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first hit the ship at what I could only imagine was an appreciable fraction of the speed of light and it caused a massive explosion that caused me to turn away.
    My own ship opened fire, but it was too late. The damage was already done. Unlike the energy weapons the humans favored in combat there was no stopping something like this once it got going. It was a weapon of mass destruction usually reserved for planetary bombardment, but it appeared this human captain was trickier than usual.
    My ship did its own damage to the humans, but I could tell it was already over. The ship exploded in a blaze of glory, the souls of my men sent on to the spirits of emperors past.
    “The first part of this business is over with,” the human said. Funny that I would still be captivated by her beauty even as I was terrified of what she was about to do. That terror overrode everything, and it fed into my link with my wife causing her to feel an equal amount of terror that filled me with shame that her last moments would be thinking of me afraid rather than fighting to the death.
    “Bring the landing ships around!” I shouted into my commlink. “Ram the human ship! Do everything you can to protect the station!”
    Perhaps I was about to die, but it would be a good death. The pilot of my ship turned it around in a great arc and I was afforded a view of the station and the human ship. Which also afforded me a view of more of those massive hunks of metal being released from the human ship as they used their mass drivers to accelerate them.
    Directly into the station.
    “The Livisk Ascendency will not colonize worlds in human space,” the human captain said, her voice lacking any emotion. “This is the penalty for thinking we don’t leave our rim systems defended.”
    I felt helpless as the station went up in a massive explosion as all the oxygen was used up and various reactors blew, and then it was swallowed by that vacuum as soon as the fuel was used up leaving nothing but hunks of metal. It was over in moments.
    I was filled with rage as we approached the human ship, but there was one final insult left. The ship turned and started limping away from us. It was obvious it was severely damaged, I could see the marks in their armor where we’d landed hit after hit and disabled most of their energy weapons, but it wasn’t so damaged that it couldn’t limp away from the battle.
    “What are you doing?” I shouted. “Come back here and finish this fight!”
    The human captain had never left her holographic projection. She finally showed some emotion other than anger and battle rage. She smiled and bared her teeth to me. That was supposed to be a pleasant expression for the humans, but on her it looked threatening.
    “The problem with that is I’m not quite equipped to take on prisoners. Besides, something tells me you just failed royally with some important mission, and I figure it would be better for you to live with that dishonor and have to go back and report your failure to your emperor or whoever your boss is.”
    I fell back in my seat as others looked at me then looked away. I wondered if they could feel the dishonor settling into their bones the way I did. I felt the loss of my wife as well as the loss of that link that we’d shared since the day we were first bonded. I felt the loss of my honor more acutely, though.
    I’d hoped to die crashing into the human, or perhaps to die at the emperor’s hand when he learned of my failure. Now my humiliation was complete, though. My force was so trivial that the human wasn’t even going to bother killing us as was proper.
    My world, my career, my life as I knew it, was over.
    And yet all I could think was how impressed I was at this human woman with a warrior’s spirit who had bested me where countless other humans and Livisk had failed. Truly she was a warrior to be reckoned with. The humans would do well to promote her as high as possible, and the Ascendency would tremble before