Sefrans-Tann studied the sensor images being transmitted back. Jorib Planet's powerful, chaotic magnetic field made scanning its satellites far from smooth.
The situation became even worse when she ordered scans using biosensors. All they received was endless static.
Left with no other choice, Sefrans-Tann ordered 200 fighters to take off and conduct close-range scans of the satellites around the planet.
This could lead to unnecessary fighter losses, but to find any trace of the Kilik Swarm, Sefrans-Tann had no choice.
The 200 fighters plunged into Jorib Planet's chaotic, violent gravitational field. Both the planet's storms and its powerful magnetic field posed lethal threats to them. Sure enough, more than a dozen fighters crashed shortly after the search began.
But they did find something. One fighter detected a metallic signature on a satellite called Nogu. After identification, it was confirmed to be a crashed Victory-class Star Destroyer!
Sefrans-Tann made an immediate decision and dispatched 500 Marines to land on Nogu Satellite. This was equally dangerous, essentially sending those 500 people on a mission with less than a fifty percent survival rate.
Therefore, Tann ordered every one of those Marines equipped with CMC-300 powered armor.
If Tang Xiao had been here, seeing the CMC-300 powered armor, the Swarm, and the soon-to-arrive Protoss, he surely would have sighed, "Perfect!"
The Marines quickly landed on Nogu Satellite aboard shuttles. They saw that the Victory-class Star Destroyer had been broken almost cleanly into two sections, its fractured ends buried directly into the satellite's soft surface. There was also a huge hole near the engines.
After some thought, Marine captain Ye Chuan decided to split the force into three groups. He personally led one hundred men down through the large hole, while the other two groups, one hundred men each, searched for openings at the fracture