Aurelian reviewed the fleet composition briefly when Merrick forwarded it, and it matched what the mission packet had warned him: a strike group built around Tier III ships with an uneven spread of older escorts and a few veteran captains, plus two commanders whose bonded shipgirls were strong for a local sector but not the kind of power that made the Omnics retreat in defeat.
They were the kind of fleet that could hold a line using their bodies, and the kind of fleet that needed someone like Astra to keep the Omnics from just ramming through it with large numbers of bot fighters.
