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“Aya, sometime today.” Greers huffed at the Nova Wolf’s core.

“I almost got his resonance locked down.” She replied with some strain in her thought patterns. The moment they jumped in the system Dugal’s signature went dark then she sensed an inconsistent variable therefore she had to scramble to find his signature again. She could have sworn it came from the Aschen PAC until it suddenly flickered like it was being obscured
“I got it!” She exclaimed. “They’re aboard a ship with stealth capabilities; we need to hit their ship with tachyons to light them up for extraction.”

The moment the coined dropped the Nova Wolf made an inverted thrust move in form of a zero-g back flip that could have snapped a strike craft in two in such extreme alacrity it conveniently dodged the first two lances of focused nuclear energy in a timely fashion by a few yards only for the one lance boxed-in for the center mass to clip its starboard side. The folded space around the Nova Wolf’s passive barriers directed it away from the hull to literally bounce the shot back to a retraced trajectory of its point of origin towards the Stalker. The UDW ship was vulnerable to its own shot within a nanosecond in the bounce back effect from the barrier. The rest of the energy was absorbed and dispersed by the metaphysical barriers including the radiation which made radiological alarms go off from the sensitivity of the damage sensory. The torpedoes that followed afterwards were either dodged completely or scattered away towards the PAC during the Nova Wolf’s radical movement pattern.

“What the hell was that?!” Tallulah braced herself on the tactical display projector board as the ship shuddered softly from the impact.

“Damage control reports focused fusion beam and tandem impact kinetic penetrator ordinance.”Breena opined. A single thought and she synced up with engineering to have adaptive sub-routines to adjust congruent countermeasures to make the next attack even less effective. It was unparalleled synergistic control of every Avaeon warship to minimize damage just by learning how the enemy is shooting from ‘feeling’ the ship and where it was shot at and how it was shot.

The Stalker merely stunned the cruiser momentarily to have it in the sights of the Harbinger of Piety’s guns.

“Vectors, full power! All ships weapons free!” Greers thought as he and the core felt the charge of the weapons through the ships’ astral sensory. He timed it perfectly with his helmsmen to dodge the deadly Polaron Blaster by a second to take full advantage of interialess vectoring to hurl his ship forward then snapped a parabolic turn to match the curvature of the Reverence II’s firing arc to avoid the weapon entirely. The Helmsmen skillfully directed the cruiser in the same practice as Greers intended to the PAC’s underbelly just when Tallulah picked up on the UDW firing danger close by retracing the trajectories and learning the “firing behavior” to use the PAC’s momentum against the UDW’s guns in a daring ship acrobatics to protect themselves from another attack. The Nova Wolf’s powerful drives popped the ship around to tail the resonance signature aboard the Nighthawk as soon as Greers took the window of opportunity he allowed his crew. The cruiser simply popped out of range, pushing its coils to new limits to catch up with the ship in time to blast it with tachyons and free particle arrays to overload its stealth field. Nanoseconds of timing and precision though neural syncs prompted a QD missile to be sent up the Nighthawk’s tail pipe to disable the engines and her drives to prevent escape. The Quantum Disassembler missile instinctively through fire control augmented the solution to a tandem metaphysical warhead on the fly simply by ‘feeling” the power outage in the shield’s physics with post-quantum optics and the material consistency of the armor. The transition was timed exactly enough to rend through the shields and armor to disable the engines and the drives without destroying the entire ship. Its hyper relativistic speeds and the lack of a “report” or origin from which it was deployed made interception a subject of improbability.

