They arrived in the third sector. It was labeled an 'Abandoned Sector'.
"The next sector seems to be abandoned so we should be just fine! We can just cruise through until we reach the next sector beacon!" Tim claimed.
Unfortunately they were not quite as hungry. The first beacon they jumped to had a Lanius Cruiser.
"Weren't these the warrior people you talked about?" Aarron asked.
"The Lanius are a metallic race that have been dormant for hundreds of years." Banks said.
Before the conversation could continue, two of them warped onto the ship. They ran towards the shield room. But before they could arrive, Banks and Aarron stopped them in their tracks and attacked them. Aarron threw one out of the airlock, but it kept staring and grabbed onto the lock.
"What? He's not dead?" Aarron roared.
"They absorb oxygen and can live without it for days at a time!" Artyom replied.
Aarron tackled the other one and punched him repeatedly. The room was getting low on oxygen. Pretty soon Aarron and Banks would die of suffocation.
"Crap! We might die! Somebody help! Please!" Aarron screamed.
The second Lanius fell to the ground. Meanwhile, the first Lanius crawled back into the ship and grabbed Aarron.
"Help! He's going to kill me!" Aarron said, wrestling with the Lanius."
"I'm sorry, but this is what I have to do." Banks said, grabbing Aarron and his attacker and tossing them both out of the airlock as hard as he could. The Lanius didn't grab the ship again and flew towards a nearby planet. They never saw the two again.
Before they could mourn, another Lanius teleported on board. Banks roared with anger and ripped his large claws across the Lanius' metallic face. Sparks flew everywhere and Banks threw the incapacitated Lanius out of the airlock while he was blinded from the sparks.
Before anymore Lanius members could come on board the ship, Banks grabbed Tim and dragged him to the teleporter room. They warped on board and started attacking the last member. They killed the last one and warped back on board just before they suffocated from the Lanius' lack of oxygen.
They traveled throughout the sector fighting Lanius ships. No other ships had ventured into the Lanius territory and lived. Small pieces of ships were flying through space.
The crew was halfway through the sector when they were hailed by a Lanius ship.
"My ship has been flying through the sector for weeks! I think it's going to completely fall apart soon! Can I join your crew?"
"Sure. We need someone new to man the weapons, thanks to Banks here." Tim agreed.
"I did what was necessary to the survival of the crew!"
"I wouldn't say that the crew feels the same way. That planet just got two humanoid presents."
"Are you two done?"
Tim swiftly teleported the Lanius on board.
"Welcome aboard! What's your name?" Artyom asked.
"My name is Fenn."
"We need another member of the boarding crew. What do you say?" Banks offered.
The boarding crew had now been rebuilt. With the new crew member, they quickly jumped through the dangerous sector to a much safer one, the Engi Homeworlds.