The station's shields activated and the distress beacon was activated immediately as the warning of arrival was heard (sending a distress signal to Vjun, the Imperial Navy and Volusians), they were a scientific station with no aggressive intentions, these shields were strong, being roughly half those of a Victory-class vessel and so were barely scratched by the fire from the separatists so far. The fighter compliment was not launched, it seemed a waste to send his pilots to a pointless fate. The already launched scout fighter which was orbiting a goodly distance from the station simply gunned its engines and headed towards Volus, also broadcasting a distress signal. The eight quadlasers on the station, however, and the gunnery platforms opened fire with coordinated precision on the raiders, the turbolasers targeting the larger vessels and the quadlasers raking any who moved close to the defence platforms, also forming a storm of fire about them to discourage torpedo fire, acting as the well trained fire team they were.

The station commandant hailed the Separatists "The Volusian Defence force and Imperial Sector Navy have been informed of your raid. We are a civilian platform carrying students and scientists and little wealth, we are willing to negotiate terms of surrender. We are not a military installation, we have no quarrel with you. Such possessions as we have aboard our station we are willing to surrender."

The Caliph's sun took some rather severe blows while fleeing from the station's fire, it's aft shield generators quite dead and damage to it's quad laser rendering the turret inoperable pending repairs. It's part in this fight was done. The R-41's, still able and agile, had moved to concentrate on the other turret, loosing their remaining eight concussion missiles at it. One of the remaining Pinook fighters, winged badly by a turbolaser shot, spiraled out of control during a turn and was quite likely to impact into the gun emplacement at full speed.

The Toad's Edge had moved to fall back rapidly as well, not missing the opportunity to take parting shots at the turret as, slowly, all the attacking craft began to retreat, though the retreat would go faster once the emplacements were taken out.

The platform with the multiple torpedoes targeted at it took some damage, however, while losing much of its shields it remained intact as the quadlaser fire around it provided it with an excellent anti-torpedo defence, also, in lining up their torpedo runs would expose themselves to fire which would be aimed with lethal effect. They also continued to broadcast their civilian status and that they were not a threat, etc.

Equally any vessels in the area remaining would find quadlaser and turbolaser fire slashing at them.

Gun emplacements were described as having light shields and moderate armor; they were not made to stand up to numerous laser and torpedo attacks. The Gloom, having taken damage from the turbolasers more so than the quad lasers, had turned and moved out of range of the quad lasers, it's dual turbolasers and pair o dual laser cannons continuing to engage the stationary emplacement while fluctuating shields to where they were needed most. It had been said that a skilled pilot with a shielded craft could usually overcome such emplacements as well. If the Gloom and Toad's Edge failed to finish destroying the emplacement, the R-41s would swing back around and strike at it, but by now, it was quite reasonable to assume that the overwhelming firepower had taken its toll.

And so, with no further losses and only some carbon scoring, the Red Mynock pirates jumped to hyperspace, their mission completed.

And far and away, still out of sensor range, the Sword of Justice made its jump as well.

((you have no right to assume that Volusian Forces did NOT come. I control the volusians and had four days to post a response. Anything less is considered an auto and is invalid. Now if you will both please, edit your posts to include the volusian arrival))