Planet N-1

As the container exploded, the ships shields flared to life. For a moment the ship was completely out of sight and then faded back in as the explosion died. There were several fires across the ship and part of the biomass was floating loosely in space, but the shields flared back up and it turned away, moving towards the edge of the system before jumping out.

The Railgun ship ploughed forwards towards the explorer coming dangerous close to the ship and turning sideways to broadside it with missiles and its railgun blast... At this distance the ship was liable to cause damage to its self, but that was obviously the intent; get close enough that the enemy will damage its self when firing at you as well. Given that the explorer was clearly the stronger ship that this old ballistic weapons ship, it was obvious that they were trying to punch a hole in the enemy ship...

As the lasers hit the second ship, it's shields flared to life and it fired it's plasma weaponry. The ship shifted violently as it made emergency manouvers, speeding off to the side to avoid the lasers and targeting the source of the lasers with it's plasma weaponry and firing two plasma torpedoe's at them, attempting to bring them down. Then came the missiles, the first salvo knocked out its already weakened shields, and the second engulfed it in an explosion. When it faded, the ship, several sections destroyed and others heavily damaged, moved slower to the side, but fired another shot, before another beam hit it, sloving off the tip of the ships nose. Quickly, the ship jumped out of system, retreating from combat to avoid the last shots which would almost certainly spell it's doom

The ship on the planet quickly dropped the transport ship and moved away, blasting it with it's plasma weaponry as it retreated and lowered closer to the planets surface... There was a rumbling as several massive, bloated forms came towards the ships and struggled to attach themselves to it's underside. These forms were essentially the spoils of war, put together into a single, massive organism for movement. As they touched the underside, their tentacle appendages wrapped around the ship, and metal rods came out of the ship and through them, attaching it to the ship and extending the shields around them. With the majority of available biomass looted, the remaining forms in turn decomposed themselves to contribute to the construction of these organisms, and then proceeded to latch to the ship... it raised up into the air and turned away, flying away from the explorer and the combat and jumping off into the galaxy.

Outpost A-5: 

The worms quickly slipped through the airlock into the ship and began to sweep through it in search of an adequate host...

They found one, a deck mechanic who was working on a terminal. The worm slithered up his back slowly and onto his shoulder, before leaping into his ear and worming it's way through, taking over his mind... The other worms crawled up him and took position on his back, awaiting their turn to take a host...
The mechanic raised, turning his head towards the airlock before spinning again and proceeding off down the hall way, attempting to find his way to the nearest habitation area...