Even with Kaiden's new heavily armed and armored corvette serving as a protector, Avery's new carrier ship that was disguised as a cargo vessel still attracted an astounding number of pirates.
He had gone so far as to turn off the false cargo data to try and make the craft seem less appealing, but this actually had the opposite effect.
Since the priates were no longer able to tell what sort of loot was onboard, they figured that it must have been something so valuable that the transporters wanted to keep it hidden.
Gang after gang of pirates assaulted them at nearly every hyperspace entrance and exit that it slowed them down by more than a day.
It seemed that the safer route that they were taking was only considered as such because the priates that were around only went after targets that appeared to be weak.
