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The blackness of space around Pramia would find itself home to about a dozen new occupants, dozens of flashes flickered in and out roughly half an AU from the planet itself.

The Command Carrier, Pride of Langara was the first to jump in, along with her escorts, roughly four 2.5km long Hastati class cruisers, two Hera class robotics cruisers, three Hesperides class drone carriers, six Athena class missile carriers, four Aegis class sentinel cruisers, and roughly a dozen Gemino class escort frigates.

They maintained a classic Aschen frigate line formation, with the Command carrier making up the rear portion of the formation of Aschen ships, the frigates making up the front, and the cruisers taking up defensive formations around the Command Carrier.

The only variation of this formation was the Athena class cruisers, which kept their distance from the main gathering of Aschen ships, each Athena cruiser were positioning themselves to provide long range fire support should hostilities break out. Each Athena class missile cruiser was armed with long range Thunderbolt missiles, with a single thunderbolt missile capable of wreaking extinction level destruction upon any unfortunate world.

Once the Aschen fleet settled in, Admiral Montrose turned to a flickering display of EVE, the new Aschen intelligence that accompanied almost every ship.

"Initiating surface scans..." EVE Chimed in. "Energy signatures detected... possible hostile actions... recommend combat readiness at once! EVE Called out, as she analyzed the events unfolding before her.

Montrose nodded, bringing up a large image of what appeared to be a frigate, with anomalous energy readings inside.

"We need to move quickly..." The Aschen admiral said quietly.

"Get the Planck fields powered up! We can't let these people escape! EVE coordinate the fleet, standard formation... bring all hands to battlestations!" Montrose ordered.

"Scanning... energy signatures matching those in Solis' report have been detected aboard that vessel. It is imperative we act quickly." EVE Added.

"All ships, advance!"

The small Aschen task force began to move into attack formation, accelerating quickly towards the frigate in low orbit, and Pramia.