2160 uridum shortages have limited upgrades and new facilities since the last battle. A new, much larger Alien fleet appears in the Byrd system.
Invader 3-38750T Eclipse [50-Lasers] and 3-19400T Carillion [ASM Ship] class ships are making their way to Sol.
Based on other encounters i had a pretty good idea what these were.
Soon after, massive numbers of missiles were detected inbound towards Earth and the mining colony on Mercury. Military leadership decided to leave the frigate and destroyer fleets in earth orbit to support Earths defenses, fighter-bombers were dispatched. Ground and Ship based AMMs and point defenses performed well against the higher tech weapons, but were soon overwhelmed by the vast numbers.
I estimate 1600 size 4 ASM/Anti-planet missiles were fired at Earth and surrounding ships, and 4,000 size 1 missiles fired at Mercury. Both sides took heavy damage, ground based ASMs were useless against the beam ships, but the fighter-bombers were very successful in destroying the 3-carrillion ships and 1-Eclipse. Long load times eventually grounded the bombers. The remaining 2 beam ships moved into range, (just outside my gun range of course.
) and began to fire upon my sensor bases. At this point ground based ASMs became effective, and slowly were able to destroy the final 2 ships.
Final tally of the 2nd battle, 10 Terra-form platforms destroyed [ouch], 1 large freighter, 1 tanker, 6-fighter bombers, and numerous civilian ships were also destroyed or damaged. 2 ground based sensor PDCs, 1 fighter base pdc were destroyed, 1-ASM PDC heavily damaged. The mining colony on Mercury was wiped out, radiation and dust levels near 15,000. On Earth 8 research facilities were destroyed
and several other facilities, 200 million dead, radiation and dust levels near 2,000. Temperature on Earth has fallen -21.5C. Recovery is going to be a long time.
Humanity survived another battle, but critical AMMs and ASM need replaced, ships and facilities to repair and replace.