Project: New Iridium Mine

[Genesis Research Group]

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Omicron Chi.
Not the most hospitable system in the Omicrons, especially with the high presence of Artificial Intelligence vessels around the moon we spotted, Malekula. A real interesting xenoarchaeological find, which we could start studying alongside Order, as they own the installation near it.
But this wasn't the objective; the objective was to start the mining operations there.
After the jump within the system, the Ziz team re-entered in tight formation and set course to the Sanma Nebula.

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The situation was quiet. No vessels found on their way towards the Nebula.
They were at cruise speed, and tracking their way in order to use it for future transportation routes, as it could be very useful for the transports. But when they thought that it was a safe way, a dozen nomad vessels appeared from nowhere.
The captains of the bigger vessels got taken by surprise, as all the group was circled by the alien vessels. So they start going all the battle mode.
Luckily shields were all up, as they needed time to prepare the weaponry in order to start responding the fire. So the battle began.
The escorts started separating in order to deal more damage to the vessels that tried to focus on the bigger ones. As it seems that the bigger vessels were their target. So in order to preserve the mining vessels, the battletransports started to draw fire on them. They were the miners' shields.
What the pilots could notice, is how tough those battletransports were, but they weren't invincible.
Slowly the nomadic force started to go down, one by one. But this time damage was caused. the transports were not in very good shape, no big breaches, but they suffered enough damage to make them think twice before fighting again; the mining vessels suffered minor hull damage, but not any type of breaches like on the transports, while the fighter wings suffered the less damage, as they were not the target of the nomadic force.
But while the engineers on the battletransports fixed the breaches, they were moving towards the Nebula, now very close to them.