The coupled heavy lasers bit savagely into the Aschen ship. Delivering only thermal damage unlike the Asgard plasma beams, it took a little while but the hull begun to sizzle and boil where the invisible deadly beams impacted. The enemy tried to maneuver away, but it was of no use - the lightspeed weapons didn't require any lead at this distance and yet they were not close enough to outturn the turret. Just as the other turret powered up for a strike, the enemy got another shot out and blown it out of its ring. The Aschen tried to engage their cloak again, but the accumulated heat in the hull made the tactic ineffective - too much heat bled through and allowed the Nyx to line up a shot.

The Nyx shook as the spinal cannon accelerated their deadly shell. On impact, the round torn the enemy ship in half. Since the Nyx was staying still it wasn't a relativistic impact, but it did the trick. That said though, the drones were not relenting form their assault. "Get us moving and into the atmosphere, those things got to have lower limit on reentry speed than us. Once we're there might as well do ground support."

Two piranhas launched form the tubes and punched a hole in the cloud of drones in front of the Nyx, allowing the ship to accelerate out and into the atmosphere where the drones that followed burned and crashed. "Damage report?" Catherine asked.

"One of the main turrets is jammed - a kamikadze drone took it out. Minor electrical fires across the ship when the main weapon hit us and the innertial dampeners will need a revision, but we're still in combat shape." somebody reported. "Good, let's mop up on the ground and go home."