Damn. David Cole was famous. By the time the massive, ten-thousand-ton Aegis-class space frigate Unyielding tore through the dust of the asteroid belt and surged into the battle zone, most of the pirates had already scattered like startled cockroaches into the more complex debris fields. The colossal warship boasted terrifying firepower: massive twin-barreled main railgun turrets, laser point-defense clusters dotting its hull like a porcupine, and a powerful phased-array radar capable of scanning multiple astronomical units. It symbolically vaporized a few larger, slower pirate modify ships with its secondary batteries, clearing the area, but most of the smaller vermin had already vanished into the radar clutter at the edge of detection. The damaged assault ship Anvil-03, along with David
