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You approach the second Phocian Corsair ship and notice a guard on watch. Your Psychic Awareness tells you nothing, but he is not alert. You decide to Thinkstrike him and the power of your mental attack makes the tired guard unconscious. You board the sleek, arrow-shaped ship, passing through the small hold and up the stairwell to the bridge and sleeping quarters. These small ships were built for a one- or two- man operation Their design is archaic to your eyes, but the ship computer assists you to pilot the vessel. The scanners show the other Phocian ship climbing into orbit, soon to leave the atmosphere Wasting no time, you secure yourself in the oddly-shaped, free fall couch, and gun the Phocian pirate ship into the sky, on the trail of her sister ship. As you clear the atmosphere, locked on to the other Phocian's course, its pilot hails you on the ship-to-ship Lascom. Your ship computer picks up the coded bursts of low intensity laser light and converts them to speech. 'Why are you following me?' Do you: