Location: california system, 70k from the magellan jumpgate.
The wreckage from the escorts floated into a slowly expanding cloud.
The cruiser's tractor beam activated every so often, pulling engine parts and debris into it's hold, where a group of robots sifted through it.
They carried the still usable or repairable parts away through the empty corridors towards engineering and the maintaince workshops.
The crew had been unprepared for what had happened after the last cruiser exploded.
It started first in engineering, the massively armoured robots that had been built to service and repair the main reactor, suddenly activated and formed into a moving wall that forced the crew out of engineering.
The General ordered the entire crew to report to the ship's armoury and equip themselves with heavier weapons, however the armoury lock wouldn't open and then all the other robots started forming mobile walls.
In the end the entire crew were forced into the main access corridor and slowly forced down to the mid-ship station access hatches, then they opened and the entire crew were sucked out of the ship.
After several hours they formed a grotesque chain around the cruiser.
