ted, because they're one place short of the throne. She can always lord that over my first born. And it'll show the _Siann_ how committed I am to the alliance, if I'm willing to send my _daughter_ to the house of her husband."

"Shya?"

"That's going to be her name," she said in a dreamy way, rubbing her belly tenderly. "Shya. It's a lovely name, isn't it?"

"It's very nice," Jyslin agreed.

"What's your son's name?"

"We haven't decided yet," Jyslin told her.

"Well, decide. I have to have a name for the contract."

They looked at each other. "Well?" Jason asked.

"What?"

"I want you to name him, love."

"Aww," she said, blushing. "If I get to choose, then I say we name him Rann, in honor of Songa's husband."

"Songa will be touched," Jason said, patting her hand.

"I know. I hope she likes it."

"Alright then," Dahnai said, clapping her hands. "I'll draw up the marriage contract between Shya and Rann, and announce it tomorrow afternoon. Right after I announce my pregnancy," she chuckled. "I'm glad I didn't have to fight you over this, Jayce. I was expecting one."

"If Jyslin wasn't here, you'd have gotten one."

"Yeah, that's why she's here," she chuckled. "So, that's business. Now it's time for the making it up to you."

"What are you talking about?"

"Just a little something I had made up for you, baby," she said with a smile, getting up and going over to her small desk by the bed. She came up with a small box and walked back over to them, handing it to Jason. "Here."

"What's this?" he asked suspiciously. "There _better_ not be another _mey_ in here."

She laughed delightedly. "I wouldn't do that to you," she told him with a grin. "Open it."

He did so. Inside were rings, two golden rings. One was engraved on its flat top with the new design he'd created for the House of Karinne, with the Legion Phoenix added to the Karinne crest. The other, smaller one, had the crest inset into its top in small glittering jewels, diamonds, emeralds, sapphires, rubies, and opals. "For you and Jyslin," she told him. "I heard that humans use rings to symbolize marriage, and I thought these would be nice ones. Oh, and your ring is your new ducal signet. I've already ordered a new banner with your new crest, it should be up by tomorrow morning."

"It's beautiful," Jyslin said quietly, holding her ring out and admiring it. She slipped it onto her finger, and found it fit perfectly. "Thank you, your Majesty. It's lovely."

"Call me Dahnai in here," she told him. "You're the wife of my _amu dorai_, you can be informal with me," she winked.

"That's not very easy for me, your Majesty. I'm a commoner, I grew up with parents who'd slap me on the back of the head if I _didn't_ call you 'Empress Dahnai' around them."

"You _were_ a commoner. You're Duchess Jyslin Karinne now," she said pointedly. "And trust me, honey, I may be the Empress, but I'm also a _person_. That's why I like your husband so much, he _treats_ me like a person. Sure, he knows when he has to be formal, but here, in private, he treats me just the way I like it. He even beats me up," she grimaced.

"You're the one who wanted to learn Aikido," he laughed.

"You don't have to be so rough!"

"Pain is the best motivation to learn," Jason said bluntly. "If you want to avoid the pain, learn. It's how I was taught, and it's how I'm teaching you."

"Well, I'm getting there." She sat back down, leaning on one hand and looking at them. "So. I have you two here, and my schedule is clear for the rest of the day. Want to do something?"

"Usually we'd jump at the chance, Dahnai, but I have to get home," he told her. "I have another meeting with Ayuma tomorrow, and I have to go to the _U.N._," he said in English, "to handle some planetary business. And I promised Myleena to help her with a few things."

"Ah, yes, Myleena. Can I have her back now?"

"I'm afraid she's mine now, Dahnai. She accepted a position in House Karinne. She's Duchess Myleena Karinne now."

"Hmph," Dahnai snorted. "I don't mind you handing titles out to others, but did you really have to take one of my best research engineers?"

"Talk to her about it, she's the one that decided."

"Yes, I should. I did mean to ask one thing. I noticed that she wears a gestalt too," she noted, pointing at the gestalt on Jason's face. Jason forbade the wearing of them by anyone but him off the ships, where they were necessary, but Myleena also wore one almost all the time. Like him, she was now so used to it that she forgot it was there. He'd feel almost naked without his gestalt. "I know there's a significance there. What is it?"

Jason just smiled. "She uses it," he said simply.

"How?"

"Well, this is Myleena here, Dahnai. She found a way."

