@Strato: Hmmm...interresting. If a master thief stole all of your equipment, you'd be extremely vulnerable to physical attacks and wouldn't be able to dodge them. Not Good Eats.

The Interceptor II leaves the Shadow Realm. The ugly black hole is still present.
"I'm picking up something!" the Helmsman says.
"What is it?" asks Jeanie.
"Some kind of warp gate...it's somewhere near that base you guys tried to ransack."
"...Set a course for the base, but stay out their sensor range."
"Aye, ma'am."