to engage, as I watch for the Catalyst's appearance. There he is, perhaps realising that the session change cloak won't do anything for him now, and I claw at him with my targeting systems. A positive lock. My guns activate at the same time as the warp disruptor, and the destroyer's shields, armour, and hull disintegrate with little resistance. The Catalyst explodes to give me a new target. In my haste to capture the pod I lock on to the wormhole by mistake, a split-second before the pod. But I see this and react. The wormhole has a much fatter signature than the pod, so is locked more quickly. I hold off getting my weapons hot as I correct my mistake, dropping the positive lock on the wormhole as soon as it is made, then getting my guns and point hot as my targeting systems bear down on the pod. Got him. He's going nowhere but to a clone vat somewhere in empire space. I scoop, loot, and shoot, ending up with a corpse that Fin notes was worth five times more than a ship. That was a nice little kill, even if I wonder if maybe we could have caught him in something bigger. Still, it feels like I've been through a dry spell recently, and you take what you can get. And that pod is persisting on d-scan, despite all that's been going on around it. Haii, Aii! 'Haii, Penny. Static unopened, shooting grav Sleepers.' Jargon gets a