Conflicting Viewpoints

[Zapp]

Fear. Captain Eugene Debs stood on the bridge of La Villa Strangiato a short distance from Freeport IV and stared it in the face.

It started with Lucy Parsons picking up strange readings from the Cortez system while moving some pillaged Luxury Goods to Montezuma. Moved by curiosity, Debs ordered their course changed to the Magellan system. There, they went to Mactan and then the Freeport, and there it was. Mon'Star. Light Mortar after Light Mortar streaked from that large, obscene ship and slammed the station.

Debs was immobilized by fear. He began to voice the order to move off to Terence Powderly, but the words stuck in his throat. Finally, the fiend began threatening the ship directly. That propelled Debs to be able to yell the order to move back to California, and they did so before the large ship could turn its devastating firepower on them.

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