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Eight re off Jupiter onto the surface of Ganyht rerow here, with Jupiter endlessly supplying the energy? Eros had becoly powerful once the proto that could accelerate at incredible speeds without inertia Soe the very atmosphere and chemical composition of Venus And that ith just over a million human hosts and a thousand trillion tons of rocky

Ganynitude more mass than Eros What could the ancient alien weapon do with such bounty?

Amos threw open the last hatch to the shadow base, and the creas back in the higher-traffic tunnels of Gany infected No h the corridors No brown vo the walls and floor, filled with the alien virus looking for a host No Protogen hired thugs shepherding people into the kill zone

Protogen is gone

An itch at the back of his mind that Holden hadn’t even been aware of pushed its way to the front Protogen was gone Holden had helped bring them down He’d been in the room when the architect of the Eros experias that was sucked into Saturn’s ravity Eros had crashed into the acidic and autoclave-hot ato Holden hien’s only saht the protoiven the sae to be used in the peace talks The Outer Planets Alliance had gotten a lot of concessions in the chaos that followed the brief inner planets war But not everything they’d wanted The inner planets fleets in orbit around Ganymede were proof of that

Fred had the only sample of the protoiven it to hi it

“What was Fred?” Nao here He did this”

“No,” Naomi said

“To drive the inner planets out, to test so But he did this”

“No,” Naoain “We don’t know that”

The air in the corridor grew s off Holden’s reply Aroup, and the Pinkwater people stopped and took up defensive positions Amos moved up the corridor to the junction and looked off to his left for severalbad happened here,” he finally said “I’ve got half a dozen dead, ”

“Are they armed?” Holden asked

“Oh yeah”

The Holden ould have tried to talk his way by them, the Holden who Naole when he said, “Get us past the burst frounshots had faded away