Her Mass Reactor was clumsy by modern standards, but humanity – a species marked by inventing things, and then using those things to kill one another – had prepared for the eventuality of conflict in even the most juvenile of interstellar travels. The Athens had never been beautiful, but she had been a marker of human ingenuity, a testament to the achievements of a species in its space-faring infancy. Such precision could only come from someone who had an understanding of the internal schematic of the human-designed, decommissioned carrier vessel. As it was, with the couplings between the drives and the Mass Reactor of the Athens still disabled, the deep-space exploratory science vessel was dead in the water, a wounded oceanic mammal of some distant planet, as the predator lowered its head over its barely living prey.Ī GARDIAN laser began a relentless barrage into the reinforced plating, aiming directly for the aft power couplings that linked the Mass Reactor to the main drives. They would have been able to make a jump of their own. Had the mercenary vessel dropped out of FTL forty minutes later, they would have survived.
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