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"His name's not fluffy it's Banthy." Tabula corrected her asuming she was talking about her stuffed toy. The warning lights and announcment then blared all around "What's that?" Tabula asked.

The alarms blasted Helix out of bed and as he hit the floor rolled against Little Bird, plugged into a port in the wall. His head smacked into the droid with and he sat dazed next to the chirping robot. As he blinked away stars he looked at the droid and asked, "Situation report?"

With a whir the holoprojector lit up and showed a list of systems, all reading nominal. Fortunately Helix had been too tired to bother changing out of his mechanic garb when he'd laid down, so after a quick glance at the list he rushed out of his quarters and down to the engine room. As the door to the room slid open Ellbee rushed out of his quarters right behind him.

Inside the engine room Helix hit the nearest comm button as last of his wariness burned away, "Engine room standing by. We just hit a dictor patrol?"

Xan sat next to his Akk dog, the sudden jolt doing little to throw them off. It's kind of hard to really move when an orange armored animal blocks your path.

"Yah 'ear tat? Pirates!" Xan said. He didn't really care too much, as it was the crew's responsibility to get them out of this situation. The cargo hold was his defense fortress. The Akk dog perked up and gave a thump with it's tail at the word.

"No, yah can't eat'um." Xan remarked, as the dog gave an obvious sign of displeasure. "Well, maybe one couln' hurt."

(Isn't the engine room my combat station)

"Ellbee, boost the power to the shields, I'll pump some more juice to the weapon batteries." Helix tapped out a program code on one of the panels and redirected power from the tractor beam mounts to the weapons systems. Then he ran over to the power conduit that fed reactor power and ionized plasma into the engines and turned off the regulator, dumping Terawatts into the drive system. The ship lurched forward as the throttle limiter was removed. Sure it was hard on the engines, but he could fix that after the battle.

That done he grabbed a console and sent out an order to the droids, ordering them to access the airlocks, cargobay doors, and hangar doors and keep them closed. If the pirates wanted to board, they'd need to drill their own hole.

A thought occurred to Helix as he glanced at one of the ship readouts, his droid was designed to help maintain a ship, and it did it by scanning and analyzing sensor data to find where systems had gone wrong and were on the verge of going wrong.

And this ship had a sensor suite unlike any other he'd seen, let alone worked on. Glancing at the droid he hit the comm, "Bridge, my droid can analyze the sensor readouts for flaws in the enemy ships if you do a sensor focus on them. I'm plugging Ellbee in down here, if your sensor officer would coordinate the sensors with him and he'll feed back targeting data."

The ships intercom crackled to live with an unfamiliar voice, one she had heard earlier here on the bridge. From the earlier conversation, he had had with the captain and she assumed, at the time that it had been the chief engineer. Now she new she was right. Without waiting for orders from the captain, she keyed up the Ruusan’s sensor suite, punching in the commands for a focused scan of the closer of the two pirate ships.
“Already on it Cap’,” she keyed her headset. “Scanning first target now.”

Niomie’s com board lit up notifying her that it had received a response from engineering. Without skipping a beat from her astrogation computations she accessed the file, gave it a quick glance and transferred the targeting data to the Ruusan’s weapons repeater screens at the captain’s station.
“Reply from engineering cap’ transferring targeting data to your weapons control.” Her voice detached as she concentrated on her work, trying to resist the urge to look out the view port at the spectacle of chaos that was about to revile it’s self.
“Kick their ruttin’a** Ruusan!” she silently cheered her ship on.

"What the hell?" Gairus asked as he sat still in his bunk. "Who's attacking us?" He stood, and stumbled over to his travel pack, reached in, and pulled out his repeater. He also slipped into his armored vest. "Now I'm ready for a boarding party!" He said to himself.