>Let's shift our position slightly to see what it's interested in. If the unknown craft remains on its current course it wants the station if it changes to follow us then it wants us.

There is a moment inside your head where you panic, order full ahead and run to the jump point but you resist this panic. It's thinking like that saw you moved out here and if you do it again you expect to be put up against a wall and shot. You calm your breathing before speaking. “Helm! Take us two kilometers to our starboard at full ahead! Damn thing is probably an automated drone or something and cant see us” The ship at full burn slides to your starboard quickly the aging reactor being taxed so hard with the burn you feel the gravity generator weaken a bit. The Unknownship continues forward for a few moments more before turning its heading slightly to fly between you and the station to your portside. Your XO frowns staring at the ship as its heading changes and looks back at you with concern etched on his face. “Sir that looks like an at-” The sensor officer suddenly shouts cutting off the XO “Armored plates opening up! I'm seeing turrets with a hell of a lot of juice in em!” The magnified lens of the view screen shows the turrets lowering themselves from inside the ship they are sleek just like the rest of the ship sharp pointed triangles, eight of them arranged in a pattern around the hull to have a full 360 arc of fire.

Your XO looks down at the comms “Sir the station is asking if they need to evacuate, they say they can have everyone loaded onto a sublight barge in 5 minutes and we can tow them to the jump point.” The Weapons officer makes himself known at this point aswell “Sir both coilguns are crewed and loaded and I have the torpedoes warming up”. The ship is at most 3 minutes away from you and the station which means if it means to fight you have to hold for 2 while the station loads up in the barge. Or you could save your command and run. Your mouth is dry and for the second time in your life you fear for your life.

>Stand and fight until the station evacuates
>Run and save your command
>write in

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