Conflicting Viewpoints

[Zapp]

La Villa Strangiato moved quickly into the Whitney Ice Field. It had been a rather spectacular battle. Previously, however...

Debs and company met a Rogue Barghest along the lane. Sadly, he had to move on before the action happened. When it really started was when a Gateway transport fell out of the lane.

After demands were made, he told that it was a company ship and the company was, get this, broke. Eugene Debs, however, insisted on payment. Then came the LSF agent known as Fred Hertz. He made grandiose orders that, despite being outgunned, the Rogues should leave the trader alone.

Then an LSF bomber came, and all hell broke loose. The trader ran, and though the gunnery crew of La Villa Strangiato managed to put a dent in his hull, they quickly abandoned it for the more threatening bomber.

The new Cerberus turrets performed phenomenally. They cut through the bomber like a hot blade through soft butter, destroying it in under five minutes. As it exploded, however, the sensor operator yelled in alarm that multiple new contacts were inbound.

The LPI had shown up.

Debs yelled for a full retreat, but a CD slammed La Villa Strangiato, stopping it dead in the water.

"HELMS! GET US OUT OF HERE!" Debs yelled as the cruise engines refused to respond. Thrusters fired, and the ship began moving for Alcatraz. Just then, a freak localized ion emission engulfed La Villa Strangiato and a minute later they were quite a distance from the LPI and Fred Hertz.

Bunter Munter Hunter was fighting fiercely for his life, but Debs had no qualms with leaving his fellow Rogue to the wolves so that he and his crew might live to pirate another day...

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