Being on a civilian ship, Stan and Delmar had better appointments than the regular service transports. Stan looked out a view port and spotted an Axia three-man scout ship keeping pace with them.“Looks like we have an escort,” he remarked, and pointed out the ship silhouetted against the stars.“I’m not surprised,” responded Delmar. “This ship is armed but it never hurts to have extra help.”It seemed like almost everywhere they went in the passenger cabin, the boys heard talk about the attack. Later they ran into the ship cargo master and got to talk about the fight and the ship in general.“Yep, we spotted ’im just as he come ’round some debris,” the cargo master commented. “The captain swung us ’round so’s we’d present a smaller target. His first shot is what scorched our paint but we winged ’im with return fire. Then a heavy Axia cruiser showed up and run ’im off. They was still close ’nuff for us to see ’em torch that sucker! Quite a satisfyin’ sight!”“We noticed that some of your passengers looked a bit scared,”
