A carrier ramming threat becomes coercive leverage

In Space Carrier Avalon, the carrier accelerates toward its opponent while the crew evacuates, leaving the captain aboard to control the approach. Nearby reconnaissance drones let him follow the enemy's evasive maneuvers despite the delay in ordinary observations and communications. An offer to withdraw is insufficient because the opposing fighters could attack again once Avalon turned away. The captain instead demands that the enemy carrier shut down its zero-point cells and its fighter crews eject. He verifies both actions before avoiding the collision with seventeen and a half seconds to spare. The threat succeeds because surrender removes the enemy's immediate means of renewing the attack.