of the Generals screens.

"She's aschen all right, from the telematry we managed to save the last time this appears to be the exact same class of ship as we've dealt with before. If we can hit her before she cloaks again with something big this fight should be over. They don't have defensive shielding. At least last time we came across one it didn't."