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Lantern is the callsign used by a squadron of Terran interceptors operating from the orbital defense network during the opening battle. Its pilots are launched into the fighting after the automated grid has already engaged the returning vessels.
The squadron battles amid damaged stations, debris, and incoming enemy craft. Its presence distinguishes human pilots responding to the crisis from the automated system that initiated it. Individual pilot identities and the squadron’s later fate have not been established.