Dahnai chuckled. "She is clever, that's why I put her in Black Ops. But why do you wear it? You don't have to club people over the head with your identity anymore."

"Because it's my heritage. It's who I am, Dahnai. Wearing this honors those who came before me."

"Right. Now, that's a good explanation, but perhaps you can tell me the truth now?" she asked, leaning on her side on the bed.

"What do you mean?"

"I know you well enough now, Jason. I can see it now when you're lying. That's not the _real_ reason Myleena wears hers, and you're not being _entirely_ truthful with me about why you wear it. So, why don't you be honest with me? I'd have hoped that we'd be past deceptive stances by now."

"The truth? I told you before, Dahnai, that's something I can't give you."

"How about an explanation then?"

"You'd have to ask Myleena," he told her.

"They're more than what my intelligence reports say they are, aren't they?" she asked intuitively. "They do more for you because you're a _Karinne_. And Myleena has a Karinne ancestor. When you told me she was with you last week, I had her family line researched. She's a Karinne too. And your Ayuma Indarre, she's a first-rate telekinetic, a trait well documented in the Karinnes. _She's_ a Karinne too, isn't she? You're gathering up all the descendents of the Karinne line, aren't you?"

"It's one of the tasks I was given by my predecessor," he said honestly. "I can't restore the House of Karinne without the Karinnes."

"My question, though, is how do you know where they are?"

"That's something I can't tell you. And I think you're getting too curious for your own good, Dahnai," he said, deliberately standing up.

"Fair enough," she shrugged, getting to her feet. She stepped up and kissed Jason, not very chastely, then took Jyslin's hand and kissed her on the cheek after she stood up. "Come see me again, soon, alright? I really want to get to know you, Jyslin. Jason doesn't bring you to court."

"I don't want to come to court," she laughed. "He doesn't make me."

"Lucky you. I wish _I_ didn't have to come to court," she snorted. "I want you here tomorrow," she told Jason. "We have another training session."

"Tomorrow might be hard," he said with a wince. "I've got a few appointments I'll have trouble rescheduling."

"The day after?"

"Now that's workable. I might be a little late, though. I won't be able to get here until after four your time."

"That's fine," she told him. "Have you been practicing?"

"Of course I've been practicing. Have you?"

"It's not easy," she laughed. "The guards are afraid of hurting me, so it's not easy to get them to be serious about it."

Jason glanced at one of the guards, who blushed slightly and gave him a shy look. "Girls, you're not going to hurt her _that_ much. And if there's no pain, there's no motivation to learn how to avoid it. Be more aggressive. She needs partners who will help her learn, not ones that'll just knuckle under and give her bad habits I'll have to break later. The _hard_ way."

_We are tasked to protecting her. It's hard to try to beat her up,_ the guard sent contritely.

"By beating her up, you're teaching her how to protect herself, in case something disastrous happens and she finds herself in a position where she _has_ to."

_True. We'll try harder, but it's not easy._

They made their way home on the _Scimitar_, which was now the personal vessel of Jason Karinne, his personal yacht of sorts. After the attack on Anya Suralle's yacht, it was decided that Jason couldn't go around unprotected, and though the _Scimitar_ had no weapons, it had powerful defensive systems and could hold out until the _Defiant_ arrived to wipe out any attackers. It was now Myri's ship, and she commanded it, where the Kimdori manned it for now. They'd even converted some of the labs into a comfortable apartment-style personal area for Jason and whoever was with him, so they spent the hour or so they'd be in transit sitting on a couch watching INN while the _Scimitar_ traveled to the stargate, and then would make its way home.

_That went pretty well,_ Jason noted. _So, what did you think of Dahnai?_

_I think I need to work out more,_ she sent, her thought tinged with envy. _I've never seen her naked in person before, just seen pictures of that statue of her. Holy Trelle is that woman _built_. I felt like a titless teenager looking at her. No wonder you like fucking her._

_Well, I could say that's not the reason, but that wouldn't be the whole truth,_ he admitted. _She is very sexy. She's very intense in bed, makes every time with her an incredible experience, and she's definitely the second hottest woman I've ever slept with. Now if I could just get her to back off with the sending, it'd be alright. Every single time, she tries to invade your domain, and I have to push her back. She's very pushy that way._

