The four fighters arced over the top and dove steeply back into the disoriented Republican formation from above. Wasting not a fraction of a second, Cathy and her detachment opened up with their primary plasma cannons in a synchronized burst.
Overwhelmed by the concentrated fire, the Republican energy barriers flared violently and collapsed. The moment their shields failed, the unarmored hulls beneath were torn apart, exploding into spinning fragments of superheated alloy.
On the opposite flank, Samantha proved just as lethal. She and her wingmen executed an identical high-G inversion, diving right into the rear blind spots of the port-side Republican interceptors.
Having carved clean through the enemy's flanks, Samantha and Cathy's strike teams crossed trajectories directly behind the disorganized Republican squadrons, locking the trapped hostiles inside a deadly, overlapping crossfire.
