"So let me make sure that I'm understanding you right. This was a simple retrieval mission, but thanks to some solar storm somewhere you diverted your route to an area where there were pirates, and as a result you lost the entirety of the Apexis that were assigned to the ship? On your first outing you lost the lives of twenty people, people with decades of experience and that would have been an incredible asset? How the hell do you manage to do that?"
"They were going to board one of the ships before they were destroyed by weaponry that we hadn't expected to see on the ships. It happened in an instant, and they had no chance of survival. Following that, we destroyed the three ships in response once the boarders that had made their way onto our ship had been repelled."