[Valaad] Valaad in Flames

The NW side faced a critical loss as the Ayame-class vessel began to break apart a little under Mishhu fire. It was confirmed the moment the FTL field on that side of the battle went out. With it went the moral of the many scouts and escorts as a many more got destroyed. Half the NW force had been destroyed now, and the rest were beginning a turn to make a desperate run for it.

The NE side continued to fight, it's Ayame still running strong and sending aether and torpedoes every which way. The escorts were taking losses, though.

On the NW, the Mishhu reacted to the release of the interdiction field by shortening their own, now only taking up against enemy missiles still going at FTL. The flanking fleet opened up with their Legacy cannons, hoping to pin some kills, while several other ships warped themselves in front of the fleeing fleet, waiting for the legacy cannons to have some effect before firing themselves. They also opened up with their SEPCs, and unleashed clouds of missiles, no longer slowed by the interdiction.

On the NW, the many fleeing escorts took hits. They luckily were small, though, and not as easy to peg. Thats not to say, however, that the many Legacy cannons didn't get any kills. No, it got many actually. 24% of the NW side's ships remained, and they fired torpedoes in plenty as well as missiles in some attempt to survive as personal survival instinct prevailed over Nationalism.

The NE side slowly began to move toward the same direction as NW in flight, although didn't abandon the fight at all.

As the NW side fled, a carrier quickly jumped before them. First out were a number of Mishhu pods, who unleashed a swarm a wormhole missiles, following with positron beams. As they did so, a fair number of Ghost Mishhuvurthyar followed them from the ship, phased themselves, and gunned it after the missiles and beams, hoping to find themselves inside the ships, and with any luck, some Nekovalkyrja shortly after.

As the 1st battle group tangoed with the fleeing Yamataians, the more heavily equipped group that had been primarily engaging them engaged its CDDs to put itself at an angle behind the NE Yamataians, much like the maneuver initiated earlier by their brethren. Finding themselves just outside the Ayame's interdiction field, the Mishhu battleships, all 9 of them, targeted the Ayame and fired their massive Superheavy positron cannons. Meanwhile, their smaller cannons, as well as those of their escorts, invested in the numerous escorts with their heavy cannons. A literal wall of scalar radiation also went up to prevent torpedo collisions, and an interdiction field to ward off the hyperspacing effects.

The NW side was beaten vaguely similarly like a Mac computer at a LAN party (Not that that would happen.), they didn't stand a chance. Most of the escorts were crippled by the attack, and as the Ghost Mishhu boarded and were detected, the escorts began to explode. Cores were overloaded, Torpedoes set to fire from inside the ship. It was better then to be taken by the Mishhu. Still, two escorts couldn't do the deed, and instead were quickly taken captive by the Mishhu.

The NE side, meanwhile, fairly little better. Power armor were floating about, their pilot's dead and the insides violently burning out as they're supposed to. Bits of Escorts floated about after their destruction, although there were still some left. The Ayame-class sent out a message from wence it came before it almost, ALMOST literally no longer existed. Instead fragments of the vessel floated about the void.

The remaining escorts made a last ditch effort, seeing the battle was lost, and charged at the Mishhu battleships, torpedoes armed much like NW's and ready to explode. Their cannons of all kinds fired, as did their torpedoes when they were loaded in tubes.

The flanking battlegroup suffered several casualties (2 gunships and 3 escorts) from the onslaught of the few remaining 3rd XF warships, but pumped out even more. As the enemy ships began to close into range, Mishhu pods released from the ships sent hordes of wormhole torpedoes out to their foes. However, unlike last time, no ghosts rushed out to help. Instead, only terrifying amounts of scalar energy did, following the wormhole missiles, and poised to do some terrifying things to the nervous systems of their enemies.

Meanwhile, the battle group that had originally engaged them moved to their maximum STL speed, intent on catching their enemies, and launching plenty of SEPC fire to make sure there wouldn't be too much to mess with once they closed range.

Meanwhile, on the NW "front", a bunch of ghost Mishhu did terrible things to Nekovalkyrja while they raided the vessel.

And as there could be children present, and because it doesn't really matter to the battle, those terrible things shall be kept shut in a book. And then burned.

Moving on!

The escorts were all destroyed very soundly, although made a large collective explosion from their torpedoes and the likes, sending little balls of Aether everywhere. The first causality of this sacrifice, though, was the last ship; A Yui-class scout.

The few still standing Power armors were either captured or destroyed, although the AIES killed the pilot regardless.

The battle was over.

Red team won.

The exploding aether balls caused some damage to the Mishhu, including stripping the top off a battleship, and killing a gunship, but nothing more than that.

The Mishhu had lost only around ten ships.