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back at his sphere, the morning stars were left behind to follow. Only
by closing the V would the enemy insure that the missiles would fly
right back through the sphere. Ikeprof made no attempt to communicate
with his pilots as he knew it would be too late to have any effect. A
quick wrist motion rotated the display to an angle directly behind the
missiles. The first morning star disappeared with the resultant drop in
shields to one of his condor's. The condor itself disappeared from the
display as the second morning star impacted it's hull after narrowly
missing one of the bombers.

Ikeprof quickly surveyed his assets. 5 bombers with less than half full
missile racks, one condor with 3 PWD's and one condor with 2 missiles
and no pwd's. The condors had no flashfires and would be quickly
overtaken by the enemy bombers. His 3 scouts were maintaining a
circular flight pattern around the main battle area while keeping away
from the enemy scout craft doing the same thing. Somewhere out there
was his counterpart also motionless in space, cloaked and defenseless,
coordinating the enemy forces.