A satellite defense grid was established in geosynchronous orbit that consisted of 14 power ray battle stations that had a dozen power rays each.  They were spaced so that no section of earth would be vulnerable to attack as long as none of the stations were overwhelmed.  With each station using a hyperlight reactor, the radiation belts that surrounded the earth were tapped into to provide even more energy for the weapons.  So instead of sending a beam into various dimensions that was 10 gigawatts.  The beams were over 200 gigawatts. 

The ships out beyond Mars put up fierce resistance and managed to disable or destroy about 40% of the Alliance ships while losing mainly replicates.  The older cruisers from Mars took a lot of damage but inflicted a lot too.  The attrition rate was 70% with 1820 humans losing their lives.  The newer cruisers from the moon had a 30% attrition rate with 795 humans losing their lives.  The 2800 replicates that were lost were all manned by synthetics. 

The mines would detect intruders, lock them into the dimension they were detected in, and fire power rays and energy projectiles at the ships that were trapped inside energy boxes.  As hard as they tried to shift, they couldn’t.  About another 40% were disabled or destroyed. 

The final 20% of the fleet had to be handled by the defenders from Newgate and the moon.  The remaining space mines took care of a quarter of the fleet that remained and the battle stations took care of another half of the fleet.  The remaining ships were engaged by ray fire from Newgate and the moon.  Also, some small robot attack crafts were shifted from other dimensions and transported up into space to take on the much larger cruisers and shock destroyers. 

For nearly half an hour, the defenders of earth kept the Alliance ships from firing down upon earth in this dimension.  This gave ACE enough time to send starships to earth to destroy the Alliance ships before they could transport down troops that would have fought with the militaries of this planet.  The attack crafts were also handled by attack crafts from the starships, from the moon, and from other dimensions. 

No Alliance ship managed to make it back to their home planets.  Those that tried were picked off by ACE crafts and mines mainly.  What could have been the first strike in KBW 3 proved to be just a major battle and not the start of a war. 

Later that day, a baby boy was born in Warsaw, Indiana that would prove to be one of the most important recruits of ACE during the 21st century.  But if it hadn’t been for Newgate and ACE, the life of that baby might have ended before it could have started.