Chapter 36
Jess smiled grimly as the Wanderer blew away the last fighter. Killing still didn’t come easily to him, but the Imperial ships were hell-bent on seeing slaves delivered into danger. Dash’s suggestion that the merchant ships would all be captured or destroyed to prevent Daspal’s secret defences being revealed also rang all too true. He didn’t enjoy the killing, didn’t revel in it, but at the same time there was a grim sense of justice being served.
Something else made Jess want to smile. Some of the changes he’d made to the Wanderer had already proven their worth. Not only had the shields easily withstood what the corvette could dish out, the changes designed to hide their true strength seemed to be working.
Jess didn’t fully understand how the changes worked. The simpli
