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EAF Central Command, 8:21 Local Time

Miranda stood in the command centre looking at feed from the battle over Neo-Earth, where the UAC stood hopelessly outnumbered after the Prometheus Corporation's betrayal. She was just about to cancel the previous order to send ships to assist the allied forces - her fleet wouldn't be able to arrive in time to save any of them - when the communications officer present turned and shouted to her.

"Admiral, I'm getting reports from the Fissure of a hostile fleet inbound in warp. A thousand ships... Two thousand... More just keep showing up! Putting the sensor feed through to the main screen."

The warp detection systems' readings came up on screen, and she watched in horror as now close to five thousand enemy ships appeared on a trajectory toward the Fissure. Too many. Warp signatures showed them to be mainly Sith and Prometheus, with considerable support from the Soviets and Dragonfire.

She shook her head, barely believing how quickly this had all happened. "Mobilize defences at the Fissure if that's not been done already. Retask the ships that were headed for Neo-Earth, and get battlegroups Eta and Sigma airborne to support them. Send word to our allies that the Coalition's foothold in the Epsilon Octanus system is under threat, and to protect it at all costs. If it falls, we've effectively lost the system."

Ten minutes later the EAF fleet dropped out of warp some ways away from the battle which was already taking place over the Fissure, composed of 82 Goshawk II-class light battlecruisers, 68 Mantis II-class battlecarriers, 24 Tranquility II-class carriers, and 16 Ashfall-class heavy battlecruisers.

Visual feed came through to the command centre as squadrons of light craft from the carriers approached the battle. Things were not looking good. The UAC, AIF, and AFOH were already engaged in battle with the enemy, but they looked to be having difficulty against the sheer number of ships the Resurgent Axis, as it had quickly come to be called, had fielded. The admiral winced as she saw how vastly outnumbered the allied forces were. It was one thing to see the enemy fleet on a sensor display as they travelled through warp, but quite another to view the thousands of hostile ships sitting in space as they bombarded the defences of the combined UAC-EAF base. Still, they would try their best. It wasn't as if there was really another option - losing the Fissure meant giving the Resurgent Axis almost free reign over Epsilon Octanus and all its resources, and that could not be allowed to happen.

Being considerably more fragile than some of the other Coalition vessels, the EAF ships sat behind the main UAC fleet at a distance from the battle, firing their long-range missiles and beam weapons at the enemy fleets arrayed before them. The primary targets were the Sith interdictors - none of the allied ships could maneuver effectively with those affecting them.

A secondary group warped away from the main fleet and headed toward the source of the laser fire which could be seen picking apart the Coalition fleet from a distance. Four Ashfall-class and twelve Goshawk II-class ships dropped out of warp near the Prometheus Corsairs which were sniping at the allies, opening fire on them immediately. The antimatter beams from the dorsal turrets of the Ashfall-class battlecruisers almost instantaneously vaporized one of the enemy ships before they could return fire, the second one having blinked out of the way just as they set their sights on it. The Prometheus ships had begun to react by this point, and started to return fire with their guns and MCMs while turning to try and get a bead on the EAF vessels with their fixed forward-facing laser cannons.

OOC: Enterprise, a response from the UAC perspective would be appreciated when you get a chance.