“Yeah,” I replied. “But get ready to override the cycle and open the air lock when I tell you to.”
“What? I don’t understand,” she replied.
I shook my head, trying to will away another wave of dizziness. “They’re going to break through one way or another—if we open it, we have control over when they get through and we’ll prevent them from breaking the air lock entirely.”
See, their mistake was trying to break through our air lock. Admittedly, for a small ship sometimes you don’t have many choices, but even so—attacking air locks when boarding an armed vessel is a bad idea. During the few operations I’ve had to run that approach, I like to use an outer cargo area or some other armored wall. You clamp your own air lock to their outer hull, punch through any armor plating, and then you’re
