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There were fire too many pods being fired for the majority of them to be stopped, each one holding up to five or six soldiers, engineers, intelligence agents. This wasn't just an attack that would end after a few hours or a few days, they were laying the ground work for terror cells, guerrilla warfare, dissent among the people of the SEC.

One couldn't be sure exactly where each pod would land, even those that fired them couldn't be one hundred percent sure. They just needed as many pods as possible to hit the planet and deposist the men and women inside.

"We're under attack.Something's forcing our weapons away from the planet." An engineer said to the fleet's new commander, "Now we're being forced off course." He continued, "How long will the shields hold?" The cpatain asked.

"Hours if nothing goes wrong." A crew member answered, "Drop the engines." The captain ordered, fearless despite his ships coming under attack. They wouldn't last long, not under these conditions as far as he could tell. But, that wasn't the point of the mission.

"And then fire the Chroniton torpedos in all directions wher we have enemies and the planet itself."

In the egine rooms of each Jupiter Corporation ship men and women worked to remove their engines from whatever was holding them in place. The engines themselves were round in shape and very large, obviously meant to power the ships and their weapons entirely on their own.

"We're in overload in three seconds." An engineer said as he and many others tapped buttons, flipped switches and pulled wires on the engine itself.

"Bridge, we're ready."

With those words uttered cargo doors opened beneath the engine room, sucking out everyone in the room and the engine. The other ships did the same, engines shooting out into space surrounded by dead and dying men and women. To call the sight gruesome would be nothing but an understatement.

The engines preppeled towards the SEC vessels, seemingly attracted to them. This while with the last of their energy the ships they came from fired several torpedos at their enemies and Syntori 8. The torpedos fluctuated an eerie orange glow as they moved, they and the discarded engines all that remained of the Jupiter Corporation ships as their shields went down and they were attacked by the forces around them.

That and the men and women simultaneously burning and freezing in space.