Errowyn's Kawarime indeed came as a surprise to the Kuvexian fighters as '5' tore through the frozen blankets of gas leaving her free to pursue any target she chose.
Noticing the fighter of Jack Pine wipe out a third of the first wave of fighters the gunnery crews of the super freighter identified him as the primary threat to their own fighters. Every AA gun in range of him paused, reoriented to face the star fighter and resumed their normal functions with him as the target. At least thirty streams of aether bolts began converging on Jack in a desperate attempt to bring down the deadly ship.
Acting on orders from their flight commander on the super freighter, communicating via laser, the 6 fighter pilots who were seemingly headed for the ambush freighters had successfully drawn their pursuers into a trap. 5 more freshly launched fighters dropped in behind them, each lobbing scores of mini missiles in succession, a unified salvo favored by the pilots of the IKK. 'Fancy flying' would indeed be required now.
Araxie would find the surviving crew of the tangled destroyers armed and vigilant. While the crew's aim wasn't nearly fast enough for antiaircraft engagements she would find that the gold plated power armored soldiers were more than ready to engage her fighter. Three PA troopers moved to intercept her moving erratically to avoid returned fire as the sprayed aether bolts from their rifles. They were slower than her fighter for sure, but they were far quicker to maneuver than any full size fighter.
Meanwhile the Broadswords traded fire with the unrealistically shielded freighter. The vessel tanked every shell and returned with brillant beams of white hot aether from its cannons. It was at this point the battle was looking bleak for the Skyguard ships as the massive freighter drifted ever closer to them.
"Mr. Donovan to freighter captains, target is in range. Prepare to fire in ten.. nine.. eight.." three Caravan freighters emerged from the icy clouds, "seven.. six.. five.." the huge side mounted bay doors began slowly retracting, "four.. three.. two.." the freighters came to a stop, "one.. fire."
Hundred of rockets streaked outward towards the unsuspecting super freighter. With almost all of the AA batteries focusing fire on Jack the swarming salvo of EMP rockets had little difficulty striking home on the shields in an electrical shockwave that traveled across the surface of the shields, weakening their barrier across the entire ship.
"Prosperity Dawn, ordinance successful, reloading missile array."
"Blue Caribou, all rockets struck the target, rearming launcher battery."
"Belle in Red, good hits, prepping missile tubes."
The simultaneous calls went out.
The captain of the super freighter now realized that this wasn't a battle of attrition. Hatches along the hull flew open as they fired their entire battery of heavy anti starship missiles, 30 aimed at the rocket-spamming freighters and 20 at the Caliburn as 25 more fighters launched. As they launched the leading edged of the spear head shaped super freighter began to glow brightly.