As it so happened, there was a Maunhouser fleet nearby.
As soon as the Maunhouser ships were within range two chrons later, their lead battleship began relaying navigational telemetry to the Essta via Q-com, so I suppose they must have installed a previously entangled unit on their ship. Gloria and Alex brought the Essta in, following the battleship’s guidance to avoid hitting any of the numerous ships maneuvering in the standoff between us and the Oversight installation before guiding us through whatever automated defenses the base had.
And then we were there.
“You’re set to go, Hunter,” Gloria said over the comms once the Essta was in position, hovering a short distance outside one of the facility’s external bulkheads so that the very edge of the stealth field would obscure our shuttl
