Kardai and the<span style="font-style: italic">Aparte </span>were indeed busy with the two freighters.  While her crew were busy loading what valuable items they could she’d returned onboard her ship.  The<span style="font-style: italic">Aparte</span>’s tractor beams were used to pull her between the two of them, so that one ship was connected by the port side, and one by the starboard.<br/><br/>The other crew, however, were less than fearful of the dreaded pirates that had disabled their ship.  Gunfire was echoing out when Kardai had finally made it onboard the second ship.   The smell of burnt tibanna permeated the air.  A fine haze of smoke lingered about and where she made her way towards the sounds of blaster fire she passed dead bodies,  she didn’t have to study each to know most were crew and upon occasion one of her own.<br/><br/>Each loss was more heavily felt aboard the<span style="font-style: italic">Aparte</span>, considering they were like a family and each person had their place, their skills and their routines.<br/><br/>She tucked down next to the hatchway where her men were positioned, an occasional  blaster bolt danced back and forth in and out of the bridge where the last few of the original crew were holed up.<br/><span style="font-weight: bold"><br/>“How many have we lost?”</span>she asked<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">“Don’t know,  two.. I think..”  </span>gruffed back the old man.<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">“How many in there?”</span>she asked next.  Anger settling upon her for the loss of her crew.<br/><span style="font-weight: bold"><br/>“Four.  Captain and three others.”</span><br/><br/>She motioned for her people to focus on her,<span style="font-weight: bold"> “Get ready to close these doors.” </span>She instructed with a motion if her fingers towards the hatchway towards the bridge.   With her sidearm in hand she waited for the next break in fire then rolled into the floor right middle of the open doorway.  Her aim was deadly as it was true.   Two shots fired.<br/><br/>What happened next was no less destructive as it was effective as her shots whizzed past those four members, not striking a single one but their target – the forward viewport of the bridge.  The first shot sent deep fractured stress cracks and the second finished it as the port shattered into millions of pieces.  The depressurization immediately lifted those four out of their places and sucked them through the  jagged port and into space, everything not bolted down through the entire area was sucked out, whipping around as Kardai began to get sucked through the doorway.<br/><br/>Only a well struck grasp of hand at her flak vest kept her from sliding in the way of those doors as her people shut them, sealing the vented bridge and ceasing the vacuum that dared drag them towards their death.<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">“I want any remaining crew neutralized and the cargo sorted and identified.  Things we can sell the easiest first.    Lets get a move on it, I want to be out of here before any responding Imperial ships get here.”</span>