On Holiday in Vale of the Silent, p2

A quick inspection of IPAY reveals no-one in system, now. Not knowing how much time he has before the Tengu can jump in behind him, Ael immediately uncloaks from the gate, and cloaks up using his prototype cloaking device. While allowing him to be stealthy, and undetectable by any ships, it limits his speed to a lowly 15 m/s. Ael waits to see what will happen next.

The Tengu jumps in seconds later, followed close behind by an Majestic Empire Crusader. Then the rest of the ME gang jumps in. Amazingly enough, they simply uncloak for a minute, then most of the gang begins to travel back to the stargate and jump back through. Ael starts to chuckle. He might just get out of this alive.

All that is left is the Tengu and the Crusader now. Ael's heart is pounding as he watches his consoles. The crusader is moving away, not orbiting, so not really being a threat. Then the Tengu starts moving.

Ael quickly realizes the Tengu pilot is a smart one, as the Tengu begins an orbit of about 10km.. and the computer starts sending alarm signals to Ael that he is on a collision course. No chance to fight this time, it must be flight. Ael aligns to an asteroid belt, and the Tengu closes withing 3500 meters. Disengaging his cloak, Ael mashes the warp button for the asteroid field. The seconds tick by as the Warp Drive climbs.. Ael's computers haven't registered any targeting locks from the ME's? Targeting Locks start going up just as Ael's ship hits Warp Drive. With no time to lose, Ael immediately re-aligns to the P3e gate upon exiting warp at the field, and selects his scan point at the P3e gate as the destination. Again, the Warp Drive builds.

Local spikes, the Tengu and Crusader come on grid, and once again, Ael's Warp Drive engages just as the Locking targets come up on his console. Upon exiting warp, Ael immediately engages his cloak once more. Safe, for the time being. All was not without incident though, as Ael attempts to contact his scout. Nothing but static for a few moments, then the grave news his scout is back in empire, ugrading his clone and fitting out another ship.