However, occasionally, the Admiralty would station battlecruiser divisions in the process of working up in these systems, to reinforce the pickets and give them a chance to develop before sending them off to the front lines. When this happened, the incoming Peep raiding force found itself in a stand-up fight.
In this case, one of the first 'mixed' divisions of Battlecruisers (HMS Cassiopeia, Reliant II Class and GNS Trailman, Couvosier Class, Updated), was exercising in the Stranda system with HMS Barbarian (Star Knight, Updated) when four Peep Battlecruisers came screaming across the hyper limit, on a course to destroy an asteroid processing facility.
Time to earn your pay.