The ExMortis return.

[Corsair]

The Speaker met brief resistance from the shield, but his body gave off intense local EM energy. He slipped through, and hooked his claws into the hull of the ship. The escort didn't seem to notice. Ravenous hunger drove him to tear the metal below him apart and burrow in like a mole. He dug through layers of metal, electronics and fuel lines before emerging in the cockpit. The four crewmen inside screamed in horror, and each were impaled with a long, hooked blade. Blood splashed all over the inside of the ship.The Speaker gorged himself on his first meal in months, tearing four handfuls of meat off and cramming them into his mouth as fast as he could swallow. He almost didn't hear the escort ask for a status update.

"We saw some kind of meteor hit your hull. Everybody okay in there?" The Speaker let out a vicious roar in response. The Bounty Hunters didn't hear it, as the comm systems were off on this end. The Speaker moved forward to stand at the terminal. He ripped out the chairs that blocked his position, and began to operate the point-defense guns on the mining ship. The Bounty Hunter fighters were wiped out before they knew what was going on.

The Speaker looked around the gore-filled cockpit. A huge hole was open in the roof, but the ship's internal shield systems had stopped it from venting too much oxygen. The Speaker was unbearably hot. He had spent a long time in the vacuum of space, and now he was at a blistering 10 degrees Celcius. He turned back to the control console, and deactivated the internal shield systems. He held on to a bulkhead as the air was sucked out through the hole in the roof. The corpses and their blood were also sucked out.

When the cockpit was filled with a vacuum once again, The Speaker turned the ship around. Looking at the ship's travel log, he learned that it had originated in Kusari. That was the only place this ship was programmed to go to. He had no choice but to engage the return sequence.

The mining ship began its return trip home, with one life form aboard. The Speaker began to plan its next move. It was going to resurrect the ExMortis, and this time he was going to be the Overseer.

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