Despite the impact, the other ship was still flying, though it was worse for wear than Light’s. A few pieces of their ship were torn from the hull and dropped to the planet below, but it still managed a relatively quick turn to follow Light’s path. His sensors showed them lining up behind his ship...then simply lingering. For about ten seconds they followed, with neither a hail nor a shot fired, during which time they likely ran their own damage assessment. During the impact, Light had struck their ship’s primary, and only, weapon. 

“Looks like they’re breaking off.” Jess’ voice chimed in through their comm channel. She had not gone up to the cockpit, but instead had instead strapped herself in to the first seat she had been able to reach before they launched. The acceleration, and the impact, had rattled her, but she had been secured. She was patched in to the ship’s computer and was following along through its sensor readouts. “I don’t know if you’re that good, or just that lucky Light, but let’s get out of here before that luck gets tested again. Here’s the coordinates for the system we need to head to. It’s on the way back to Korit, about a day away from here. We’re heading to an asteroid orbiting the star, between the second and third planet in the system.”

The star system Jess had marked for them was uninhabited, and of little interest to any major power. It had no habitable planets, no strategic position, and no remarkable quantities or types of resources. Such places were perfect for outlaws, or any others who needed a secret outpost or base, as finding them by chance was like finding a needle in the largest haystack imaginable.