Fire

"Fire."

Unlike what certain movies would lead people to think, lasers meant for warfare didn't give off any kind of light visible to the naked human eye. The sign that the enemy ship had been hit was when its engines cut out as a series of shots ran through them. Their engines were obviously disabled, however, due to the lack of resistance in the vacuum the ship continued to move at the same speed it had before it was shot. Now that they no longer had the ability to accelerate catching up and boarding them would be child's play. This time you would be much more careful.

You couldn't imagine how they must feel right now. They were the first human vessel that had been engaged with lethal **** in the last five years. They had probably thought they would get away scot free. Now they were going to be punished. Slavery was a very controversial subject. Temporary slavery was accepted as normal, but to permanently enslave another human being for the rest of her life was controversial. Even that Lieutenant who had stayed with Suzuki was just a temporary **** who kept willingly renewing it. She could leave if she wanted to. Controversy came from using permanent slavery as a punishment for crimes. Being sentenced to that meant the perpetrator would be fitted with a collar that punished them for disobeying orders or even thinking thoughts that the new ****'s owner didn't like. In the ESF it was a punishment only used for severe crimes. You intended to see a collar around every single one of those bitches necks.

"Prepare a boarding team. We're going in."