Alex and Sandra Ip have quite the whirlwind romance going. They make love and he lies in her bed while she went to work. Shes an engineer on the station so shes always got work to do. Alex is a pilot who's ship isnt plannimg to go anywhere soon. so they've got real different lifestyles. Alex goes to lunch and Holden calls. They are shipping out in thirty hours. He finds sandra and says his goodbyes.
ch 38 Avasarala pg 315
Avasarala is talking to a Martian commander. She says they need to talk alone. The target is the ring gate. More specifically to take over the Roman station they've strapped railguns to. The how is by sending a TON of ships into the ring. They are also going to send a hauler with the Rocinante as a distraction while they do it.
ch 39 Naomi pg 32
No matter what type of fight you're in, you're hoping for the element of surprise. Fun reference to book 1 Forgotten arm
Amos and Bobbie are gonna be on the ship they're escorting. They're hoping not to be noticed on the way so they can slip into the ring to attack the station. It's not working. A couple ships from ganamyde have spotted them and are heading their way.
ch 40 Prax pg 331
Prax is the one that sent the info on the super fungus to Earth. He has been waiting for the free navy to find out and come for him. Some uniformed thugs come for him at work. They ask him about the super fungus that his underling was working on. They ask why he moved those plans to a shared folder and who had access to that folder. Prax starts spouting a bunch of biochemical mumbo jumbo. He effectively baffles them with bullshit. They tell him to be more serious about data security in the future and they let him go. When he gets home to his wife and she asks what happened he says “I confessed,” Prax said. “I told them … I told them everything. And then they let me go.” “They did what?” “They said I shouldn’t do it again, and that I should leave,” he said. “It wasn’t at all the reaction I expected.”
ch 41 pa pg 339
Pa's group is hitting Pallas station. The plan in to take out what defenses they can to ram a ship into the docs to render the station useless. Then they head to Titan. But in the midst of the plan Pa hates it. She knows it'll end up hurting the people on the station way worse than it hurts the Free navy. So instead of a hit and run she is turning this into a blockade. She has a talk with the government of the station trying to convince them to surrender. Things aren't really going well, but they're not going badly. The problem is it's just a matter of time before the station is able to get around their blockade.
But Pa's gotta try to do this as peacefully as she can. "Killing people because they got in the way is inner-planets bullshit. It’s Free Navy bullshit. We’re better than that.”
ch 42 Marco pg 347
Marco is fighting, just like always. He is fighting OPA that aren't free navy anymore. The fighting is going well, but the free navy operation in totality is bad.
Filip is asking what the plan is now. Like the real long term plan. Not whatever the next thing Marco is gonna make up. Tell the real truth for once. Marco says he's having a tantrum and laughs at him so Filip leaves.
The economic guy is explaining again to Marco that if they don't get some start of stability their currency will be worthless and they'll have to start using Mars and Earth money again and that defeats the whole purpose of everything they've done. Marco wants to attack Tyco station so he can kill Holden. One of his people tells him Holden's not on Tyco station. They've found the rocinante escorting an old ice hauler.
ch 43 Holden pg 355
The ice hauler is full of smaller ships. When they get close enough to the ring gate they're gonna launch out of the ice hauler and attack. But before that they have to make it there and there's two free navy ships launching missiles at them. They make it through without any casualties and lots of ships launch out to attack the ring. But Holden really only cares about the one with Bobbie and Amos on it.
ch 44 Roberts pg 363
They're getting ready for the attack. The ships from Ganymede are still attacking as holden and the old ice hauler make their way to the ring. The goal is to make them move faster than they want. Hope in their haste they get sloppy and make mistakes. When the ice hauler gets there they see thousands of drive plumes. Mostly missiles. But lots of real tiny ships. Roberts sees one big problem. Any ship that small is gonna have the rails go right through it. So they cant shoot the railgun at the ships that have positioned themselves between the Roman station and Medina station or they'd effectively be shooting at Medina station. Every one is pretty pleased with themselves as the rail gun and the Medina station defenses are making quick work of the missiles and ships small enough to be indistinguishable from missiles. But Roberts sees that a couple of those small ships that are hanging out between the Roman station and Medina station are making their way to the Roman station. They're gonna take over the rail guns. EVERYONE needs to prepare for the rail guns to fire on them.
