Aboard the mighty Kodiak 2 capital ship, Admiral James Anchor gets an update from fleet officer Emma: most of the Zozian ships are either dead or have escaped the prison planet system. Gerald, at the helm, reports that the Kodiak is in position for the main cannon, a railgun so massive and powerful that to aim it, they have to rotate the whole ship! James gives the order to get it ready to fire, and Jason immediately gets the final preparations underway.
Before the Kodiak can fire, Queen Elcyra’s Varanus ship unleashes a withering laser blast which slices the starboard wing! Seamus gives a rapid damage report: the hull is breached right through the whole ship! Also, the rotational cannon controls are offline ship-wide! Until they can be swapped to the redundant control systems, they’re unable to fire!
The main cannon, however, was unaffected by the massive explosion, and Jason reports that during the chaos, his crew finished the massive energy ramp-up required to fire the weapon. James gives the order and the incredibly powerful quad-railgun unleashes its shells at sizeable fraction of the speed of light! The force is powerful enough that they manage to penetrate the powerful shields protecting the Varanus, and they score a direct hit on her port laser array! There’s a huge explosion as the entire array is obliterated!

The battle against the Clonoid garrison rages all around the prison planet! Even though the Zernabian fleet is light, the fighting is ferocious. James Anchor’s Kodiak takes on the largest Zernabian capital ship directly, and after a direct hit from the dorsal railgun, the Zernabian ship explodes! Firing superheated shells at relativistic speeds is marvelously effective!

A few sectors are having a harder time clearing the orbital opposition, but after some judicious redeployment, the Zozian position is secured. Landing transports begin their decent to the surface while the larger cargo ships like Ramesh’s Vigilant Gaddi remain in orbit to collect the refugees. What awaits the landing parties on the surface? Stay tuned, Defenders!