Sthenys grinned. Normally, that assumption would be a good one, but not this time. He had convinced the Mentarch that 6th Fleet was expendable, and that meant they would fight to the bitter end. And, now that the Mentarch was no longer observing the niceties of past treaties, the Auxilians were a prime target. They were the soft underbelly of the Commonwealth's military.
One by one, Reliant troop transports force-docked with Agrarian vessels. Skybridge 2 pounded away with its impressive guns, felling one enemy ship after another, but it couldn't get all of them. The space around the station quickly became full of debris, like an enormous sparkling cloud. A few heavily damaged Reliant ships lost control and veered towards Lightbridge. They fell to the surface in tumbling spirals of smoking
