"All hands, prepare for evasive maneuvers!"  Antony shouted over the vox, while<em>Katana</em>flew into a wide corkscrew pattern, narrowly avoiding a black beam of energy that seemed to devour every sensor wave it came near.  With barely any time to savor their escape, Thraxius' sensor baffle picked out the waves of static buffeting the ship, and tried to locate where the shot came from.<br/><br/>(the fleet is 32 VU from the pirate base, and can locate the enemy vessel with a successful scrutiny+detection roll at a -40 penalty)