Jack knew Vanguard well. He’d escorted her in battle multiple times during the Alpha Centauri campaigns and it hurt to see her torn armor. Air and wreckage streamed from her flank, but the displays confirmed she was already beginning to stabilize her deflection grid again. She had power, her point defense grid continued to fire at the main Shang attack, and she continued to maneuver. Jack let out a long breath in relief. He didn’t know Valiant but still winced at the pair of dead engines and the open wound that had been her flank. She’d taken the lion’s share of the missiles and she must have lost multiple reactors. The displays showed her deflection grid beginning to lose cohesion. If it kept up like that the grid would fail completely in less than a minute, leaving the behemoth hideously vulnerable to attack. Victorious and Victory were damaged too but their deflection grids began reforming as he watched, hazy shells of twisted gravity on his displays. They moved to interpose themselves between Valiant and the Shang missiles getting far too close for comfort, and he saw their point defense batteries going to rapid fire. They would do their duty, giving their wounded sister time to repair her shattered systems or die trying. Jack nodded his head in respect towards the two ships before looking back to Vanguard. The displays showed she was moving the wall of battle forward into a wedge formation, taking the point position herself. That took serious courage.
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