_If she does, I'll have to go smack her,_ Jyslin sent, bristling. _You're _my_ husband. She has no right trying to take from you what is mine and mine alone, even if she is the Empress._

_Well, don't worry, love, I won't let her. And even if you think she's hotter than you, she's _not_. You are the hottest, sexiest, most beautiful, most desirable woman in the whole universe. I'll pick you over Dahnai every single time. What I do with Dahnai is because Dahnai wants it. I'll admit I enjoy it, but it's more for her than for me, because she doesn't have anyone in her life she trusts enough to be so open with as she is with me. I also like the occasional tryst with Symone, I can't deny that either, because I love Symone like a friend, and I understand that that's what good friends do in Faey society. That's what she expects, and I can admit now that I enjoy it too. I even initiate it. And I'm never jealous when you want to explore your friendship with Tim and sleep with him, because I know you like him, and you like the way he has sex. But you're still the hottest Faey in the Imperium, and you're always first in my heart._

_Trelle's garland, I love you,_ she sent with a sincere smile, leaning over and kissing him. _You know, we haven't initiated this ship properly,_ she sent, her desire tainting her thought openly.

_We should do something about that,_ he said, reaching for the ties of her robes. _If I can get you out of this robe before we get home, anyway._

_Tear them if you have to, lover,_ she sent ardently. _We can just get a tailor to fix it tomorrow._

                                        * * *

Jason should learn to listen to Zaa, for she was never wrong.

The very next day, Miaari relayed the news to him.

The Trillanes were about to attack Earth.

Maeri Trillane had already issued the orders and dispatched her attack ships, and had managed to keep her plans a secret from the Kimdori until the very end, when they intercepted the orders issued to the squadron of 17 ships.

Zaa had warned him that his public stance supporting Dahnai might make him a target, and besides, the Trillanes held him _personally _responsible for their loss of Earth and the heavy punishment that Dahnai had leveled on the house. They had probably been planning this from the beginning, hours after Maeri was expelled from the palace.

The details the Kimdori had acquired weren't exact, but they had enough. The squadron had orders to attack and destroy the stargate first, severing all communications with Earth. That seemed stupid to Jason, since the gate personnel would see Faey ships attacking them... until Miaari told him that they had some intelligence that the Trillanes had procured two Skaa warships. The assumption was that the Skaa ships were part of the attack fleet, and those would be the ships that would jump out of hyperspace and attack the stargate. After that was done, they were to target Foxwood, the United Nations, and the main hubs of the farm transportation system, to cripple food production. The fleet had specific orders to find and kill Jason Karinne, turn Foxwood and the United Nations into a smoking crater, and to capture the _Scimitar_ for analysis.

Those damn Trillanes. Their plan to try to take over the Imperium was exposed and thwarted, so now they were acting out of spite, trying to kill the one they felt was responsible for that failure and also to deny the Imperium the food that it needed. Or perhaps this was part of a new plan, to sow seeds of dissent in the _Siann_ by starving the Imperium or making them buy food from other governments.

But the reasons for it didn't matter. The fleet had left Arctus by hyperspace, unable to use stargates else they'd be given away, and would arrive in the Terran system in a little over two days.

He had to sit down after hearing that. "Shit," he growled. _[Open a link with the Scimitar and have it contact Cybi.]_

The _Scimitar_, which was sitting in the Atlantic just off the coast, picked up his gestalt's signal and opened a relayed channel back to Karis, being the bridge by which Jason and Cybi could communicate with each other. _[I am receiving. It is good to hear from you, Jason.]_

_[I wish this was a social call, Cybi. I need the _Defiant_, _Resolute_, and _Sora's Pride_ in Terran space as soon as they can be launched. The Trillanes have sent a fleet to attack us, and we'll need them to help protect the planet.]_

_[I will issue the necessary orders at once.]_

Jason stood up. _Kumi._

_Yah?_

_Get in touch with Anya. Tell her to evacuate all her people from Earth, _now_. Tell all Faey civilians to go back to Draconis, _now_. Have Orbital One evacuated. And I'll call Dahnai and tell her to pull her fleet back to the far side of the planet, so they're out of sight, and _not_ to interfere. This is a private matter._

_What the hell's going on?_

_Your old house has sent a squadron of battle cruisers to flatten Earth, that's what,_ he told her. _I want everyone out from under our feet. I'm calling in _our_ ships. If they want a war, they're about to find out just who the hell they're dealing with. Zaa warned me that I might have to show my hand. Well, that's about to happen. They're about to find out just what the Karinnes were capable of._

