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“—illegal and unprecedented seizure Ad until—”

Five inco a nanored them all for the broadcast controls As soon as the live button went active, she looked into the camera

“This is Assistant Undersecretary Chrisjen Avasarala, representing the civilian governal and appropriate coiven to Ad his orders will be subject to legal action I repeat, Adally authorized co sound Avasarala stopped the broadcast and turned

“Okay,” Holden said “That was bad”

“What?” Avasarala said “What was bad?”

“One of the Earth ships just took three torpedo hits”

“It that a lot?”

“The PDCs aren’t stopping them,” Naomi said “Those UN torpedoes all have transponder codes that h They typically don’t expect to be getting shot at by other UN ships”

“Three is a lot,” Holden said, strapping into the crash couch She didn’t see him touch any of the controls, but he h the ship as well as the speakers in her helone live Everyone has to the count of twenty to get strapped in someplace safe”

“Solid copy on that,” Bobbie replied froot the doc strapped in and happy,” A into this?” Alex asked

“We’ve got so like thirty-five capital ships out there, all of theer than us How about we just try to keep anyone fro us full of holes”

“Yes, sir,” Alex said fro was gone That was a good thing At least Holden had control when there had to be a single voice in co in,” Naouys”

“I blaravity ticked up and slewed to the side, the Rocinante taking action beneath her Her couch shifted and creaked The protective gel squeezed her and let her go

“Alex?”

“On ’eunner, sir”

“Are we going to have enough tiot three ”

“I can take PDC control fro, but it’s soive the PDCs to the sergeant”