boombox
...as the muzzlesmoke and artilleryfire of the Initial wave slowly started subsiding, one of the bridgeofficers reported something rather...weird. "Kommandant, keine Treffer bestätigt, bauen Sensorverbindung auf..."
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What he then reported was...outrageous, to say the least, not only were there no ships inside their immediate proximity, which explained why there had been no hits, but there wasn´t anything else of note nearby apart of a bunch of some debris somewhere far off in the distance, the reason for this became obvious only a few moments later...
Another Interdiction field had been put up between them and the convoy which was currently running for it´s dear life, before he could give new orders, he was notified that yet another interdiction field had been put up directly behind them, they were now restrained to sub-light speeds, light minutes away from the convoy, as yet another message was delivered to him...
Several contacts have been confirmed on the sensors, quickly approaching them from several directions...
Had this been a trap for them all along?
...in the meanwhile the ships which had been pursueing the trading convoy apparently had a change of plans, as their thrusters now went to full burst, coming into range of the convoy without issues, which realized in horror that their saviours did not arrive at their estimated destination, the opening volley of the ships consisted of an overwhelming swarm of missiles with high heat readings, while the missiles were on their way the ships still came closer, their frontal weapon arrays apparently charging...
Catplayz
...only half an hour later the freighter had been taken apart with a nearly unparalleled effiency, the leading ship and some of the assisting ships headed over to the cargoship which was now nothing more but a skelteon, stripped of most of it´s former euipment, once in position the hangardoors of the ships opened and the fighters started carrying the parts into the hangars of the waiting ships, another thing the Kel´Shir noticed was that the larger ships seemed to be pre-charging their hyperdrives...
FangTheCat
...the area they ended up in looked similar to the one they had already been in formerly, there was a small cloud of debris floating around a battered cargoship, it´s former escorts floating dead in space, though the escort ships had only minor signs of external damages...