Lt. Jesse there was a small protest against AHA occupation on Veld that quickly devolved into a riot as the commander was shot by a sniper the sniper was quickly disposed of and the riot was handled by the first coming in and deploying tear gas and multiple pods of Rifleman to deal with the problem. However in the midst of the chaos Phoenix was taken by rebels. We quickly triangulated his position and I sent a group of commandos to deal with it. Once they arrived they easily took care of the rebels and located Phoenix, who was strapped to a suicide vest. Once it was disarmed they began making their way back to the base. It was then that I got the communication that Laythe was under attack by an enemy fleet. We quickly went to engage them. Once we dropped out of warp the battle was chaos we lost several destroyers carriers and heavy frigates in the battle the third along with Admiral storm arrived to reinforce us. The battle ended with the now reinstated squid who was aboard his space station firing a "solar death ray" that is what he called it anyway. Completely wiping out of the enemy fleet. The fourth fleet sustained moderate damage and acceptable losses. While the third only lost 10 ships.