Nepotism

Senator Tovar's personal shuttle might look good, but it also came with a raft of defensive features! How could the shuttle of a high dignitary be so simple?

"Deploy anti-targeting countermeasures!"

While the shuttle pilot juked the shuttle in a random pattern, the co-pilot activated a raft of features, the most dramatic of which was to unleash a canister's worth of sensor-blocking particles!

The immediate space around Senator Tovar's personal shuttle became obscured in reflective fog. The tiny particles immediately denied most sensors and targeting systems the ability to peer into the cloud and fixate the shuttle's current position!

Ves knew that the sensor-blocking particle cloud wouldn't shield the shuttle for long. It constantly dispersed and the more it did, the less dense the fog became over time.

However, a minute after its flight, the shuttle released another canister of particles, denying the enemy pirate mechs from targeting the shuttle!