Facility A-1: The Raid
Facility A-1 was not a normal station, it clearly had more defenses and more well-trained staff for those defenses. It only took a few minutes for the Facility to be in order for defending it. Massive shields projected over the station, as the fighter and bomber wings stationed there went into the air, the non-heavy ones cloaking and preparing to drop their payloads upon the Ethereals. The first wave of weapons were magical lasers, intended to burn through the shields of the Ethereal ships. Next the standard balefire and kinetic weapons were mixed when any of the shields of the Ethereal ships dropped; added to this mix was new anti-matter missiles, contacting with the ships armor and annihilating, creating great explosions. Also a few Plasma turret encampments on the station fired as well, but these seemed to be new and relatively rare amongst the station, but they did damage none the less.
Stealth bombers as well as heavy bombers moved in and deployed balefire and anti-matter on the Ethereal ships. This time the fighters stayed back, and were already ready for any dog-fights against Matrons or Sisters that the Ethereals might deploy. From a different part of the facility two new ships came out, clearly prototype ones for some new future Iscandarian ship design. They appeared to be frigates, but were more elongated, and rather then the standard silver-and-gold coloring of Iscandarian ships, they were a purplish-black. These ships began accelerating towards the Ethereals, and then cloaked, the first Iscandarian frigates to do so. When they reappeared they launched plasma and anti-matter missiles, and attempted to re-cloak before the Ethereals could hit them.