Talk:United Aerospace Command/@comment-11135771-20141201151645/@comment-11135771-20141211181515

On Ceres, UAC personnel counted down the time until the ice clouds --now barely visible as translucent shimmering blobs growing steadily larger- would impact the fleet. Ships had been positioned strategically to protect their most fragile systems and weapons, while smaller vessels whose hulls could be broken apart by the shards were hidden behind the larger ships or on the opposite side of the planetoid.

"Impact in twenty... nineteen... eighteen... sevente-"

Several seconds before the predicted impact, there was a series of white flashes in space behind the clouds, signifying ships exiting warp. More flashes came, the ice clouds only seconds from impact. Hundreds of Prometheus aerospace warships were arrayed beyond the clouds, their main engine clusters pointed toward Ceres as they applied thrust to move away from the planet while simultaneously pouring thousands of MCMs armed with armor-piercing shaped charges toward the UAC fleet.

The UAC fleet, while probably capable of defeating the PC battlegroup in a straight fight, was positioned in such a way that their weapons could not aim at the Prometheus ships. The small point defense ODPs, which would be capable of offering some protection against the incoming swarm of missiles, were hidden behind the larger vessels to protect them from the ice. The UAC now faced a choice; stay where they were and allow the missiles to impact the unprotected bellies of their capital ships, or reposition to defend themselves but expose their vulnerable components to the incoming cloud of ice shards.