[center][h1]Lieutenant Aria Dvalin[/h1][/center]

The alarm in her cockpit blared, and that was all she needed.

“Multi-lock achieved! Firing for effect!” Aria depressed the trigger, and a veritable swarm of micro-missiles came screaming out of the Armatus’s shoulder-mounted launcher. 

The pirates scattered as they noticed, to little avail. No matter how many they evaded or eliminated with point defenses, the nature of the SPAMRAAMs meant that eventually, one or two would get through. And even if they did, it left the pirate ACs distracted and open enough to be dispatched by her lancemates, as evidenced with the Baron.

For her part, Aria swapped from rifle to saber as soon as her salvo was launched, manuevering the Armatus in at high speed in order to bisect one of the pirate machines right after it was rocked by a missile barrage.

“Kill confirmed!” Right afterward, the tactical situation changed once more, and Aria glowered from her cockpit as she checked the readout. A frigate in reserve? Pirates weren’t this smart. Something was wrong here. At least their resident stealth expert was doing her job correctly, which left it up to Aria to make up for any hole in the line, lest the others be overwhelmed. 

“Lance, Armatus. Complying with [i]Indomitus[/i]’s request, intercepting enemy frigate. AC lock maintained, firing one more salvo for effect!” 

Another burst of micro missiles to distract the pirate ACs and hopefully leave them vulnerable for the rest of the Lance to take advantage of, and Aria broke off. She swapped the Armatus back to its rifle, boosting haphazardly and erratically to try and throw the enemy frigate’s lock off while she attempted one of her own. In the meantime, Aria leveled her mech’s rifle, took aim, and began to fire, hoping to knock out more than a few of the ambushing frigate’s turrets before starting an actual attack run.