"...The alien fleet came in THROUGH the radiation belt of the system's gas giant. We assumed, rather arrogantly, that since our shields could not withstand the lethal levels for a transit, that we had a naturally occurring defense perimeter. The two automated sentry stations that were placed there to placate the more hawkish members of the Joint Command Staff were prone to false readings due to the impact of the rad count on the instrumentation. That's why no one paid attention to the great big signature that materialized from the rad belt, followed shortly by the lost of contact with the two sentry stations. No one noticed the 14 dreadnoughts, 18 battleships, 15 battler cruisers, a mixture of 30 light and heavy cruisers, 50 destroyers, 12 fleet carriers, 14 escort carriers and assorted auxiliaries until they entered synchronous orbit over the largest outpost in the outer sector of the system and started reducing it to melted slag and massive craters..." --POW Interview with Able spaceman three grade Kinison and one f the few survivors of the surprise attack on the Alliance fleet outpost at Raagren 6 that started the Bug War of 2022. Had not posted for a while (been buried with work), so I wanted to throw one of my POST WIP renders out for a viewing. Christmas card is done, so I will post it tomorrow. T4V&C