The three frigates find the 25mm autocannon on the other side of the Vendémiaires is just as happy to fire on them as the other one.

The Quartermaster leads his makeshift assault squad up the superstructure towards the bridge. Before leaving the Vendémiaires, he had retrieved flak vests for himself and his six men. They carry F3A1 rifles, standard issue in the Alliance military. The Quartermaster pulls a frag grenade off of his flak vest, one of only three kept in the ship's small arms locker in case of emergencies. Two of his men do the same with the other two. After a silent countdown from three, they pull the pins in unison and toss three frag grenades onto the bridge through holes made by the autocannon earlier. The assault squad ducks down to take cover from the coming explosion.

Capitaine Toutain takes to the bridge controls on Vendémiaires with a large chunk of shrapnel, destroying them beyond repair. He leads the remaining 57 crewmen, other than the assault squad and the men manning the autocannons, to the engineering spaces of the ship to holdout there. Nine of them, including the Capitaine, carry Glock 22s, the standard sidearm of the Alliance military.