Third force

"I feel there is something we are missing, something we can do to stop those starships coming through", said acting captain Tashinga watching the second wave of starships on the bridge's big screen, emerge out of the massive ball of fire as it were.

"The missiles!", suddenly shouted Alex Bara at weapons control excitedly, turning to face acting captain Tashinga. "The Sandawana has an in built fail safe system in the event of an electrical failure".

"The gun crews can reach the missile bays by crawling through the ventilation shafts. From there they can then open the missile tube barn doors and manually launch the missiles", said lieutenant Alex Bara.

"Make it so", ordered acting captain Tashinga

Tapping the transmit icon on the console before, lieutenant Alex Bara began

"Attention all gun crews, proceed to the missile bays via the ventilation shafts and await further instructions".