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The Empty Box cleared it's landing gate with most of the other space craft who were tyring to escape like themselves. The small city was an absolute chaos and as they drifted up into the atmosphere, Alensi could begin to make out firefights between the mercenaries and the city militia. "Poor buggers they'll get slaughtered". Alensi typed away at her holoscreens adjusting the skips electronics and rerouting some power from currently non essential items into the shields and engines, trying to give the old bird a bit more steam.

Her com link crackled on "No, keep the weapons in for now; no need to draw attention to ourselves. But activate the scanner bafflers; let's not draw attention to ourselves on the way out."
"Yes sir" she replied with a hint of sadness, she rather liked controlling the ships weapons, not for the damage they caused but she liked to do all the equations necessary to aim the things properly. Alensi also got a twisted satisfaction of completing the targeting equations before the computer could. Regardless she had more on her plate to worry about at the moment. The scanner baffles were easy enough to activate but the shields required a bit more time, especially when she had to manually redirect power to them.

Then the small trading fleet broke the atmosphere. The small fleet arrayed before them was impressive, if deadly scary. Alensi even paused for a second, her normally collected self temporarily frozen. All the ships were unmarked but it was very clear who they belonged too. No pirate or mercenary could ever dream of commanding a fleet this big and the lack of markings made it known that this was a sudden attack. Whoever ordered this had been planning it for awhile.

Regaining control of herself she moved her visual scanners zoom in on the ships. They appeared to be launching strike craft to intercept and destroy the escaping merchant fleet. As if on cue her com link to the captain crackled again. "On second thought... Shields at three quarters and charge weapons. We have unwelcome guests on an incoming vector."
Alensi let out a little smirk, Strike craft always presented a little challenge due to their speed, "Thank you very much captain, All weapons are charged and shields will be reaching three quarters in 5 seconds, Strike craft will be in firing range in 15, lets give them a warm welcome."

Alensi looked at the now scattering ships, they were in a panic and going every which way. "Danmit there going to get cut down" Alensi reopened a com link to the captain. "Sir, those traders are scattering, and though I don't really mind if they get cut down, we could use them. Shall I open a channel to them?"