Reporting on a rather impressive victory, on our side.
As I broke away from the Maltese orbital docking array, I found that a conflict was occuring between the tattered remnants of several of our secondary fleet planetary defense wings, and at least 8 Corsair capital vessels (an even mix of Legates and Osiris-class warships).
Seeing as several fighters were closing in on me, I decided to simply dive right in.
We first struck at a Legate known as the CNS-Phaeton. It was heavily armored, and it took quite awhile to cripple it. However, after a combined fighter and bomber assault (myself, obviously, included) the thing was rather close to a total collapse. A well-placed antimatter pulse from my vessel sent it's core into a disastrous meltdown, which tore the vessel to bits.
It was at this point that a high-ranking Corsair called out for a retreat, facing the fact that our skilled snubcraft easily outmatched their lumbering behemoths. However, several of their bombers, an Osiris, and a Praetorian foolishly stayed behind. We made short work of the Osiris, prompting the secondary retreat of both the Praetorian and all but two of their bombers.
One of the bombers, perhaps out of ludicrous fear, dove down into Malta's atmosphere, tearing apart his ship as it careened through the atmosphere. No debris was reported as landing. The second was chased off by several fighter pilots.
With that, seeing as we had successfully repelled the Corsairs, I opted to dock.