Vigor was reported destroyed moments before by the ground forces, by Alcander's team Sergeant in fact. That meant that the scheduled draft of cruisers and destroyers that was supposed to provide relief for the tiny frigates would not be coming any time soon. At the same time, the enemy had dropped a task force into system on a routine flight. The two cruisers and eight destroyers that had just arrived were more than enough to cripple the landing forces if they got through the protective screen line of the Lancer frigates, three of them were already lost, when the traversing turrets of the newly arrived battle group fired first. They engaged faster than the Lancers which needed to turn their hulls, slow their turn, and stabilize their centerline g*n on target in order to engage. Lancers
