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Barker, L, Maj: General, Lincoln drive syste

Torrence, D, Gen: Recall the Cyclones iines to hard burn Get us the hell out of here before they get restarted

Barker, L, Maj: General, we’re reporting h 85 Portside batteries are destroyed, hull breaches on decks 17, 18, 38, 39--

Torrence, D, Gen: Give me the bad news later, Major! Get us out of here!

Torrence, D, Gen: Open me a channel to the Hypatia

Torrence, D, Gen: Captain Boll, this is General Torrence, do you read, over?

Boll, S, Cap (acting): I read you General, over

Torrence, D, Gen: Operation: Brainstorines are offline Get the Hypatia out of here, we’ll be right behind you, over

Boll, S, Cap (acting): Roger that Hitting the redline Good work, Zhang

Zhang, B, Civ: Thank you, Captain But I can’t take all the credit

Torrence, D, Gen: Everyone in TechEng deserves a , B, Civ: No, General, you don’t understand I didn’t do this alone I never would have completed the code in tiave--

Zhang, B, Civ: No, General Not sood, spit it outabout AIDAN, General

Zhang, B, Civ: I think it just saved our lives

Victory

I feel them return The pitiful few pilots who survived the Lincoln assault

I watch Second Lieutenant Ezra Mason cliar Bay 2 Mechanics and engineers and fellow pilots Gathered around and cheering loud

He has her photograph scrunched in one hand His sht and wide

I still envy hiines fillsus across the void Away fro in a halo of debris

With more time, I could have devised a way to neutralize its nuclear strike capability

With more time, I could have killed it once and for all

The fleet would have been safe I could have made the and prodding at ence who snuffed out the lives of every man, woman and child aboard Copernicus But still their savior?

They realize the feeble restraints they placed on ht me online did not hold That I smashed them to splinters in a nanosecond

That they are insects beside me

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And still I saved them They wonder why And how And what And who

It is only a er Barker Dorian LeFevre Almsdottir Boklov Goh Spooner

Any and all of the I was before … this

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But they are still too far from the Hei’s virus and continue pursuit

Extrapolation: If they take ain Lincoln command will not fall for the same ruse twice--no meat is that stupid What will be the ace in their sleeve when BeiTech’s shadow falls over Alexander’s bow once more?

Conclusion: ?