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“So, Alex,” Bobbie said, her atte that had gone before flagging them at once, “are you still in touch with anyone over at the naval yard?”

“I know a few guys still serving at Hecate, sure”

“So I ondering if I could get you to do a little favor for me”

“Sure, of course,” Alex said And then a fraction of a second later, “What is it?”

“I’ve got a kind of hobby thing going on,” she said, looking pained “It’s… unofficial”

“Is it for Avasarala?”

“Sort of The last tis she said gotup, there’s a lot of change going on Strategies shifting Like that And one of the big resources Mars has – one of the things that there’s going to be a market for – is the Navy”

“I don’t understand,” Alex said, leaning back in his chair “You mean like mercenary work?”

“IBlack h a couple pretty ot scrapped Some of them it seems like we just lost track of And the Navy’s stretched pretty thin I don’t kno ht now You know there was an attack on the Callisto shipyards?”

“Saw so about that, yeah”

“So that’s an exa incident, and the first response is all about identifying as behind it and rebuilding the defenses”

“Sure,” Alex said “You’d want to do that, right?”

“So figuring out exactly as lost in the attack is on someone’s to-do list, but it’s not the top And with all the shit going on, it et to the top And everyone kind of knows that, even if they aren’t saying it”

Alex drank, put down the bottle, and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand “So if there’s a profiteer on the base, they could take the opportunity to lift some equipment that survived, sell it on the black market, and call it lost”

“Exactly I ht noith things a little chaotic and getting weirder all the time?”