Salvage

"Ugh!!!" Xenios said to no one in particular. "God damn Three hundred and forty-five systems and not one piece of salvage! Doesnt anyone die around here???" His crewmate Katamarino looked over and replied.
"Chill! We'll find something soon. its at least nice to be out of that heck-hole of a Detention center."
"True.. True... But its so god damn boorriinngg!. But i suppose until we get off from parole then we better stick to it."

Bleep! Bleep! "Whoa! hold on we've got something. seems to be a derelict Megathron. Heavy signs of weapon damage. the signature is caldari?!?! what the hell are caldari doing so far out here." Xenios asked increduously.
"Heck if i know... but still. the ship is intact which means we just hit jackpot." Kat said cheerfully
"Yeah, we better haul this off fast before the people who did this come back." Xenios said. "Attaching tow cables now."
There was a loud CLUNK and the ship shook slightly as they began to pull the derelict. "Kat, extend the data transfer pods to the ship and download all of the logs and ship records you can. "Already on it!" She replied.
"excellent at least we'll hopefully find out what happened here". Xenios stated. A few minutes passed and kat called over "Data transfer complete, do you want to view the logs now xenios?" She said
"uhh... We got other things to worry about now kat, maybe later." He replied.
"Awww c'mon it'll pass the time. this hunk 'o junks computer can handle the rest." She pressed
"Ok then, you persuaded me, im intrested in what happened. play the logs you think are relevant." He ordered
"well in that case i need to have a quick sift to find the relevant ones give me five minutes." Kat said.
"sure thing, gimme a call when ya done." Xenios replied. Kat turned aroudn and got to work straight away and sure enough in five minutes she had all the logs they needed.
"Xen, seems this ship was waiting for a larger force to come through and regroup from thier homeworld. also i have the relevant logs come over and lets watch!" She said
"Great! that was fast kat, your a real help around here!" He said happily. "Computer play entries in order leading from earliest to latest entries."
"Stand By" The disembodied voice answered. "Playing"

STARDATE 1571.143.21
AURORA SHIP LOGS
SYSTEM: Aeschee

-LOG BEGINS-
"Helm. Set destination for Old Man Star and whenever your ready take us out."
"Aye Sir. Co-Ordinates locked in. Pre launch checks are green across the board. Engaging at half burn."
"Warp drive is active sir. we'll be at Old Man Star within the hour"
"Understood. I'll be in my quarters. Mister reidinger you have the bridge"
"Aye sir."

"Skip ahead kat theres nothing happening" Xenios said
"Right!" She replied

-LOG RESUMED-

STARDATE 1571.144.01
AURORA SHIP LOGS
SYSTEM: Old Man Star

"Captain on deck!"
"At ease.. i've told you many times i dont care for the formalities. by all means when we have guests or more important people but you all know me well now cut it out! Jeez your getting me all embarassed"
"Uhh Sir, i have a warp signature in close proximity"
"what do you mean you have a warp signature... the fleet isn't due for another..."
"Sir, Check.. multiple contacts on closing vector. Unknown profile. Uhhh theyre not ours."
"Well if their not ours. Who the hell are they"
"Sir! Incoming weapons fire! They're getting through! Breaches across all decks!"
"This is the Aurora calling all fleet members" if you recieve abort the mission. I repeat abort the mission"

Loud static began emitting from the speakers. "Shut it off kat we know what happened and its obvious there wont be any more logs. Whoever did this did a damned good job. taking down a megathron so fast without them firing a shot... I sure hope we dont run into them.."
"That may be too late Xen. Im picking up a signal emitting from the mega. looks liek whoever did this wanted to know if someoen was moving the mega. its been broadcasting for approximately one standard hour. and we didnt notice it.. this could be very bad."
"Oh.... Crap. Kat! Detatch the tow cables and get us out of here now!" Xenios shouted
"Dont have to tell me twice" the ship rocked as the cables detatched and retracted. "Punch it!" xenios said and there was a moment of silence as kat pressed the warp drive button... and nothing happened.
"Odd. We should be accelerating by now." Xenios could feel his heart sink as he realised what was happening. "kat run an iridium sweep around the ship. it shout get a sensor ping off of a cloaked ship."
"Your right! theres 6 of them and they are surrounding are ship."
"God damn. we've been had. Big time!"
"they are de-cloaking xen. the lead ship is locking target.. in this barge we've got no chance." kat said gloomily.
"Kat.. you know i said i made some uhhh.. modifications to my ship.."
"Yeah.. what are you getting at?" She inquired.
"Well i fitted a very large Proton bomb to the engine core in cases like this so i can fullfil my ideal of 'If im going down im taking some of you bastards with me'. think we should give it a whirl?" Xenios said with a smile
"Hell yeah! At least we can take some of them." Kat replied smiling.
"Computer" Xenios Said "Activate Self Destruction Sequence. Code WOR-197"
"WARNING. Self destruct is now active. Twenty Seconds Until Core Detonation."
"Its been fun kat." Xen said
"Likewise" Kat replied
"Ten. Nine. Eight. Seven. Six. Five.." Outside the ships were closing in and were all but blocking view of the barge.
"Five. Four. Three. Two. One."
"See you in hell." Xenios said
Time seemed to stop and suddenly FwoooooooooMMMMM An explosion rocked space and obliterated everything within a 40KM Radius. The megathron derelict was left with a large rounded chunk vapourised out of its hull and left drifting...

Only one piece of the Ralek River remained.. and it was its name tag on a piece of hull drifting away from the scene.