The flashes from the four nuclear explosions left Tina Forster’s aghast in her command chair, like the rest of her bridge crew. Seeing that the expanding clouds of plasma would eventually hit her ship, she gave an urgent order to her pilot.
‘’FRIDA, MOVE US SIDEWAYS AWAY FROM THOSE EXPANDING PLASMA CLOUDS!’’
As Frida Skarsgard obeyed her and pushed their gravity sails to the maximum, making the giant cargo ship jump sideways with an acceleration of 3.2 Gs, Tina opened a communication link to the CENTURION and gave a hard look at the image of Miki Kondo.
‘’Captain Kondo, since when do Spacers League ships carry nuclear weapons?’’
‘’Those were not nuclear weapons, Fleet Captain Forster: they were heavy rail g*n shells equipped with anti-matter devices triggered via proximity fuses. Gover
