Dokka turned to Capitan Rose and exclaimed,"I can buy us time. Do you relinquish command?" Her impassive one-eyed face studied him for a moment and she said quietly,"If you can save us, save us." Addressing the pilot,Ragdoll,"Swing us around, one hundred eighty degrees." To the chief engineer, he said,"Bring fusion engine one on-line, if possible." He turned toward Slicey-Dicey and asked,"Hypercannon status?" She said in surprise,"Fifty-one percent! Toxic must have funneled the engine explosion into the light-pipes to the cannon capacitors. Or something." Dokka Tkarro nodded and stood up. "Alright. Time to be an insulting human! Put me on a channel to them." Rose looked surprised and said,"Alright." Dokka sounded angry and sneering as he said,"THIS is Capitan Dokka Tkarro of the Balaam Police Ship, Nautius! You ship is crippled, and our faster than light fleet is closing on you, as I speak. You should either sue for mercy...perhaps we'll be merciful, if you make it worth our while. Perhaps you'd like to tell us why you attacked us UNPROVOKED? Perhaps ours allies, the Jongwe could loosen your tongue?" Perro sent at short-range IR to Rose,*That is the most outrageous body of lies I have ever heard. I've heard plenty,too!* Rose just uttered back,*Magnificient!* After a long moment, Rose said,"Incoming transmission..." Dokka grinned for a second and set his face in stone. He said,"On screen." The Asuran Battleship commander had devil-like horns and a goat-like face. He growled,"UNPROVOKED? You slimey human germ! You species created us, and NOW we will have our REVENGE!" Dokka acted less than impressed, and asked,"On us and our allies?" "I am Baphomet of the Asura Battleship,Shotan's Wrath! We'll destroy you and your planet! The Jongwe are NOT your allies!" He was practically hissing in rage. Dokka waved a hand at the camera,"They have a colony in Apharis, near the sea-port of Telegardia. Our Allies on this ship are machine-life just like them. You want to dance with them,too?" Narchi said over Dokka's private earphones,"We can reboot the RIF generator at anytime, Dokka." Dokka turned away from the screen and called Neblae. Dokka asked,"Neblae--Any word on Snowflake?" Neblae shot back quickly,"They are in position!" Baphomet was still ranting on how humans were weak and deserved to die, when Dokka interrupted him,"You didn't say if you're going to surrender now or not? Please surrender more quickly if you are." Baphomet exclaimed in rage, as Dokka cut him off. "Tell Pazu to fire. Raise shields! Fire missiles, proximity search and destroy, velocity ZERO! New course, X-PLUS SIXTY-FIVE, Y-MINUS ONE HUNDRED TWENTY! MAX SPEED!" The Relative Inertial Frame folded around the Transport as Pazu and Snowflake fired the hidden fighter's hypercannon fired into the battleship's emergency maneuvering thruster. Pazu flipped the fighter over, to escape. The explosion was several megatons of fusion fire that enclosed both vehicles in the star-core heated fireball. The Transport fluttered down toward the icy surface, like a burned butterfly trailing smoke. The fighter blew to splinters in huge shower of sparks. Minutes later in the fiery atmospheric re-entry, a huge parachute blossomed into being over the frozen terrain of Adamesh. A single escape pod flew down toward the the glacial ice from the the cloud of debris that had been a huge battleship. A moment later, a huge dark shadow seemed to flash over the explosion site. All the made things without life stopped working as Dark Energy flooded them. Lights and heaters, and locater-beacons all extinguished and went dark as the survivors fluttered down toward the ice. --TO BE CONTINUED!--