Drakador_Chaos
The damaged ship ignored the warnings and activated its FTL drive. What happens next unfolds in a matter of microseconds.
As the individual drive modules throughout the ship begin to lift it out of realspace, the failsafe attempts and fails to abort the process. This, in turn, causes the drive fields to fail to properly synchronize. The resultant effect leaves the ship encased in five different FTL bubbles, all with varying speeds and levels of energy attached to them, while parts of the ship are outside any field whatsoever. From the outside, all one sees is a horrifically blinding flash of light as the ship vanishes and anything in its flight path for several AU vaporizes, as the unstable bubbles shed pieces of the ship that emerge into realspace at relativistic velocities, carrying several gigatons of energy apiece. The effect persists even a good way outside the borders of Cult-space, making FTL travel extremely dangerous and perhaps impossible for months to come.
The other corvette, blissfully unaware of what just happened, sees the asteroid, and initiates a full engine burn towards it, gearing up for a fight.
Raider
"This is the High Imperium. We will come and assist...for a price."