![]() Roci lost track of 'em when we were chasing Eros. Nearly 30 of them kept on going, long after all the others aborted. They detonated them after they lost target lock. This is all the telemetry on the nukes the UN launched against Eros. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'd do her if she'd let me. Hey I'm glad that me and Naomi being together isn't an issue for you. HOLDEN: So in the interests of the smooth operations of this vessel, and the morale of this crew, I just wanted to let you know, that Naomi and I are together. Whether you like it or not, you are the Captain of this ship. I don't want to be the one who says who lives and who dies. When I said we had to keep following Eros, I was ordering you, and Amos, and Alex to your deaths. I think part of him never left that terrible little room where we found Julie. I wonder if he knew that his trip to Eros would be one-way. Miller told me he trusted us to do the right thing. Miller wanted to destroy it, too, you know. ![]() It's not a bio-toxin, or some genetic toolkit. The Protomolecule turned an asteroid into a space ship. I'm amazed Earth and Mars didn't blow each other up - out of sheer panic. How come you don't say "Love you, Mom, and mom and dad, and mom and dad and dad.Ĭan you imagine what it must have been like on Earth, watching Eros coming at you with no way to stop it? ![]() The people on this ship, my friends, they helped avert a catastrophe. The UN will be monitoring your messages, so there's some things I can't talk about.īut I just wanted to let you know that I'm okay.Īnd that this time, I didn't run from the fight. HOLDEN: So, I don't know what you've heard, or if you're even going to get this. Tracking has been very difficult, but we're confident we'll be able to account for all the rest in short order. So far, sir, we've confirmed abort on 121 m*ssile. One hundred and fifty m*ssile we launched. Next on our list of sh*t, we need to clean up. I'll expect regular updates from you personally. If there's anything left of Eros down there, we'll find it. We're also reinforcing the hull to allow us to get closer to the surface. JANUS: We've commandeered a civilian survey vessel and are refitting it with our best sensors and probes. SADAVIR: Where are we on the impact site mission? So we will just have to be insightful on our own. They might have more insight The Rocinante and James Holden have gone silent.Īlong with Fred Johnson, and the Martian government. The Rocinante was closest to Eros than anyone. Whatever it was, it's clearly the greatest technological leap - since the Epstein Drive.Īnd if it is a w*apon, given the depleted state of our m*ssile, it's a w*apon that will conclusively tilt the balance of power in favor of Mars. JANUS: The one thing we do understand is that Eros was a wake-up call. Like a massive relativistic field generator or Or some other bunch of science words you string together? It is, of course, possible that it was something else. It's the single most plausible explanation. They've been pumping R&D into that project for over a decade. JANUS: The consensus, is that Eros was a test of a new Martian zero-inertia drive. The original owner was Chinese, so I turned the damn thing off. The voice interface had been problematic from the start. I wasn't expecting much, maybe four percent better, tops, and I was taking it out for a test run. I'd been modifying the engine to boost fuel efficiency. My wife, Caty, wanted to start having babies, like all good Martians do, but I convinced her that we should buy a second-hand yacht for me to tinker around with instead. We were ready to govern ourselves and start a new nation of our own, but everything we built, or mined or made, was still the property of old Mother Earth. SOLOMON: Mars had been a colony for a long time, and it was filled with the best scientists and technologists humanity had to offer. MILLER: Whatever happens, it happens to both of us. I believe that makes you the most powerful man in the system right now. Give him access to your m*ssile, and my crew and I will guide them in.ĭRUMMER: One hundred and fifty live thermonuclear m*ssile under your control. UN ADVISOR: Our m*ssile have lost their target-locks. It's now on a direct collision course with Earth. The sooner we have it out with Earth, the better.Īnd we serve where we are ordered to serve. ![]() SOUTHER: You want us to att*ck a Martian moon?īOBBIE: We trained all our lives for this. It's mostly automated, minimal personnel. I need a patron who understands the historic importance of what's happening. You need my government's resources and my protection. That is too important to destroy right now. AMOS: Stick it on the end of a torpedo, and we f*re it into the sun. ![]()
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