Flying within the gravity anomalies was no longer an advantage. As the Defender slowly moved further from the Tagrale shots had started to strike its shields once more. To make things worse, all of the incoming ships had now been able to close in on the Defender’s location. Rather than trying to evade the enemy ships, Jenna was going to have to break through them.
The only thing which might be on her side was that the invaders wanted to capture her rather than destroy the ship. Hardly a great advantage.
The shields had recovered a little during their reprieve but by the time she finally threw power into the Defender’s engines and flew it free of the Tagrale’s anomalies they were hovering at just above forty percent.
The Defender was fairly fast for a ships of its size, but the small