Meanwhile the Nova Wolf’s escorts, the two frigates Trykor and Moon Hawk, delegating their own tactics when the Stalker opened fired on the Nova Wolf they stopped toying with the Harbinger of Piety to engage the Stalker and to get out of her firing zones. The Trykor, under command of Commander Urshas Rone, sent her parting gift to the Harbinger of Piety right when she switched from using her point defenses to a coherent light shell. The Trykor’s battle meditation medium knew to take advantage of the chaos of the engagement to overwhelm the PAC’s A.I. which was occupied with the Nova Wolf. The weapons’ nigh instant delivery to target timing slipped past the A.I.s reaction time less than a zeptosecond her hard light shield went up. Urshas prompted fire control syncs with a thought to deploy a Quantum Detachment missile to full yield to use the PAC’s shield against itself to contain the destructive anti-baryonic forces to literally gut the PAC nearly in half horizontally from prow to lower hip adjacent to her engine modules of her bottom lattice structures as if gutting a fish.

Anything that so much as resembled information, electronic or cybernetic warfare by the Striker and her cohort vessels was answered back by the claircognized talent of Avaeon ‘mind warfare’ regardless of the psionic inhibitors. The Stalker’s psychokinetic assaults shared the effectiveness of a person screaming through thick sound dampening glass windows towards the conditioned minds of Avaeons to an extent they were all but immune to such attacks. They answered back with psychokinetic assaults of their own with neural shredder attacks magnified thousands of times to debilitate the UDW’s crews to the point they’ll either be reduced to synapse overload or such confusion it affected their combat abilities. The UDW showed their hand when the Stalker and its UDW contingent dared to play the Avaeons at their own game when the mind warfare cabal made it a two way street to use the Striker’s attacks against them. The UDW strike force, even though cloaked, would not recognize this counter attack initially akin to spotting a shadow in the night now they were up against logarithmic architecture so exotic to their own their own logic algorithms was being reversed on the fly faster than quantum computations could handle. It was like the moment they tried to poke their noses into the Avaeon’s systems it backfired to the effect it exposed them despite of their stealth. The harder the UDW tried to regain control the more chaotic the ongoing attack became as there was no constant for them to get their bearings on. It was like a game that kept changing the rules whenever their A.I.s thought it had the advantage to strip away any hope to stop it. Before the Stalker and her contingent knew it the Moon Hawk and Trykor’s crew knew exactly where to find them as if they copied their address right down to the whiskers to nullify their stealth. Commander Rone and her weapons team snapped off tachyon and free range particle disruptors to overload the stealth fields then popped out of range to avoid retaliation and relayed targeting data to one of the swarmer carriers materializing into real space.

The swarmer carriers, “Morrow’s Influence” and “Puppet Master” loitered in warps space until they gain an opportunity to unleash their deadly platforms. Both ships timed the stealth corvettes response carefully by firing a meson disruption beam to leech their energy by stripping all electronic activity of the target vessels to leave them vulnerable for the swarmers to eviscerate them with impunity. They each positioned themselves in Knife and Arrow’s rear flanks to unleashed swarmers: horrific starfish-esque shaped entities that “swam” across the void in a nightmarish jellyfish-like fashion it could be as well surrealistic by the way they moved without any engine trials save for menacing red glowing tendrils that flowed behind them. These menacing entities clung to the hulls and “ate” their way through like so many scarabs through rotten flesh using their raw antimatter tendrils and ‘maws’ to chew through. Nothing of the synthetic or organic nature controlled them for something much more alien directed these vicious entities which made hacking them something to the hopeful imagination of the UDW.

The two swarmer carriers dealt with the corvettes, Commander Rone of the Trykor took the opportunity to sync up with her weapons officers to attack the Striker. The frigate popped around using her interialess drives to literally run circles around the UDW frigate once her stealth was nullified by her initial attacks. Avaeon warships lacked visible weapon ports to portray any sort of report such as a flare, beam, pulse or ball of fire let alone leave anyone to guess where exactly the destructive force originated only it played havoc on the Striker’s shields and cracked opened her Luminate plates.

In the mean time the Moon Hawk darted for the Commitment and Patience’s by bobbing and weaving out of her forward firing arcs, using the interialess drives to full advantage as Commander Nilus calculated the movement speed of the PAC’s tracking fields to avoid its main weapons literally dancing with it like an orox wrangler.
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