Blowing up fighters?
Well Lorcan wasn't usually the kind of guy to volunteer for a space-based mission but he was exactly the kind of person who would do whatever it took to make sure his first big mission in charge was a success. He had been the one to draw the conclusion that the pirates even had a base of operations like this and he had been the one to bring it to the brass and request back up to make sure they managed to secure it.
Now all he had to do was, you know, not die and not kark it up.
"Alright Thalia we're coming in hot and fast so they won't know we're inbound."
The idea was that they would jump to a position not too far from them but outside of scanner range and then do a quick jump to lightspeed and back in order to get the jump on the enemy fighter screen. Taking a deep breath, Lorcan nodded to his borrowed astromech droid and they were suddenly at lightspeed - before they were suddenly not and Lorcan was almost right on top of the group of eight fighters on patrol.
The good news was that they were surprised.
The bad news was that so was he.
"SHIT!"
Panicking at coming in far closer than expecting, Lorcan cursed loudly and spun his ship, firing a missile as he did so in an token effort to actually attack the enemy while he had the advantage. The missile, more by luck than judgement, exploded and clipped one of the fighters, damaging it so much that the pilot chose to eject rather than stay inside the crippled ship.
Still... surprise attacks were apparently not easy when in space.
@GABA