Well, we had to remember that Kaguya and Moya were still high school students, not professional soldiers, and they hadn't experienced many battles where life and death hung in the balance. They also didn't understand that for most soldiers and warriors, if every mission went like this, then the world really would be at peace.
That was right. There were hardly any survivors left aboard this "unidentified" ship. After boarding, the team had reached the bridge and engine room with remarkable ease, without even getting into a fight.
It took the team nearly twenty minutes to clear more than forty bodies from the ship. Although the local military database wasn't up to date, the Empire was able to identify over half of them just from the ship's records. They were pirates, smugglers, mercenaries, and the like, most with criminal records. They were a pretty hardened bunch, and their weapons were no joke.
If they had put up a desperate resistance and started fighting through the ship's corridors, there would inevitably have been significant casualties.
Fortunately, the enemy had been very confident in their ability to stay hidden, and they hadn't been prepared for both sides to launch such an underhanded surprise attack.
The sudden flash of a photon interference bomb had destroyed their cloaking system and sent most of the ship's equipment into meltdown. They hadn't even been able to close the bulkheads except by hand. Naturally, that gave the steady stream of nanotoxic bombs and biological radiation bombs that followed an ideal opportunity to strike.
By the time the marines boarded, all that remained was mopping up. It was no wonder the two troublemaking teenage girls had found it so boring.
Fortunately, just as the twins were preparing to leave, the marines, who had searched the ship from top