Diarg, Captain of the catapult cruiser Firblog, arrived in the uncharted sector on the tail of the Mekhar ship. He still had his crew at high alert, weapons primed and drone craft in the launch tubes. However there was only the one ship that he could see. 

"full scan of the area! i want no-" Diarg started
"Incoming Hail sir"
"open the channel, i still want that scan"

The captain listened to the Mekhar about worthiness and tests. He tightened his grip on his command seat, Worth? tests? this was insane. The Gargan had been fighting the Empire single handedly for 300 years. No support, no allies, nothing and the Mekhar wanted to test their worth? Sure, them Mekhar had been doing the same with more advanced technology and whole planets of resources to draw from. Before he could reply he noticed the Mekhar ship accelerate away. 

"fine" he grumbled to himself, if that is how they want to play this. he would play, briefly. The cruiser was not designed for complicated high speed maneuvers but what it lacked in speed or turning ability he more than made up for in firepower. If he had to he could blast a hole in the cluster of asteroids. So the cruiser started its sublight drives and moved forward, accelerating much slower than the Mekhar. As they drew within the range of the Asteroids several of the Mekhar small drones took off out of the asteroids and sped towards the cruiser.

"Captain, he have signatures. Appear to be light attack drones." 
"Launch drones, target with point defence guns. Our armor should hold off these attacks"

after a moment 36 Gargan light drones exploded from the cruiser and took off to intercept the Mekhar drones. The combined fire from the Cruiser and drones made short work of the Mekhar drones. The captain quite annoyed now watched as the gap that may have allowed his ship through started to close between the asteroids. "Lock missiles, asteroid 1, 2, and 3. prepare to reload and lock asteroid 33, 46, 81, and 90."

As the cruiser closed with the astroids within a few kilometers a punishing salvo of missiles launched from the cruiser blasting the asteroids away from each other making a hole for the cruiser, and peppering in exploded asteroid dust. It pressed on, a shield of drones around it keeping any mekhar drones back while the cruiser blasts a hole through the asteroids. A display of obvious frustration by a ship who could not have easily navigated the asteroids in the same manner.

Upon reaching the other side and drawing up near the Mekhar ship Diarg opens a hailing channel. "Now hold on a moment." he starts, voice obviously twinged with frustration "The Gargan, Void Raiders have been fighting against the Empire for 300 years[b] after [/b]we lost our home world. We have had no allies, no support. How does that alone not make us worthy?" Said the captain quite upset, like the hundred of years his people fought to survive, much less build the grand fleet they now have was for nothing. "My ship may not be that advanced, but we had to build her in space floating in a nebula. 6 Gargan engineers where killed during her construction from lighting in the nebula. If you want to continue your frivolous tests, fine. But! if you had been watching anything outside your borders for the past few hundred years you would have seen us fighting the Empire on the fringes of your space. You would have seen us growing, and winning."