23 Surrounded

Commander Sarah and I just sat to continue our chess game when navigator Jake shouted, "We are completely surrounded."

What the..? I turned around and counted seven dangerous looking ships closing in on us.

Commander Sarah said, "Oh no, we are all in deep," something or other. She also said these ships were spoiler fighters and that there must be a mother ship somewhere nearby.

The two guardians escort ships quickly began their attack formation. At that same instant, as planned, we begun to execute cloak and vanishing maneuvers.

Using the cloak and vanishing maneuvers, we can disappear from the area and make several decoys reappear in two or three different spots nearby. We can repeat this sequence long enough to stall and confuse our pursuers. The idea is for our almost invisible drone to swiftly move far out of range while the enemy is busy tracking the decoys. It works; most of the time.

The main problem this time is that we don't know the location of the spoiler mother ship. We hope that we are flying further away from it, rather than getting nearer.

Commander Sarah tells us that if we decloak close enough to the spoiler mother ship, we could be trapped by a tractor beam. If that happens, we would most definitely be in deep something or other.