With his opponent's shielding now down, this would normally be when Avery would target critical systems and destroy the vessel but doing so this time would only come back to bite him.
While the captain in charge was a corrupt piece of garbage, most of the crew were just regular members of the Alliance Police following orders.
Their superiors had told them that they were going to be eliminating pirates that were trying to disguise themselves as mercenaries and they had no reason to doubt this.
Killing everyone onboard certainly was not going to help Avery ingratiate himself with the Alliance Police. Plus, he doubted that they would be happy to have one of their expensive ships destroyed as well.
Since he was counting on the organization to clean this mess up once it was over, getting on their bad side was only going to cause a bigger headache for him and his team latter on.
