As the Voided Lights emerged from its folded space drive,, the massive scanner systems all began flashing with alerts and a stream of data started scrolling on the screens. Kicking in the heavy maneuvering engines the cruiser began to skitter in a maneuver to kick the stern around so that the massive guns would be able to fire broadside if needed. An automatic message was sent to the orbital space station- “Darashal System. This is Talisan Cruiser Voided Lights. We are responding to your distress call. We are assessing the situation and will provide what assistance we can.”

Captain Hussar eyed the screens before she inhaled deeply, “Send word to COMAHFLT, we have a situation here, a very bad situation.” The junior officer next to her nodded and scrambled down to communications where a pulse broadcast was sent to the closest Talisan Naval base with the following.

To:COMAHFLT
From: HMS-Voided Lights CAG-21
Reference- Map-Series Special- DA 1:50,000.
Time: Local Alpha- 0023:444

OppFor elements at Darashal-Open hostilities. Elements of the HPDF are engaged with OppFor. Large concentration of fast-movers near HPDF. It is estimated that HPDF will have less than 4 hours survivability. CoD-223 attached to CAG-21, further cross-attachement to T/F BB-54/CVN-98.

CAG-21 will move to defend Darashal in OPD Lagrange 1-311200A and OPD Lagrange 2-9984064 to destroy one OppFor at that station.

CAG-21 defends in detail Darashal- CAG-21 will deploy CoD-223 and VF-28 to intercept fast-movers and provide PDF.

CAG-21 End. Alpha-0023:445

The command at Al-Hazred forwarded the information to T/F BB-54/CVN-98. The Talisan Battleship Fading Glory and the Assault Carrier Tempest and their accompanying support ships 20 L.Y away from Al-Hazred and nearly 100 L.Y out of the Darashal system.

The defensive forces on Al-Hazred were alerted, while the information was forwarded to the President and his council as well as the psychic impressions recorded by the Lord-Captain were accessed to glean further insight on the Angar-Ryllan forces.

While the transmission is being sent, the large ship began moving forward towards the planet's Lagrange point, the whole while the battery of defense weapons began ripping apart dozens of incoming fighters from the Angar-Ryllans. Still a beam of the large Angar-Ryllan assault ship the massive Xi-particle boson accelerator long range assault cannons of the cruiser opened up, sending massive energy bursts towards the disc shaped ship that hung in a geosynchronous orbit over the planet. 

The brilliant display of energies as the weapons fired filled the skies above the planet with intense lights as the radiations illuminated particles that were traveling through space. Even the ground troops of both sides paused as the brilliant streaks glowed bright enough to compete with the planets own star.

Aboard the warship, the flight crews of the fighters and the unmanned fighter/bombers were busy finishing equipping and fueling them. As the first pilots climbed into the cockpits, the entire ship shuddered a moment as the main guns fired. A cheer raced through the flight deck, before they returned to the business of prepping the fighters. A moment later, the first flight launched, to be followed the rest at intervals of every 5 minutes.

It was as the energy weapons of the Talisan Cruiser slammed into the defensive shields of the Angur-Ryllan warship, creating a stunning display of crackling and fragmenting energies spheres. A series of blips appeared on the Talisan scanners. A long-range sweep displayed a number of Patronius warships, this was confirmed a moment later as the following message was picked up:

Darshal Colony, this is Patronius Task Force 112/424D responding to an emergency communication sent out by one of our freighters...
We are in-system and twelve minutes out...
We will render what aid we can...
Requesting orders...

Jabbing down a override communication button, Captain Hussar spoke swiftly, “Patronius TF 112/424D, this is Cruiser Voided Lights, CAG-21. We are engaged with the OPPFOR and request that you establish evacuation routes starting from our position outward. Out.”

As Captain Hussar finished she saw the first flight of her own fighters enter the fray around the Darashal orbital station. It was going to be a long day.