It only took another three jumps for them to encounter more Dark Acolyte ships. This time there were five, all a similar size to the Dagger, which had everything dialled back to the level of a normal ship.
The Acolytes pounced on the Dagger as it emerged from jump and by the time anyone was recovered enough to be able to take in what was happening the Dagger’s shields were already down to fifty percent.
Jensen had been the first to recover again. Drake had him turn the Dagger to run then fire its weapons at the closest Acolyte ship. Those weapons consisted of only a few low powered beam weapons. The rest of the Daggers weaponry was hidden away. Not just the powerful auxiliary weapons, most of the Dagger’s normal weaponry as well. To the Acolytes it looked like a low powered ship which
