The race to Xandar was a desperate, FTL blur. Ronan the Accuser's flagship, the Dark Aster, a colossal, cruciform Kree warship now pulsating with the raw, violet energies of the Power Stone embedded in his Universal Weapon, was a harbinger of planetary doom. Hot on its heels, but deliberately maintaining a strategic distance, was Elias Thorne's Nightfall III, its cloaking systems pushed to their absolute limits, carrying his most elite cosmic strike force: Marcus "Nox" Thorne, Logan "Wolverine," Samuel "Argent" Miller, and Elena "Scythe" Petrova, with O'Malley at the helm. Lexicon "Vex" Thorne, though still recovering from his brief, traumatic interface with the Power Stone on Knowhere, was providing crucial psionic and linguistic analysis of Ronan's increasingly unhinged, power-mad communications which O'Malley's team was barely managing to intercept.
Elias Thorne, from Sanctum Umbra, monitored the unfolding crisis with a focus that was almost inhuman, his own imnse psionic abilities stretched thin, maintaining links with his team, with Namor (who was coordinating a desperate, long-shot Atlantean attempt to generate a massive hydrokinetic "resonance shield" in Earth's upper atmosphere to deflect any potential collateral energy waves from Xandar's destruction), and even attempting to subtly influence the chaotic Skrull intelligence channels to feed Warlord Kryll data that might draw more Skrull assets towards the Xandar sector, hoping to create further diversions for Ronan. His [Pri Essence Shard Reserve] stood at a tantalizing [4.9/5.0]. One more significant Shard echo, and he could make a ga-changing move.
Anya Petrova's anonymous warning to Nova Pri Irani Rael via Kryll had, it seed, been heeded. As the Dark Aster erged from FTL into Xandarian space, it was t not by an unprepared populace, but by the full, desperate might of the Nova Corps fleet – hundreds of their distinctive star-blaster fighters forming a fragile, interlocking shield around their dood howorld. Their courage was imnse, their technology respectable for a young galactic empire, but against Ronan, now wielding the Power Stone, they were moths to a cosmic fla.
[NOVA CORPS FLEET ENGAGING RONAN THE ACCUSER (POWER STONE ENHANCED). PROBABILITY OF NOVA CORPS SUCCESS (UNASSISTED):
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