White Knights pilot turned the behemoth to hard starboard to get a good bead with the rail guns, the pirate ship Abbadon’s blackened hull was hard to distinguish in space but the lack of stars was an effective outline, gunners waited for the order to fire, Admiral Kolza watched the screen his left eye was starting its tic we knew he wasn’t nervous though this was his battle tic.
"FIRE" He roared, spittle flying outward in a slow arc towards the screen, the grav floor couldn’t capture it.
Drones spun out of their tight orbits and focused on the pirate ships weaponry, various light beams burst from the Abbadons turrets a bright thick light sliced drones in half and burned across White Knights hull leaving dark scars, the comm channels lit up with damage reports, returning fire with medium lasers, a bank of Spacemen controlled various lasers, one of them in particular had caught Captain Tezzen’s eye, he had already managed to kill 14 drones in the space of two spans(approx two minutes) Gunner Mekken was not panicked like some of the other Gunner’s while they tracked and chased with lasers and drones, The computers controlled most aspects of the combat, Mekken didn’t appear to need any help, He was almost smiling in his work.
The two giants battled for half cycle with neither gaining advantage until Abbadon landed a lucky shot on White Knight’s impulse drive rendering it unable to turn to port effectively, Abbadon quickly took advantage turning about to stay out of range of the rail guns while tucking itself into White Knight’s blind spot White Knight was unable to turn fast enough, so attempted to turn the opposite way, the dance went on for another cycle until Abbadon landed a shot deep in the shuttle bay causing a large explosion, completely disabling White Knight .
Kazzul appeared on the comm screen, he seemed smug and had a hook attached to his hand obviously referring to the old Urt pirates in pre intergalactic travel.
"So you see you are DEAD, now surrender that I may preserve your life and absorb your resources, further delay will cause me to damage my new ship"
Shaking his hook at the screen he looked properly threatening, but Kolza was having none of it.
"You won’t get a chance to absorb anything" he said
Kolza glanced at the self destruct controls, a tic was developing in his left nostril and lip.
"NO!" Kazzul pulled his patch up over his eye so he could look directly into Kolza’s eyes "Wait I will grant you and your crew their freedom" that was all he had a chance to say.
behind White Knight a wormhole had appeared, materializing from it a frigate roared into the gravity well of the uninhabited terran world, full thrusters and rail guns blazing Lost Angel had arrived appearing from out of nowhere the huge ship launched every beam and weapon in its substantial arsenal, focusing on the weakened underbelly of Abbadon, he closed in as if to ram, but instead dropped a slew of anti matter mines right in its path, Kazzuls face contorted to fear then rage as he screamed to reverse course, it was however too late, clearing the blast zone Lost Angel prepared for jump out of the system, he had no intention of getting caught in White Knight’s tractor beams.
"Haler STOP" Kolza spewed into the comm trying to slow Haler long enough to use tractor beams on his ship, anti warp took too long to activate and Lost Angel was the fastest of its breed.
Abbadon was enclosed in explosions and white lights of anti matter energy, Kolza had bigger things to worry about.
"Admiral one of these days you will know what really happened in that battle, but not today" Captain Haler’s face faded from the comm screen.
Lost Angel disappeared into the wormhole.