Chapter: A Simple Trap

“This is too easy,” Middleton scowled at the main viewer as the Imperial detachment proceeded precisely as he had expected they would. He had fifteen ships—nine of them Cruisers with two Battleships—acting as bait in this star system’s interior while the Imperials had sent a raiding force with thirty warships of various design. The only ship he had in the system not currently in that formation was his sleek prototype, the Prejudice, on the bridge of which he now sto...