Jace looked at his own shields. They weren't shimmering; they were glowing with a warm, golden light. He targeted a nearby pirate lord—a man with a multi-million credit bounty and a reputation for skinning traders alive. He pulled the trigger on his pulse lasers.

"Alpha One, why aren't you engaging?" Jace radioed, his voice cracking.

The beams hit the pirate’s hull and turned into literal bubbles. They popped against the metal with a soft tink .

In the actual game, the Elite Dangerous Timeline is filled with wars, sabotage, and alien threats.