Instrument of Vengeance
The fight gradually entered a heated stage. The two fleets started to get close enough to enable a measure of precision and focus from both sides!
The damage continued to pile up until the ships in question started to suffer more serious damage!
In order to prevent the incoming attacks from concentrating the damage on weak points, the vessels continually changed their orientation.
This made it considerably more difficult to launch successive attacks on vulnerable sections.
However, the pakklaton ships were less capable of employing this tactic due to the damage they had already sustained. The wounds sustained in previous battles along with the incredibly persistent infestation of voribugs severely affected their mobility.
The most immediate consequence of that was that they were considerably easier to damage!
After piling up damage on two of the nine alien warships, the alien fleet finally displayed true vulnerability.