You're late, Eval.

Evaluator materialized in the Vortex Crawler and immediately saw Kovu, unconscious on the floor. The starfighter was on autopilot, making dizzying evasive maneuvers.
A small shard of glass-like substance clinging to Kovu's fur caught Evaluator's eye. It was no larger than a splinter. He flicked it away from the pilot, and Kovu immediately awoke. Struggling to his feet, he blinked at the strange rabbit standing in front of him.
"Uhh, who the heck are you?"
"I am Evaluator. I -" he spun around, grabbed the controls and wrenched the Crawler around. The Moonblaze shot by, barely missing them, bearing straight for the Venomstrike.
Evaluator vanished, presumably to stop Saturn from her suicide, and Kovu took the controls. A moment later, armed with magnetic pulse missiles and ions, he shot after her, trusting in the Crawler's greater speed to help him overtake his ship.

Saturn watched the Venomstrike loom closer in her viewport. She assumed that Beren was in the bridge, and she was prepared to kill herself if she could only take him with her, especially in light of what she had just found out.
Beren had driven her away from Carrotus.
Not personally, of course; but he had hired the thugs who had done it. She didn't know why, but she knew it was true. It made sense.
Dimly, she was aware that the Vortex Crawler pursued. Claw thought to stop her? She would succeed.
She had forgotten that Coppertop had Claw with her, had forgotten that they were aboard the Venomstrike.
She sped on towards her death.

Coppertop froze in startlement. She had completely forgotten about Shinyso and the Katarvin captain. Now she had cause to remember.
The walls and floor were liberally splashed with blood, but the lizard was nowhere to be seen. Shinyso was leaning against the wall, saber sheathed. He was not uninjured - he had a slash on his ribs and his left shoulder bled freely. But he clearly was the victor.
"What did you do?" she demanded, surveying the damage. He grinned ferally.
"You really don't want to know, believe me. They carted his ... body ... away a while ago. I take it you won too?"
"You could say that. We lost one."
"Looks like you're all here to me," he commented. Then, seeing Zanzibar's face, he nodded. "I see. Let's get to a hangar and call Shonar."
"Wait!" Zanzibar stalled them with a frantic call.
"What now?"
"There are prisoners here ... I mean, we should free them, right? I mean ... oh, blast. My brother Rroyvan is here! Beren caught him to use him against me but it didn't work. I've got to get him off!"
"Right. Where is he?"
"Top outside levels, where they'd be the first to go."
"Good. Where's a turbolift?"


There you go.