"These pirates are courting death!" Chekov coldly stared at the virtual screen on the main console and shouted, "Main cannon, fire!"
A beam of white light shot straight at the armed merchant ship Oklahoma. In an instant, the nearly two-thousand-kilometer distance vanished. There was no sound to be heard; only the sight of a dazzling flash followed by a large hole blown open at the tail of the targeted armed merchant ship. Countless fragments and body parts were hurled into the void.
Minutes later, the armed merchant ship, spinning erratically in space, was utterly annihilated in a violent explosion.
This was the fourth armed merchant ship lost by the pirate fleet.
With the Federation Fleet only having lost one escort ship, the pirates' numerical advantage was fading. Devoid of the armed merchant ship's cover, two old Phoenix destroyers were now exposed. The flagship Castle Lily had locked onto one of them and was relentlessly pursuing it.
