Where no man has gone before...continued

As the vessel pulled away from Earth’s gravitational pull, and its 10 minute flight to the test zone began, a feeling of relief traveled through the bridge. Sovereign was to meet the science station Atlas and the heavy carrier Hyperion just past Io. If the Sovereign arrived at all, that was one test completed, the engines worked. And arrive they did, one minute ahead of schedule, not that the extra minute mattered. What did matter is what everyone saw when they arrived, and what they saw was half a space station and a heavy carrier being attacked by numerous large spacecraft, and there was a 99% probability it wasn’t part of the test (as calculated by the onboard computer). Part of the test or not, it was the Sovereigns job to blast the unknown craft, but first it had to somehow stop their attack on the Hyperion. It wasn’t hard to spot out the flagship. It was probably the largest and most heavily armed ship in the group. With pulse cannons on full charge and antimatter charges loaded, Sovereign hit the supposed flagship with everything it had.(to be continued...again)