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He s back That the only thing leading hi was his contract with them That he hadn’t been chosen by the protoun to understand

Sometimes, Monica turned to the others, but Alex and Naomi kept their answers friendly, polite, and shallow Amos laced his responses with cheerful and explicit profanity until it was al for a civilized audience

Cohen turned out to be lasses he ere a sonar feedback system that allowed him to create a three-dimensional model of any space he occupied When Amos asked why he didn’t have prosthetics instead, Cohen had told them that the accident that claimed his eyes also burned the optic nerves away The atterowth therapy had failed and almost killed him with an out-of-control brain tumor But the interface that allowed his brain to translate sonar data into a working 3D landscape also made him an extraordinary visual effects modeler While Monica spun a narrative of Holden’s life following the destruction of his ship the Canterbury, Cohen created beautiful visual renderings of the scenes At one point, he showed the crew a short clip of Holden speaking, describing the escape from Eros after the initial proto down perfectly rendered Erosian corridors filled with bodies

Part of Holden had almost coraphics for a few seconds before he asked Cohen to turn it off He’d been sure that seeing it would somehow invoke Miller, but it hadn’t Holden didn’t like the memories that came with their story The docu hi nice about it so, they caught up to the Behe on the ops deck with the crehen the h for the Roci’s telescopes to get a good view of her Holden had allowed the restrictions on where the documentary creere per a slow pan of the Behemoth’s hull when Alex whistled and pointed at a protrusion on the side “Damn, boss, the Morun turret right there And I’d bet a week’s desserts those things are torpedo tubes”

“I liked her better when she was a generation ship,” Holden replied He called up combat ops and told the Rocinante to classify the new hull as the Beheht and add all the hardpoints and weapons to her threat profile

“That’s the kind of stealing only governuess the OPA is a real thing now”

“Yeah,” Alex replied with a laugh

“Mars is ainst us,” Holden said

“And if we’d been the ones to blow up their battleship before we flew off in this boat, they’d have an arguuys, though”

Nao on the comm panel Holden could tell it was a co to herself

“You’ve been on the Nauvoo before, right?” Monica asked

“No,” Holden said The Rocinante began rapidly throwing data onto his screen The ship’s calculations of the Behe on it the first ti for Fred Johnson, they’d already shot the Nauvoo at Eros, and she was on her way out of the solar systeh the ship they sent to catch her, once”

The Rocinante was displaying puzzling projections at him The ship seemed to think that the Beheth to support the number and size of weapon hardpoints she currently sported In fact, she seemed to think that if the OPA battleship ever actually fired two of its six capital-ship-class rail guns at the same time, there was a 34 percent chance the hull would rip apart Just to have so to do, Holden told the Roci to create a tactical package for fighting the Behemoth and send it to Alex and Naomi Probably, they’d never need it