(Hydra Star System – Outer Regions)
(Unnamed Asteroid Field)
The captain of the leading vessel in the fleet wiped the sweat from his brow as he realised what his target had done.
The mech that they were chasing had been hit by two tracker missiles but clearly their clever plan had been figured out.
Dozens of fighter class spacecrafts surrounded a mechanical arm floating aimlessly through space.
Inside each spacecraft were vicious pirates who were wanted across the Earth Federation for crimes that included murder, rape and theft.
But there was something strange about them…
The atmosphere inside each spacecraft was completely silent and the pirates slowly moved like puppets dancing on strings.
Their eyes were completely bloodshot and thick veins beneath their skin wriggled and squirmed as if they were alive.
"Sir… we have lost her…" the captain respectfully whispered to the figure in the middle of the holographic screen.