The party commenced.
Shuttles and other craft ferried boarding party after boarding party to the many disabled but reasonably intact alien warships across the battlefield.
Some of the large but unresponsive alien hulls had to be towed in order to stop them from drifting away and getting crushed by nearby asteroids.
The attempts to secure the interior of all of the vessels did not always proceed smoothly. Different pirate groups tended to adopt all manner of defenses to protect their greatest assets.
Some of the alien races and individuals were also much better armed and armored. Combined with the fact that certain species were much stronger infantry combatants than humans also produced a lot of human casualties.
Yet no matter how many troopers got injured or died, the morale among the soldiers never dipped.
Each of them were grateful for putting their long hours of training to good use. For once, the mechs no longer stole the entire show.
