You begin to issue orders after only a moment's hesitation, "Simo, stop the Golden Butterfly from getting away, then waste the Wolfpacks. Frank, keep the range open. Jace, get me a better scan of that station. I need to know what they are armed with soonest.

The Golden Butterfly's evasive actions are becoming increasingly desperate, attempting to claw as far away from you as she can while not giving the Wolfpacks or the station much to shoot at.

Franks first maneuver makes her situation even worse. The Aegis rolls and cuts off at an angle, putting the Golden Butterfly so that she has to give someone a broadside to shoot at no matter which way she turns.

The range is just under ten VU between the Aegis and the Golden Butterfly, but Simo doesn't miss with anything. He hits the Golden butterfly with the entire weight of the Sunsears' fire in an area the size of a small desk just in front of her plasma drive.

The resulting catastrophic explosion is tinted with the blue-purple lightning of a failed Warp Engine as what is left of the Golden Butterfly is sucked into the Warp with neither Void Shields nor Gellar field online.

Simo looks back with a sheepish grin on his face, "oops."

The three Wolfpack raiders spread out, seeking to converge on the Aegis from different vectors. The station opens up with its lance again, but the range is too long and the Aegis is moving to quickly. The two beams going wide by the comfortable margin of a few thousand kilometers.

Frank puts the Aegis in a hard skew-turn, diving polar south away from the nearest Wolfpack. Simo locks up the furthest of the three at a whopping sixteen VUs, and turns it into so much drifting shrapnel illuminated by the flare of a plasma drive containment failure.

The two remaining Wolfpacks, still well outside their own weapons range, decide descreession is the better part of valor and start heading for the system edge. The station can't run away, and its gunners seem to be getting their aim in. The beams are still nowhere close to hitting the Aegis, but they only miss by a few hundred kilometers instead of a few thousand.

You decide that the station is the bigger threat, now that the Wolfpaks are running away, "Frank, maneuver against the station. Simo, finish the Wolfpacks if you can. Jace, where is that station scan?"

"Jace here sir. The station has been up-gunned to hold a pair of Titanforge Lances, probably the extended range variant. Its armor shows signs of hasty repairs, and her void shields are shaky at best. It probably has internal damage from a boarding action and / or slipshod maintenance, if her exterior is anything to go by. Still processing more data at this time. Clear."

Simo turns a second Wolfpack into a drifting, powerless wreck as its companion makes a Warp Transit and flees.

Only the station is left now, and Jace's prediction of bad maintenance are born out as only one of its turrets fires, missing the Aegis by a few dozen kilometers. The other one explodes in a colorful display of void-born pyrotechnics.

Morrigan takes one look at your face and decides to cut in, "Sir, we simply do not have the manpower to take that station ourselves. We should secure the wrecked Wolfpack and call in the Imperial Navy to reclaim their station.”

Simo Interjects, "they can't hurt us either, not with only one lance that will be lucky to strip our Void Shields. I say we siege them down, blow out their systems one by one, and send them all to hell."