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Aster didn't waste a second. Upon seeing the swarm begin its attack, she placed herself right in its path, firing as fast as she could at the oncoming legion and scattering several of its members like dust on solar winds. Using her bladed shield to batter the enemies that got past her blazing rifle, she did her best to pick off the drones headed for the Cortex. Even though she was firing nigh blindly, the fact that the drones were in compact formation made it easy to score hits almost every time she fired. Still, without support from the fleet's guns and from her fellow Neurosuits, she wouldn't be able to hold them off.

Letum, meanwhile - intercepting the Humans' transmission through a stolen communications system he had left functional where it lay embedded in his back, a tactic he was quite fond of - traced the signal to its desired destination, thereby locating the Humans main base on Zuin. He didn't need to attack there just yet, especially since they were preparing for him. Instead, he navigated away from the civilized sections of the planet, putting him out of range of the Humans' guns. Most colony defense destroyers and gunboats wouldn't have the firepower needed to eliminate him when he had reached this size and density, so he wasn't particularly worried about those. Still, he kept a close eye out for them as they might launch and attack him. There was no telling what aces they might have up their sleeves.