ch 45 Bobbie 371
Their little transport makes it to the Roman station. But there's Martian bunkers full of people with guns. Taking over the rail guns isn't going to be easy. In fact, it.looks like it will be impossible. They're going to die here cause they're outgunned and Holden can't help cause the second he gets into the ring, those rail guns will tear them to shreds. Amos has an idea, the rail guns have got to be getting power from something on the station. Let's get rid of that and we solve a pretty big problem. Bobbie takes the idea and runs with it. She gets their little transport into the air again. It's a tricky deal. If she flies too low she can't get a good view of things and if she gets too high the rail guns will take her out. She threads that needle and finds the reactor powering the rail guns. She bails out and the transport crashes into the reactor. It messes things up real bad. All the rail guns are now inoperable.
ch 46 HOlden pg 379
Things go amazingly well. Medina station surrendures right away. Avasarala is doing a press conference and feeling very confident about everything. Bobbie says this is foolish cause she's just gonna look super bad when Marco takes the station back. This is a surprising and upsetting idea to Holden. Bobbie lays it out real simple, Marco is close by and has lots of ships with guns. Also Duarte and the other laconians might come back through the gate to help Marco. Earth and Mars are very far away and any backup they send won't get here until Marco has finished killing them. Without the railguns they don't have much of a chance to keep Medina station. The button on the chapter is Bobbie saying this is a good hill to die on.
ch 47 Filip pg 387
Filip is hanging out at a bar on Calisto talking to a girl. He asks her how bad the attacks were. His thought is they just attacked the Martian ship yards, so it couldn't have been too bad for the belters. But you don't just kick half a ball. The whole ball gets kicked. Lots of units got cracked and people died. Her mom was one of those people.
Some guy comes along and bumps Filip and starts hassling him. Filip considers pulling our his gun and killing this guy. It'd be easy and he'd get away with it cause he's Marco Inarezes son. He decides to just walk away.
He gets a call on Hus tablet. Its time to go. They're gonna kill Holden and Naomi and take back Medina station. Philip starts walking to the docks. He gets there and sees the dock for their ship. But instead of getting on, he puts his gun and tablet in the recycler and heads to the employment office. He says he needs a job. The lady says come back tomorrow and she'll see what she can do. He puts down his name as Filip Nagata.
ch 48 Pa pg 395
Pa is at a luxury resort on Titan. She gets a call from Avasarala asking her to help Holden. Giving her sincere condolences that two of her spouses died in the fight for Titan. It's pretty sad. She messages back that she's got no ships to send.
She feels bad for all of this. She fought and people she loved died and for what? Things won't be better for belters. If anything things will be worse for belters because she joined up with Holden. This song is called I am sad, so very very sad.
ch 49 Naomi pg 403
Naomi is pouring through the Medina station data and sending it out to everyone. Holden comes in and they talk about their options RE: Marco and the rest of the free navy ships headlong their way.
They are just gonna stay and fight and probably die.
Avasarala wants all the data they have on the disappeared ships so she starts digging through that data. She thinks she's figured out something important.
ch 50 Holden pg 411
The important thing Naomi thinks she's figured out is that after a certain amount of mass and energy goes through a gate the next ship after that gets disappeared. She thinks if the big ice hauler and the Rock go.through just right maybe the next ship to go through after them disappears. So that's Tue plan. They're gonna go through a gate and hope that the next ship disappear and then one less ship to fight.
ch 51 Marco pg 419
Marco is a crazy person. He thinks a lot of thoughts and when I see them strung together on paper they're the ravings of a mad.man. when he goes through the ring he sees his molecules start to stretch out and disappear.
It worked even better than expected all fifteen ships disappear. “Huh,” Amos said over the ship system. “That is super creepy.”
ch 52 Pa pg 425
Its been six months. They have big problems. Mainly a lack of air, water and food. The solution should be easy, there's plenty of all those things on the other side of the ring gates. But we've gotta come up with a system cause if we don't ships will keep randomly disappearing. Holden has a plan. We create a government -esque organization to organize all traffic through the ring gates. Anyone that's able bodied will end up on a planet. So this governing organization should be made up of belters that will not have that ability. And the person in charge should be someone that's always done what's good for the belt. Michio Pa.
Michio hadn’t come to a meeting. This was an anointing.
ch 53 Naomi pg 434
They're All just hanging out talking abouwhat t the future might bring.
Epilogue Ana pg 441
remember preast Ana who was in the slow zone? shes taking her family on a ship to the new settlement Eudoxia. it should be better than earth. good luck.
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