Solution: Mine in a larger group, and blow the predator to kingdom come with a well-paid merc party. Result: Predator goes Q_Q and decides to move elsewhere, perhaps finding the motivation to go and chase down the lonely, unarmed and barely armored traders running the lanes, anyway.
Seriously, an escort or two and proper arming and armoring on your mining ships, goes a long way to telling a raider to stuff it.
Wide awake in a world that sleeps, enduring thoughts, enduring scenes. The knowledge of what is yet to come.
From a time when all seems lost, from a dead man to a world, without restraint, unafraid and free.
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