Destiny approaches under purchased identification codes and an outer shell that conceals its warship form. Sarah waits until both weapon types can engage before shedding the disguise and destroying the asteroid's defenses. When freighters flee, life-sign readings distinguish a ship with more than a hundred people aboard from one carrying six. The latter is destroyed and the former disabled, after which the remaining slavers surrender. An inventory helps account for the captives, while drones take control of the freighters' computers and Destiny tows the damaged vessel away. The mission also becomes an operational test of recent modifications, completed before a separate shakedown cruise.
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Destiny's slave-base raid: disguise, coercion and capture
A disguised frigate defeats a station's defenses, varies its fire against escaping ships, and takes the surviving freighters home with freed captives.