The ships had scarcely disentangled before Light was weighing up options.Another ramming action was unlikely to succeed, but was there a nearby asteroid belt that could do the job for them. Maybe they could lose their pursuer in the mess of mobile objects?

He began frantic evasive action before abruptly stopping when Jess told him they were pulling away. “What? Oh! Haha! Success!” He wiggled his appendages in defiance of the fleeing pirates, cooing happily.

“I’m very happy to oblige. Let's get out of this system.” Light signed off comms and plulled them out from the planet’s orbit. Then he plotted a course using the co-ords Jess sent and jumped them into FTL travel with another jolt.

Once he was satisfied, Light pushed through the mess of loose objects that’d come free of their mountings and went amidships. When he found the two of them in the cargo bay he approached boisterously with mock boxing jabs about two centimetres from Senjen’s face that he’d seen Humans apply among friends.

“I knew this old hulk could do it! We have the mass; nothing can stand in the way of that.” He eyed their prize greedily. “We’re close now; I can practically smell those credits. Maybe I will upgrade my suit after all!”