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An Affirming Light

Dylan must stop mercenaries from killing him, but he has the upper hand, being on his ship.  Dylan performs several hit and run attacks on them allowing him to capture three of the mercenaries and place them into stasis.  Trance beings to rethinks their invasion of the ship and confronts the nightsider who then kills her.  When the nightsider finds out that Dylan is winning, he flees and forces Harper to take the Maru out of the hanger, the nightsider then takes control of the Maru to push the Andromeda Ascendant into a orbit to the blackhole.  Without engines, the ship will not last, while the engines are being worked on he comes up with a plan to fire all of the ship's nova bombs at the blackhole, which Beka and Tyr are against, but Trance is alive now and convinces them, which creates a white hole and pushes the ship out and allows them to go slip stream.  Beka wants her ship back and askes Dylan to help her.  Dylan want a favor, but doesn't tell her.  They follow the Maru's trail left by Harper and captures it from the nightsider who is placed into a escape pod and set adift.  Back on the Andromeda Ascendant, he askes his favor, he wants the remaining crew and mercenaries, just Tyr, to help him rebuild the commonwealth.  They that there is nothing to lose and join.