Starfall Convoy Ambush

A 13-second space opera anime short, 16:9: a civilian convoy ambushed in an asteroid field, one lone escort fighter holding the line. The hook: a crane-painted fighter dancing through the rocks to draw pirates off the freighters.
0-3s: A slow establishing drift through the asteroid field — tumbling rocks backlit by a bloated red giant, ember-orange dust. Six bulky civilian freighters lumber into frame, hulls scarred, engines burning blue-white. The camera rides low and close to the lead freighter's keel.
3-7s: The ambush. Pirate interceptors with jagged black hulls drop from behind the rocks, railgun fire strobing white-violet. A freighter's engine blooms into a fireball; debris tumbles past the lens — spinning containers, severed antennae. Alarm lights strobe as the formation breaks.
7-10s: The escort fighter streaks in — a white crane motif across its wings — dancing between asteroids in impossible vectored-thrust turns, afterburner a needle of blue. It draws the pirates off the freighters one by one, jinking through a needle gap in the rocks, pirate fire shattering stone behind it. One tight cockpit close-up: gloved hands, visor reflecting red-giant light.
10-13s: Finale — the fighter rolls across the camera as the surviving freighters burn for open space, the red giant swelling behind them. The last pirate, venting atmosphere, drifts dead into the rocks. The crane motif catches the light as the fighter forms up on the convoy's flank. Survived.
Craft: container-stack freighters with patchwork plating and glowing nozzles; the slim crane-liveried escort; jagged black pirate wedges with railgun spines. Camera: establishing drift, whip-pan ambush coverage, locked fighter-dance tracking, one cockpit close-up, wide escape finale. Lighting: red giant key — ember-orange rim light on rock and hull — engine blues, white-violet strobes, alarm reds. Atmosphere: desperate, heroic, kinetic. Style: space opera anime, zero-G dogfight physics, filmic grain, 24fps, 13s, 16:9.