“I...wait, hold on! Need to think about this.” Jess shouted, rather unnecessarily loudly through their radio channel. “A ship? And you said it’s parked nearby…” She looked out towards the cargo ramp, then around the hold. It was hard to tell at a glance what might be in the hold with the mess of crates that had been flung around everywhere in the crash, but that did not seem to be what Jess was focusing on. She had already seen the manifest, and she knew there was nothing there that could help them.

“Damn it, could be scavengers, maybe even pirates. Might not be too much of a difference, really. If they’re parked out of sight, that means they’re trying to sneak up on us, and I doubt it’s for anything good. If that’s how they’re doing it, then they’re probably coming over land, trying to get the jump on us. If you call over the ship, then they’ll know they’re out of time, and that will pretty much force them to bring over theirs too. Might be able to get out in time, but it’ll be up to you and your ship to get away with them chasing us.”

Senjen’s hand was hovering over his holster, despite the fact that there was still no signs of life anywhere near them. “You could have she ship set back down, pretend it didn’t detect anything. They’ll probably think they’re still hidden. If we can push the crates out to the ship before they get here, then we could just take off and get out of here without giving them any time to react. We’d definitely be in the clear then.”

Jess shook her head and crossed her arms. “[i]If[/i] we can load up the crates in time. That’s one hell of an ‘if’. Because if they manage to get to us first, then we could get caught in a bad position. If we know where their ship is parked, though, then we can make a pretty good guess as to what route they’ll take to get to us. We could find a good ambush point to give us the advantage when it comes down to a gunfight.”