
Up until the infected Heavy Cruiser showed up and blasted the Bentusi ship its infection beam, the Bentusi were absolutely annihilating the Beast's forces. The Bentusi got a moment to shine even before that.Barber's Adagio for Strings plays through it all - the same song that plays when the Mothership was first launched, and when discovering that your world had been firebombed into lifelessness in the third mission. until the most recent arrivals turn out to be a fleet of rebels who immediately spearhead a charge right through the Emperor's forces, dying while clearing a path for your own final attack. The crowning moment in that mission comes as a constant flow of enemy reinforcements begins to overwhelm you.And you kick back the full might of The Empire, kill the one who ordered the genocide of your people and finally return to your true home.

The enemy managed to disable Fleet Command and you have no more warnings about ship losses, construction and enemy attacks (thus slowing you down), the full might of The Empire is upon you, the only help you have is what few ships the rebellion managed to scrape up and bring there.

These ships are different than the ones we encountered at the Khar-Selim.

Bridge Officer: The cryotrays are under attack.
