We're getting there. Patience, Kaz.

Selantrio winced inwardly as he viewed the battle that raged between the Raxilians and Beren's army, the Deathstorm Fleet. The Fleet had the advantage of numbers but the Raxilians all were ace pilots, decimating the Fleet. The Kronans fared worse than the hired mercenaries, their quick reflexes eclipsed by their slow mental processes. Many of them were not good pilots by any standard although the few who were avoided the better Raxilians like the plague. Selantrio knew that Beren's decision to consider Raxizil pacified and to remove the Nightdweller was a mistake - it had released the resistance from the Nightdweller's oppression. How they had known that Beren would be here - over Keenrei - was beyond him.
But even as he watched he saw the black ship Assassin in the midst of the fight, and knew that the Carrotan mercenary was not on Beren's side, unlike the other mercenaries that had been hired to fight. Where that one was, the others of her companions would be - the second mercenary, the telepath, the magic user and the one with the power reservoir, the teleporter, the spy and his sister, the bird, the Assassin ... they all would be there. They had flown right into Beren's grasp, the fools.
He revised that thought an instant later, when he finally got a good look at both the Venomstrike and the Soldier of Fortune. The living skin had been slain, leaving the mechanical, steel skeleton. The life that had been clustered in the bows were gone, dead.
He knew then that they had not overestimated the mercenary as Pirelann,captain of the Nightdweller, had suggested - they had underestimated her. From the scarred appearance of both the Venomstrike and Soldier it had been mere seconds from the time that they had arrived and destroyed the Guardian of Venomstrike to when the main attack had happened and Soldier's Guardian was killed. An efficient, simple and effective plan.
But why go to all the trouble of destroying the Jakka Guardians immediately and then ignoring them to fight the Deathstorm Fleet, as the Assassin was doing? For even now no one fired on either the Venomstrike or Soldier. And there was something wrong with the scanners - there were five times as many ships on the screen as there were in space.
Very clever, of course - it gave them a decided advantage, for the quintuplet signals confused both the automatic and living gunners. He doubted that Coppertop was even in the Assassin - those open hangars were tempting for one who needed to get inside.
Fortunately for the mercenary, Selantrio could not relay his suspicions to Beren Deathwreaker, for Beren had distanced himself from his Deathless Ones, in an attempt to find the Fader called Venomarin.

All that just to say that someone figured out what Copper was up to ...