"Don't you recognize me?"  You ask, "I'm from your ship!"

    "No, I don't recognize you," the pirate guard says.  But she lowers her pistol.  At least you're safe.  Maybe you could ambush her and disarm her before she could hurt you.  If you could do that, then you could get away from the pirate ship.  You begin to look for an opportunity to pounce.  If you can get a hold of the barrel of her laser pistol, then she won't be able to aim it at you.  Then you could just pull it out of her hands and tell her to give up.

    But she pulls out a communicator instead, and calls Lothair.

    "Captain, I'm stationed in front of the ship, as ordered.  There's a person I don't recognize here.  They say that they are a pirate, but I haven't seen them before."

    You look for a chance to attack, but the guard keeps her eyes on you.

    "If they are a pirate, then send them to the Bridge," Lothair answers.  "We need somebody to keep watch up there, in case the Spacers try anything."  Lothair turns off his communicator.  The guard puts her communicator away and points at you.

    "Lothair said you're supposed to be on the Bridge of the ship."

    You realize that you might have lied too well.  But you can't get away now, because the guard expects you to go back to the Bridge of the pirate ship and follow Lothair's orders.  Feeling trapped, you head back up the gangway and into the pirate ship.
 

    On your way up to the Bridge, you realize that the ship has begun to move.  When you get to the Bridge, a man orders you to sit down at the Tactical station.  He tells you to turn on the ship's weapons.  Then the ship flys away from the Farragut with you on board.  How are you going to stop Lothair's plan when he's forced you to do his dirty work for him?
 

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