Ves had been too complacent.
He underestimated the remaining survivors of his brutal slaughter.
Aisling was a bona-fide Journeyman Mech Designer while Patricia was rational enough to stay sober during emergencies. If both of them were holed up in a mech workshop during a crisis, then they could easily destroy the entire ship given enough time!
Disabling the many safeguards of a missile and rigging it to launch only took a couple of minutes for a competent mech designer.
Who knew what kind of tricks the two Fridaymen mech designers prepared when they became alerted of an attack!
"Ahh.. this hurts!"
Ves felt as if he wrong his body through the meat grinder!
His terrible body weakly jerked back and forth on the debris-strewn deck as he tried to overcome the pain wracking through his body!
"I can't afford to sit still still at this time! Aaghh!"