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"Two... one... jump"

The Nova Wolf made the mistake in assuming that the Nighthawk was being manned as a normal vessel, relying on automated computer tracking systems and crew members passing reports from one to another. Unfortunately they would find that the entirety of the ship was currently at the figurative fingertips of Whisper. No delay from orders passing hands were necessary, no locking on of automated systems were necessary. All that was necessary was the real time impulses that went through Whisper's consciousness which currently existed and functioned as an entity of pure psionic force free of the limitations of her physical body.

The missile never stood a chance of reaching its target. Even if the Nova Wolf managed to break off from the Harbinger of Piety in under five seconds - which was an impossibility given how much combat and dialogue had transpired - close the gap to reach the Nighthawk, light it up with tachyons and free particle arrays to overload its cloaking systems, and get the missile off, all before the ship jumped, Whisper's consciousness would snap taut like a rubber band the moment she felt a foreign object closing in on the ship at high speeds.

Had the Nova Wolf engaged the Nighthawk before it had gotten such a lead on them, rather than engaging the Harbinger of Piety, they might have had time to disrupt the FTL jump, but as it stood, there simply wasn't time enough. If by some anomaly the missile did manage to get fired off, Whisper was well able to collapse her consciousness in upon the missile to detonate it before it reached the Nighthawk.

Such a feat wouldn't be necessary though, as a new ship had appeared within the path of the incoming missile, and the Nighthawk had smoothly vanished with its passengers all securely aboard.