_Just our ships against a task force? That's a little nuts._

_It's not nuts at all, girl,_ Myri sent from across the compound. _I've read the specs on the _Defiant_, and he'll kick the piss out of ships three times his size. He may only be a medium cruiser, but he's _heavily_ armed and armored. Add in the destroyers, and that's enough to handle a Trillane task force._

_Alright, alright, don't gang up on me. I'll get right on it._

_Myri, get everyone assembled in the ballroom. We have to figure out who's going to be doing what._

_I can command one of the destroyers, no prob, Jayce. But the _Defiant_ is your flag. You're the Grand Duke. I'll take the _Resolute_, and Jyslin can command _Sora's Pride_._

_Let's talk about that when we gather._

That turned out to be the way it was going to be. Jason did _not_ want his pregnant wife taking command of a ship about to go into combat, but Jyslin was going to be absolutely immovable on the idea. The Kimdori manning those ships wouldn't fight unless a Karinne was sitting in the command chair, and Jyslin and Myri were the only ones with any tactical training. The Marines were split up among the three ships; Jason would have Zora and Yana with him, for they would be observing and training with the Kimdori to operate bridge positions. Myri would have Min, Sheleese, and Ilia with her, and Jyslin would have Maya, Lyn, and Bryn. Myleena would be on the _Defiant_ as well, and Erinn, the newest Karinne, would be with Jyslin.

But the Marines wouldn't be the only ones there. Luke was a good pilot, and he demanded to go too, to learn how to pilot the big ships. Jyslin offered him a spot with her, which he took immediately. Tim and Symone were going to be with Myri, and Ian then cried foul, and was placed with Jason. The other members of the Legion started clamoring for their chance to fight as well, and Jason realized that everyone in the house was demanding a place on the ships, demanding a chance to defend what they had worked so hard to attain. So the entire House Karinne was divided up and placed on the house's only three warships, which arrived during their conference, three sleek, tapered ships that hung in the sky near Orbital One like deadly ghosts, the crest of Karinne emblazoned on their gray hulls in red.

The _new_ crest of Karinne.

Those damn Kimdori, they were always prepared.

After finishing up, Jason went up to the _Defiant_ in a large dropship with his complement of Karinnes, just one of many ships suddenly rising up from the surface, as the Karinne call for all Faey non-combatants to evacuate the planet was starting to be carried out. It was his first time on the big ship, and from the spacious, well appointed landing bay, he knew the ship would be very capable. Kimdori met him in the bay, and escorted them all to the bridge.

It was much different from the bridge of the _Scimitar_. The scout ship's bridge only had room for four people, but this bridge was more like a tactical command center. This wasn't just where the ship was navigated, it was also where all ship operations and combat aspects were controlled, a large, long chamber deep in the ship that held stations and consoles for 23 people. Some were ship control officers, like the navigator and assistant navigator, some were sensor officers, tracking tactical movements of a battle on a three dimensional hologram projects at the front of the bridge, to the right of the hologram showing the outside view, and to the left was the hologram of the ship itself, showing its status. It was the same setup as the _Scimitar_, and one he actually found was quite logical, putting everything one needed to see right there together and in an organized format. The captain's chair was near the middle of the bridge, with the pilot and copilot's chairs in front of him, and the engineering and tactical to each side. The captain did not control the ship via gestalt like on the _Scimitar_. Here, the captain relayed orders, which were then carried out. But, since this was a Faey ship, those orders were usually conveyed via telepathy. But the captain, being a Generation, would be in communion with the _Defiant_ mainframe, a computer so sophisticated that it _almost_ felt like it had a personality. It wasn't quite as sterile as the _Scimitar_ mainframe, capable of more complex responses, but it was still a computer. It wasn't self-aware the way Cybi was.

