“The captain of the Andromedan clan raider ‘Black Panthers,’ Moonblay, returned to the ‘Rumstein’ station. The return from raids wasn’t pleasant. He brought back a heavily battered ship. He lost all his corvettes and wasted his ammunition. Yet he didn’t achieve much—apart from the enslaved captives and a food supply seized on the looted station ‘Chilis.’
The raider was converted from a large transport ship and externally looked no different from an ordinary mid-tonnage merchant vessel. But behind the false bulwark there was the armor of a heavy cruiser, and the transport itself was scaled like a battleship. It was equipped with the weapons and systems of a heavy cruiser.
The crew consisted of five hundred cosmo-fleet sailors. On board was a landing detachment of assault troops in the number of two hundred…"