On the bridge of the SDF-1 Macross, Lisa stared at a digital screen that counted time. It switched to 33 minutes.
"Contact!" Claudia shouted. "Bearing mark 32! Galactica and Pegasus confirm! Four base ships and thousands of fighters."
"Thunderations! When will this stop?" Captain Gloval yelled out.
"Launch all Veritechs! Get the battleloids on deck for fighter suppression," Lisa called into her headset. "Keep them away from the civilian ships, Roy."
In his fighter, Roy just rolled his eyes. "Right, Commander." At the signal of the ground crew, he launched.
Back on the bridge, Lisa turned towards her captain. "Sir, all Veritechs are launching. I'm not sure how long they'll be able to do this. We are on hour twenty-two now. And the Cylons really don't appear to be stopping."
"Open a line to the Galactica. Get me Commander Adama."
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"Captain Gloval on the line, sir," Lieutenant Kelly called out to Commander Adama.
"We're fighting a battle here! What does he want?" Adama called out; then rubbed his eyes. He slid his glasses back on.
"Repeat that, Macross?" the officer asked on the handset. "Sir, Macross is going to attack!"
"Attack? That's one brash captain. But it may be what we have to do. Get me Cain," Adama called, even as he took the handset. "Gloval? Adama here. We'll try to support you, but our civilians are our highest priority. We won't be able to do a proper offensive."
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"All right, boys! All squadrons; form on me and press towards their suppression fire line. The Macross will be following. Prepared to get out of its way when they are ready to fire the Main Cannon." Roy Fokker called out on the TAC net.
The Veritechs were proving their worth as short range superiority fighters. Their multiple modes and plain innate agility were something that the Cylons were having a hard adjusting to. Time after time, the Cylons were finding out that the whole flight characteristics would change dramatically when they shifted to their different forms. Unfortunately, by Colonial standards, they were very short-legged and unable to even lift off a planet under their own power. Dr. Lang was promising an upgrade that incorporated the contra-gravity that allowed this, but that was weeks away.
The Cylons kept pushing, as they realized that the fleet was not preparing to flee as it had been wont to do previously. The massive white and blue ship was actually coming into range to try and bring the attack to the Base Stars.
"Main gun charged!" Lisa shouted on the main bridge of the Macross.
"Target the lead ship. See if you can hit a second one beyond it!" Gloval commanded.
"Lateral bearing 132, mark 22.5 degrees. Two base ships are lined up at 100,000 miles," Claudia called out.
"Clear the fire lane! Get out of their, Skull Squadron!" Lisa called into her headset.
The Veritechs suddenly retreated outwards, leaving a large hole in their defense that the Cylons charged through. Anti-shipping missiles launched, this new, hated enemy that could jump with the defenseless ships would be destroyed. In front of them, the Macross's front was splitting. Energy was coruscating between the two pylons even as energy levels were spiking.
On the Galactica, Colonel Tigh looked over from a sensor station. "Commander! We're detecting a huge buildup of energy from the Macross. These energy levels are... impressive."
Suddenly the buildup coalesced into a raving torrent of nuclear annihilation that just erased all of the missiles that were heading to it as if they were nothing, not the light nuclear weapons. The first Base Star was and holed immediately, the discharge only barely slowed. The second Base Star was only clipped, but still lost two spars.
"Target one destroyed. Target two is heavily damaged. Six Cylons have breached our perimeter! We have incoming! I'm detecting multiple nuclear weapons!" Lisa shouted.
"Shoot those missiles down!" Gloval thundered.
The Destroids on the outside of the Macross laid out a heavy suppress fire, taking out all the missiles, though just barely! The last one exploded only hundred of feet from the Macross.
"Thy Cylons are retreating." Lisa paused as he listened to something from her headset. "Sir! I've got Dr. Lang on the line. He says that the new conduits are damaged. They couldn't handle the full power for the Main Cannon. The Fold Generators will require repair before we can move on."
"Tell him that has absolute priority. Launch reconnaissance birds and have them start scanning for Cylon activity."
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