The lead Kimdori bowed him, a massive, eight-foot tall black-furred Kimdori male. "I am Shevak," he said, putting his hand on Jason's neck. Jason felt that feeling of _expansion_ that came when a Kimdori was sharing, seeing what Jason knew in an instant, the entire functional details of the _Defiant_ and the two destroyers flooded into him. In that instant, he knew _everything_ about the ships; their maneuverability, their firepower, their defensive systems, their capabilities and limitations. And what was more, Shevak was an Elder of martial history, one of the Kimdori living libraries dealing with tactical ship combat, just as Kerreth had been a living history of medical knowledge. In that touch came an education in the aspects of space based combat, a lesson in vectors, firing angles, angles of attack, ship movements, and fleet deployment. In that second of contact, Jason was given _centuries_ of education about the arts of naval warfare. In that instant, Jason became as seasoned as any Naval admiral.

Combining those two different things told Jason everything he needed to know to command the _Defiant_ and her two escort ships capably and well.

"Are you ready?" Shevak asked.

Jason nodded, and stepped up to the captain's chair and sat down. He knew how it all worked. He knew what the commands were to bring up anything he wanted. He had the computer open the ship's intercom, a curious device on a ship that was usually staffed by telepaths. But Kimdori weren't like humans, he couldn't send in a way that they could hear. He had to rely on the intercom. "This is Grand Duke Jason Karinne," he called. "Shevak has passed the flag to me, and I am now assuming command of this squadron. We'll be deploying around the stargate in a few minutes, as soon as the others are set up in the destroyers. That is all for now." He turned and looked behind him. "All of you behind me, take on the Faey appearance," he commanded. "Nobody can know that the Kimdori are doing this."

They all nodded, and in unison, every Kimdori on the bridge shapeshifted into Faey, even appearing to wear the uniforms. "Zora, take the co-pilot's chair. Yana, go to communications. Your sending will make that your best station."

"Show me where to go please," Yana asked as Zora scurried over to the right console in front of him, that a Faey-appearing Kimdori vacated, and as Jason got in touch with stargate control, informed them of the issue, and ordered them to cut all communications between Earth and Draconis effective immediately. The stargate was the bridge between the two worlds, and without it relaying communications through the gate and back to Draconis, Earth was cut off from the rest of the Imperium. Only local CivNet could be accessed, and what was more important, any Trillane spies on Earth now could not warn the house that Earth knew their attack was coming. The ships couldn't be recalled anyway no matter what, because no ship could be reached in hyperspace, but it at least kept Trillane from trying to distance themselves from the attack before it even happened.

Once that was done, once Trillane was sealed off from knowing what was going on on Earth, Jason had the computer make a call to CNN. It took them all of ten minutes to patch his feed in and record it, with explicit orders not to broadcast it until all Faey were evacuated back to Draconis. "This is Grand Duke Jason Karinne, aboard the military starship _Defiant_. It has been brought to my attention that a hostile force has launched a task force to attack our planet. As I'm sure some of you have noticed, the Faey tourists and our Suralle partners have already left the planet," he began. "I have ordered them evacuated for their protection.

"We will soon be facing an armed attack against our planet. If things go as planned, no one on Earth will ever see anything amiss, and we hope to keep it that way. Since we know it's coming, we're already moving into a position to repel the attackers before they can approach the planet. They can't jump directly within striking distance of the planet, because of the limitations of the type of travel they are using. They have to jump in a distance away, and we'll have time to see them coming and intercept them. However, in the interest in safety, the Orbital One space station has been ordered evacuated, and the Imperial warships garrisoned here has been ordered to stay close to Earth and protect it if the interceptors fail to repel the invaders.

"We know who did this, and we will _definitely_ be doing something about it once we repel this attack. But we not be engaging in war. Earth has had just about enough of war. Our retaliation will be more... subtle, than war, but no less damaging to the offending party.

"When the danger has passed, then the planet will reopen for business, and we'll be doing something about those who sent this attack against us. That is all. Good day to you."

                                        * * *

They had two days to get ready, and that was more than enough time. Shevak had prepared Jason for this in about half a second, and Myleena had been similarly educated in the way only a Kimdori could about both the ships and military tactics. But where Jason was given information about operations and tactics, Myleena was taught mostly about how the ships worked. She was the house's best engineer, and that was the focus of her Kimdori education. But the others could not be taught this way without exposing the Kimdori, and that was not something that either Jason or the Kimdori wanted. So, they were here to watch and learn while the Kimdori did all the work.

The only one that came close to being able to work at her chosen position was Zora. The cruiser was piloted the same way as the _Scimitar_, and Zora had already learned how that was done. So all she needed to learn was the layout of the navigation console and the handling characteristics of a ship the size of the _Defiant_. Everyone else had to be trained, and one didn't get that kind of training in just two days.

