No, I'm not going to let this story die until it's finished, I promise.

Selantrio watched in amazement and shock as the Soldier of Fortune broke apart and exploded. With one hit, someone had just wiped out a quarter of the Deathstorm's firepower.
Then the rebels broke off their separate engagements, and swivelled to face the Sentry. Selantrio braced himself.
One - just one - torpedo shot towards them. Selantrio almost laughed. One would do nothing more than inconvenience them, unless it was poisoned. (Poisoned warheads, when detonated, play havoc with all electronics.)
It struck, barely rocking the Yelantra Sentry.
In the next moment, the scanners changed. Every ship depicted, phantom or not, moved to the left, although Selantrio could discern no movement outside.
Then the shields came down.
There was a moment of absolute silence before the waiting Raxilians began to fire their missiles. Now the Yelantra Sentry felt it, shuddering repeatedly under the force of being hit by volley after volley. Selantrio grabbed a crew member, a more intelligent lizard.
"Get to the shield generator," he hissed. "Get those shields back up, now!" The lizard saluted and left. He had barely cleared the door before it hissed closed, sealing them in. "Open those doors," he commanded.
"Can't, my lord! Passcode's changed!"
What?
The guns began to fire sporadically, hitting nothing. The screens all went blank, before words appeared, glowing.
- Be afraid. Be very afraid. -
At Selantrio's unspoken command, the remaining Deathless Ones vanished, headed for the Venomstrike. The doors hissed open again, while the words on the screens turned to something more sinister.
- Run. -
On cue, the crew made a mad dash for the door, which closed instantly. With a mental curse, Selantrio too vanished for the Venomstrike, leaving the bridge empty. Outside, escape pods ejected like seeds from a dandelion.
In the abandoned bridge, the screens remained blank and silent, hoarding their secrets jealously. One screen still had words.
- Well, that was fun. I hope he went to the Nightdweller. -

Pirelann, commander of the Nightdweller, watched in satisfaction as the Yelantra Sentry was first abandoned, then destroyed. That left the two smaller Jakkas intact.
The ship called Vortex Crawler fired once more, but Pirelann didn't stick around long enough. She vanished, leaving the rest of the Deathless Ones to their own devices.
Her destination was the Swordblade, Scimitar's flagship, where her fellow Fader Venomarin waited.


There's the betrayal, I sure hope Beren doesn't mind