Surface Tension
Commander Chase's handsome visage occupied Eva's comms display. He was certainly finely-chiseled and a man of discipline. She was always glad to see him onscreen.
"I'm not interrupting you, am I?" he asked. "You seem a little preoccupied."
Eva shook her head as she perforated another bandit fighter. It crashed into the rocky ground below.
Both she and Miko had taken a contract to help defend a small planetary colony in a nearby system. The colony had been constantly getting hounded by bandits, and so the two of them decided to chip in their expertise.
They helped the colony's marshal to repel a number of attacks, then subsequently went on the offensive and attacked the bandit's base of operations.
The two of them were currently in the process of dismantling whatever was left of the bandits.
"Just doing a little cleanup, that's all," she replied. "It'll be over in a few, don't worry."