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with a green plasma streamer. The weapon was holding out
despite the fact that the back half of the ship was on fire and smoking
heavily. The lizards had put most of their shield strength forward to protect
that battery and Riona hadn’t been lucky enough to get a shot through the tiny
opening that was allowing the plasma to come out.
    So the Archon did the next best thing and kept
hammering the exposed section of the warship while six others were still
pouring fire into the massive dropship as it recalled the last troops from the
surface campaigns. Likewise Axius and Scionate dropships and transports were
pulling up the last of their troops in the face of a huge lizard relief fleet
that had come into the system a day ago prompting the recall. All of the lizard
bases had been eliminated with some residual cleanup efforts ongoing, but those
had been quickly scrapped in order to get the troops back onto the jumpships
and out of the system.
    The bulk of the Axius and Scionate fleets had already
left, with the Adamant and the
handful of Star Force warships and their drones providing cover for the others
on their way out. Riona’s TF was the last major chess piece on the planet,
given that she’d had her mainline troops assume the final responsibilities to
cover the others getting out, meaning there were still convoys coming in to the
big dropship even now.
    They had avoided the warship barrages, which seemed
more interested in killing the dropship than strafing the troops on the ground,
though the mechs had downed one of the cruisers on their own when it got too
close. Perhaps that was the reason they were staying back and hitting the TF at
range, but while they did other warships were scouring the planet and harassing
the fleeing Scionate and Axius groups who were putting up a good fight while
covering the evacuation.
    Meanwhile orbit was where the heavy fighting was going
down. The Hycre had long since departed, apparently having left the system but
in actuality had gone into hiding within it, so when the lizard fleet arrived
to face off against the Adamant and
the ‘small’ number of warships it had with it the lizards thought they’d
brought more than enough firepower to overwhelm the big ship.
    That hadn’t happened, with the Hycre jumping the enemy
at a very vulnerable transitional period between star and planet, hitting both
locations simultaneously and making several devastating attack runs that sent
the battle into a free for all as the lizards split their attention between the
Hycre and pushing down to the vulnerable transports waiting nearby their
warship escorts.
    The few ships that had come down to the surface were
nothing compared to the hundreds going at it above the atmosphere, and Riona
desperately wanted to be up there in a command nexus but that wasn’t an option.
She had troops to get back onboard and right now that meant taking down this
warship, which she tore up a little bit more with a mauler storm augmented by
the few missiles her drone fighters still had left onboard.
    As soon as she zipped past overhead a pair of wisps
fell in on her tail that she had to deal with, triggering a preprogrammed
attack pattern in the drones and having them split up and loop back. The wisps
were caught with four targets to chase and only two fighters to do it with,
allowing two of the Star Force craft to get in behind them and execute the
kills in short order. Riona had the fighters reform behind her and turned for
another run on the warship when she saw a concussion ripple move through the
atmosphere as something big inside the lizard cruiser detonated…with it falling
to the ground in a soft crash, bending it slightly on impact but otherwise
leaving the smoking hulk intact.
    Riona tagged the next closest cruiser as the primary
target for the 18 other pilots flying with her, a few of which had their own
drone escorts, and zipped off towards it together rather than splitting their
fire between multiple targets. The