Both sides knew that they had entered the final phase of the battle.
The combined cosmopolitan and native alien fleet had crumbled apart. The vast majority of the stealth-capable ships never stood a chance against the much more prepared combat vessels of the Bluejay Fleet.
1 arche lesser phase lord had already fallen while the 2 more were slowly getting devoured from within. The remaining 2 arche phase lords had lost all of their fighting spirit and wanted to flee from the source of the hyper nanomachine plagues as fast as possible.
The enemy small craft had been wiped out without any exceptions. The cosmopolitan mechs and alien phasefighters were quite capable, but their pilots were not as skilled and their tech was not as good. What was worse was that they enjoyed a minimal numerical advantage.
In short, 3 of the 4 asset groups that the enemy force relied upon to ambush the Bluejay Fleet and assassinate Ves had already been taken off the board!
