The enemy attack to push us back was expectable, but the outcome was far better then expected with the enemy being halted after forcing us to retreat from several of recent capture systems. Some fleets were forced to travel through neutral territory to escape the enemy. To our pleasant surprise our allies DA launched an assault from a new direction distracting the enemy West flank. In this chaos we spring a new assault to cut off enemy invaders of Nisitin. While the new enemy reinforcements are wellequipped and prepared for our tactics. We instead focused our fire upon long range weapons no king them out to force the enemy to either retreat or enter closer range that allow our missiles and bombers to have greater effect. The change in battle plan confused the enemy fleets and many wisely retreated knowing the lack of intil will be disastrous. However, before the encirclement could be finished, a massive fleet gathered to end our advance. The Battle of Aces was to decide if the encirclement will be a success or not. The Battle began with the same new tactic in hopes of confusing the enemy into a vulnerable formation. Instead, they rushed into fighter range and launch a massive wave of fighters to force the Radiant fleet into a desperate defense. In response, the Radiant fleet launched their own fighters with anti-air missiles wave to create chaos. Hundreds of thousands fighters were in the space between two massive fleets firing shells at each other in concentrated attacks. The two sides have equivalent numbers of fighters, but the Radiant Empire Corvids proved their terrifying nature with weaving through enemy missiles, point defenses, and other fighters to then fire missile into command stations of enemy warships. However, the Ravens and OF were not able to hold their weight and slowly were being picked off. Until the MUFs were finally equipped and deployed. The MUFs now equipped with shields that needed to be chewed at with constant fire to break turn the tide quickly. As the fighter battle turned south the enemy fired shells into the swarms of fighters to eliminate as many Radiant fighters before retreating. This was the Corvids and MUF broke of from the retreating fighters to unleash one last attack at command stages of the many enemy warships now fleeing. The Battle was far more costly then hoped, but the encirclement was now finished. The new long front was soon filled with warp nets and mines. In the West, new reinforcements are organized wither the shock fleets to assist the DA from a second direction. This offense is far less successful then the Easter. Assault but has given the fresh troops valuable experience. With the early objectives of the new offensive achieved the Radiant Empire unleashed long range missiles to target industrial systems and the engineer corps currently traditional combustion explosives are mainly being used. There have been test of the effectiveness of acidic and toxic warheads on major transport hubs to see the moral and long term damage potential.
