Dark Places

The group of three in the middle crash together trying to avoid Lyle's fire, and they stumble.

Attacks eased against the group of three until Lyle's next action, i.e., once for each of you.

Y'breq's razor ring is still lodged after her terrible first attack so she runs and tries to free it.

Y'breq would be running into close quarters with three of them.

Emmett manages to get his metallic arm up as the beam weapons track their way across his body, but one of them sears a line across his neck where he failed to cover it. He winces, groaning with the pain but unwilling to stop his assault. He grasps his bent polearm with fury in his eyes and moves towards one of the creatures that stumbled due to Lyle's attack. I'll end up owing the little thief once again...

He moves to the creatures and slashes upwards, catching one with the sharpened end of the bent polearm.

Y'breq bravely runs into the thick of the the disoriented three and grabs her razor ring.

Emmett is up.

Emmett hits one, and the creature takes harsh damage.

The Craadians reverse their retreat and spread in, opening a more flanking fire on the insectoids. One on the end near Turana is hit bad, and the one Emmett hit goes down with another shot.

Meanwhile, the aliens caught in the middle, as if sensing their rotten turn of luck, chitter at themselves in a raspy, clicky way. Three fire at the Craadians (hitting two), while the others fire at you.

Emmett, Turana, and Y'breq should make Speed Defense rolls.

Then everybody can act in whatever order you post.

Lyle once again takes aim at the insect like humanoids- hoping his luck using this strange piece of weaponry holds out.

Emmett manages to learn from his past mistake. Instead of trying to block an energy beam, he drops to the floor.

The technology of this is so far above Emmett's head it might as well be in orbit, but the reality is simple: Don't die. Those beams make you die.

Aware that the insectoid closest to her could attempt an all or nothing attack out of desperation, Turana took her club to hopefully use it to block or deflect the beams thrown at her.