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((I'm waiting for something to happen, hence why Tabitha's making conversation))

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Quintet knew what was happening. His last chance was to manually attack the federation ship. He's not sure why they hadn't scanned yet.
Suddenly, the lock-down was lifted. All the crew in the ship had died from a mutiny over the entire ship over an argument over who's fault this all was. All logs pointed to the mantis killing everyone and then suffocating because nobody was manning the oxygen and the Mantis wasn't quite smart enough to operate the ship alone.
It was Quintet's final chance of survival. He transferred himself over to the federation ship and did everything he could to slow it down.

"So, It's Quintet, here to make a final show. Lock him down, we can't give this ship time to jump away. Arm the weapons."
Quintet transmit one simple message back to his ship:
"The federation is not what you think it is."

(I'm sorry, but what happened? Does the pirate ship have no crew on it due to a mutiny, or is it the Federation ship?).

(The pirate ship had a mutiny because they all blamed each other for what's happening and everyone died.)

(Gotcha, thanks).

Targon frowned as he registered weapon locks on the ship. He checked to see if it was the pirate ship, but it was just sitting there. He also checked to see if it was the other ship, but it was just sitting there as well. Why would the federation be firing on us? Then Quintet's message was heard all over the ship.
"Okay, should I fire on the Federation ship, or what..?" Targon asked the crew. A loud boom and a wailing alarm answered him. An empty room had been hit with a hull laser, and it had come straight from the Federation ship. "I'll take that as a yes. Tabitha, point me at them so I can get a clear shot!"

Tabitha was busy chatting with the Federation officer over the comms when the message came in.
"Not what they seem?" she asked, looking at the Federation ship. Suddenly it began opening fire at them.
"What the? But why?" she exclaimed, powering up the engines to full and moving the ship into an attack position. "Switching to combat configuration" she said, diverting power from the main engines to the smaller thrusters on the sides. The guns deployed from their ports and began targeting.

"Francis, I know you're a reasonable man, but I've got my own orders from the Federation. Stand down and let us leave or I ill have to mark you as hostile." she said, hoping that the Captain would listen. Then again, why would a Captain listen to an Ensign... "I really don't want to have to kill one of my favourite customers."

The federation ship started firing on (insert our ship name here). I wonder what they did to provoke the Feds Kr steered the ship closer to the battle but didn't engage the federation ship. If they look like they're going to be overwhelmed I'll come in and help

Quintet did what he could to transfer his source code onto his ship. He could rebuild himself from there if the ship he was on was destroyed. He got a small connection as the federation ship shifted it's attention to attack.
" The federation is a lie that we've all fallen for. Please trust me. We are the only ones who can strike back."

"Then why didn't you TELL US!?" Targon shrieked furiously. "Firing!"
The flak whooshed out of the ship and smacked the Federation on the engines, making them splutter violently but they were still operating. In return to that the fed cruiser suddenly did a rather miraculous turnaround and fired a giant ion ball from its middle section. It phased through the shields and hit the artillery, making spikes of miniature lightning come from the room.
"ASB down!" Targon fired again, but this time missed as one of the fed's engines suddenly shut down and made him miscalculate.
This is not good. He thought. "Why the freaking-!?" Not only the artillery was shutting down, but also the oxygen and engines were losing power. The pilot would come next. "Tabitha, are you seeing this?"