8-585: Spanial, Control

As I said, she can always attempt to persuade her comrades to change their course of action…

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Kort gestures to the screen, where the first ship is now at a definite angle and showing its elongated egg shape, “ask ’em; no-one’s stopping you.”

As Lia watches, a line of lights emerges from the structures she scanned earlier at the front of the ships.

Ipan says, his usual bored-teen tones suffused with excitement, “Contact 1 is firing, I’m detecting impacts on the wreck.”