They worked at it very hard. It was hardest for Myri and Jyslin, for they were the ones in command of the destroyers, and they would be expected to issue commands when the time came; the Kimdori had fired on the unmarked cargo ship to save Jason, but they wouldn't command an attack on the military forces of another house. They would take orders to do it, but not give them. Myri and Jyslin received crash courses in ship command, but they honored their Marine backgrounds by acclimating to the jobs quickly

And time ran out for them very quickly. At 5 o'clock in the afternoon by Foxwood time, sensors picked up two large ships outside the orbit of the moon. Cameras got images of the ships, long affairs with large horizontal wings at the stern, and what looked like a semicircle cut in half and split apart then attached to the ship's fuselage to serve as the bow. Within seconds of coming out of hyperspace, the two ships turned and started towards the stargate at high speed. The ship's computer could not identify the ships, tagging them as [Unknown] on the tactical display, but Jason's Kimdori first officer, Shevak, told him the ships were of Skaa design. When Jason learned this, the computer updated that tag to [Skaa], picking it up from Jason's communion.

The ships moved from their defensive position at the stargate. The _Defiant_ moved towards the ships while the destroyers took up a new formation flanking the gate. Jason broadcast on all frequencies and in all known common transmission emulations, so those ships couldn't miss it. "Attention Skaa cruisers, you have entered sovereign Terran space without permission. You must jump back into hyperspace immediately."

There was no response.

"If you do not turn from your approach to Terra in ten seconds, you will be considered a hostile force and will be fired upon," Jason warned.

They didn't reply.

Jason ordered task force communications to open, which would also broadcast to the stargate, using a local threaded gravband frequency for tactical commands. "Here they come," Jason called. "Battle stations, people! Gunports open, bring up the weapons and shields! Myri, Jyslin, move to firing arcs, the _Defiant_ will play nose tackle."

_"Aye, Jason,"_ Myri responded.

_"Moving to a firing position,"_ Jyslin acknowledged.

The two destroyers moved above the stargate and to the sides, so their weapons could see an arc of fire against the Skaa cruisers that was more than just the leading edges, while the _Defiant_ placed herself solidly between the Skaa ships and the stargate, turning broadside and then rotating so the ship's belly was exposed to the Skaa, to completely cover the gate and also to allow all three of the primary particle beam weapons to have an open firing arc. Those weapons could rotate from their firing positions, providing a full field of fire on the side of the ship where they were located. With her belly turned towards the attackers, the _Defiant_ could fire all three particle beams at them. "Gunnery crews, open fire as soon as they come into range!" Jason barked, and that command was relayed to each individual weapon team that operated each weapon platform.

But the _Defiant_ never got to fire a shot. The two destroyers were ahead of the cruiser, and so they came into firing range first. The _Sora's Pride_ was the first to open fire, as a stream of white-hot light erupted from the sleek bow of the vessel, searing across space to strike the Skaa cruiser on the left on his display, going right through the attacker's shields. Their higher position caused the beam to strike the Skaa ship high on the bow at an angle, and that beam appeared under the ship, lancing off into deep space. The beam then raked across the attacker, shearing right through it, severing a large section of the quarter-circle pie wedge of the bow from the ship. Explosive decompression pushed the two pieces apart, and then it was hit again, a new beam hitting the ship almost dead amidships, slicing through its hull and raking across its slender middle, effectively cutting the ship in half. The _Resolute_ opened fire on the other ship seconds afterward, as the ship tried to turn away, and the particle beam struck the vessel dead center in the bow, between the quarter circles, and then ripped down almost along the keel line, trying to cut the ship into two perfect halves. The beam hit something important, though, for the entire ship detonated in a fiery explosion when the beam cut halfway towards the stern, sending debris and shrapnel in every direction.

"Well done," Jason called over local tactical. "Pull back to formation and"

"Your Grace, multiple contacts on the far side of the planet!" one of the Kimdori called. "It's a Faey battle group, 15 ships and a command ship, they just came out of hyperspace 500,000 _kathra_ from the planet!"

"Well, there they are," Jason grunted. "Contact the Imperium ships and tell them to get out of the way. They are not to engage unless the attackers get past us and threaten the planet. Medaa, get us over there!"

"Course already plotted, your Grace