"I suppose that'll depend on how friendly they are. If it's like I suspect, they'll take some of our valuables, take us to a nearby system while sending a message home, we wait a few days, and then they let us go," Milia said. "Or, they could be the far less pleasant kind... at which point, we can inflict our guest upon them."<br/><br/>Some twenty minutes later, the large ship pulled up near them, and directed them to land in the open bay. Kerric maneuvered the ship in, carefully, the bay doors closing and the bay pressurizing. A message blared over the intercoms:<em>Step out of your ship, with your hands raised. Leave all weapons on board your ship, and no one will be harmed.</em>