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Alex spoke behind her, and it was echoed a split second later over the cooes on the outside”

Bobbie couldn’t help laughing and held one hand up behind her until Alex slapped it

Holden said, “We have greens across the board down here in ops Everyone check in with go/no-go status”

“All green at flight control,” Alex said

“Green at electronic warfare,” Naoreen and hot,” Bobbie said last Even strapped into a chair two sizes too small for her, on a stolen Martian warship captained by one of the oddaood to be there Bobbie restrained a whoop of joy and instead pulled Holden’s threat display up He’d already ed the lead ship and let the Rocinante try to coet solution on it The Roci calculated the odds of a hit at less than 1 percent She ju a feel for the response tiet info and looked over the UN destroyer specs

When reading ship specs bored her, she pulled out to the tactical view One tiny green dot pursued by six slightly larger red dots, which were in turn pursued by six blue dots That rong The Earth ships should be blue, and the Martians’ red She told the Roci to swap the color sche ships On thedirectly at each other But in reality, the Rocinante was in thedown to let the UN ships catch up faster All thirteen of the ships in this particular engage it ass first

Bobbie glanced at the ti with the controls had burned less than fifteen ht”

“You and ?” Bobbie asked, tapping on her console

“I spy with ins with D”

“Destroyer,” Bobbie said “Six tubes, eight PDCs, and a keel-uess Your turn”

“I fking hate waiting for a fight”

When the battle began, it began all at once Bobbie had expected so shots A few torpedoes fired froe, just to see if the crew of the Rocinante had full control of all the weapon syste order Instead, the UN ships had closed the distance, the Roci sla on the brakes to meet them

Bobbie watched the six UN ships creep closer and closer to the red line on her threat display The red line that represented the point at which a full salvo from all six ships would overwhelm the Roci’s point defense network

Meanwhile, the six Martian ships reen line on her display that represented their optia to see ould flinch first

Alex was juggling their deceleration thrust to try to e before the Earthers did When the shooting started, he would put the throttle down and try to h the active co toaould just have kept theer

Then one of the red dots—a Martian fast-attack cruiser—crossed the green line, and alar off all over the ship