As the perusing of attacking Rebel defenses still perused, the Republic’s largest Battleship was to descent from Earth’s atmosphere and join up with 10 Delta Viking light Mobile carriers. Before densest, the Overlord sent a team of 5 NR scouts out to scout the near by fallen colony of the old century.
However, they where engaged before for they could head back. They could only hold off what they thought where to be Celestial Being Mobile Suits for a period of time to only have the Overlord make it past the Earth’s atmosphere. The 5 scouts where destroyed within a 24 minute period