BEST
PROLOGUE
EVER
It's from Duarte's point of view from just before he lost his mind to him killing evil scientist with his new powers to slowly regaining his mind.
DUARTE'S BACK!!!
He uses his psychic powers to find Teresa. He sees she's OK and moves on.
He reaches out to Trejo and talks to him with his psychic powers. Trejo tells the crew to get their asses back to Laconia.
Chapter One: Jim
The laconians are gaining traction 9n controlling other ring systems. Their ships are basically unbeatable so it only takes one to come into the system, blow up the resistance communications and tell everyone that they are in charge.
That's what they do in the system that Holden is in. They identify a ship and broadcast out to everyone that they need to power down and be boarded. They decide to run instead. Good for them.
They talk about their options. Should they run since the laconian ship isn't currently after them? Should they get. Ready to fight? Naomi says no. There's an ice hauler in this system that's a rebel ship and they're gonna go to that ship and hang out.
Chapter Two: Tanaka
Tanaka is a female in the Laconian navy. She vapes and has sex with younger much lower ranked men. 6
Chapter Three: Naomi
She did stuff and went through the ring gate. Amos is having a seizure.
Chapter Four: Elvi
Elvi and the zombie children are doing science. She gets the call we've been waiting for about duarte.
Chapter Five: Tanaka
Tanaka doesn't have sex in this chapter. She's looking for Duarte in a super suit that's got the most advanced sensor system there is. Sshes effectively hunting him by scent. She ends up in Amos's cave hide out and makes her way to a big cave that has a bunch of repair drones doing their while repair deal. Mostly they take broken things and dump them in protomolecule goo pits. She finds Duartes scent again and follows it to a spot where she sees things that look like eggs in nests. Science people tell her it's a ship. So she's pretty sure Duarte took that ship somewhere. Also those ships are untraceable. So unless someone just happened to see an egg flying through space she's up a creek. So her next thought is that Duarte might be searching for his daughter. So that's what she's gonna do. Find Teresa and hopefully find Duarte.
Chapter Six: Naomi
They find a message torpedo and read all the messages. Mostly underground political stuff. But one from Alex's son tells him he's gonna be a grandpa and that he's moving to some other system for work. Funnest thing is a message for Teresa that's says admission approved for fall semester. So either she'll go to school and won't be part of the plot anymore or we'll get a back to school viewpoint or maybe fall us a ways away and we won't even get there in this book.
Chapter Seven: Jim
Teresa isn't overly enthusiastic about going to school. She needs time to think about it. Amos is doing fixes and Jim likes to spend as much time with him as he can cause he's the only one that understands that the Goths are going to kill them all. Alex is psyched about being a grand PA and wants to send a message to his son. Teresa comes around on the school thing. So the plan us to pop over to the sol system for a minute to send a message to Alex's son, drop off Teresa at school and find a place to resupply.
Interlude: The Dreamer
They say I'm a dreamer...
I have no idea whats happening here.
GREG, explain it to me in the comments.
Maybe this is the perspective of their wierd overly protomoleculed precog lady.
Chapter Eight: Elvi
There's lots of science talk in here. Cara can kinda get messages from the giant diamond that works like a HUGE memory drive and Elvi kinda gets the theory that what it's trying to tell her is the biological history of the protomolecule makers. The theory so far is that they initially evolved from animals that were deep sea creatures that got their energy from volcanic vents. Also that their planet was frozen at the time. Fayez is very frustrated by this cause it's nice to learn but it's nor gonna help them against the Aliens that killed the aliens that made the protomolecule.
Chapter Nine: Kit
Alex's kid seems like a good dude. He's really trying to live life family first in a way that his parents and his wife's parents (2 moms, I love how in the future that's just a thing and not a big deal) claimed they wanted to be but ended up putting career ahead of family and didn't quite make it work. They go out to dinner and his wife suggests they don't do this job that puts them on a spaceship for a year before they get to a planet with gravity. Instead she said delay a year so the baby can grow his first year on Mars and avoid a lot of the developmental problems that babies that grow up in low/no G environments have. The thing she's kinda h8nting at but not saying is that s8nce this is Kit's job, he could go without them. Kit smashes that train of thought immediately. Whatever they do, they're gonna do together.
Chapter Ten: Fayez
Lots of science talk. None of it means anything to me. All of it reconfirms Amos's knowledge that the aliens that killed the aliens that created the protomolecule are gonna kill all of humanity.
Chapter Eleven: Teresa
Sohag Presbyterian Academy. Sounds like something from a H P Lovecraft book.
Doesn't matter, when they get there Tanaka is already there. She already figured out that they'd take Teresa to the planet with her only living relative. There's a lot of talking and then the ground starts to rumble.
Chapter Twelve: Tanaka
Tanaka was feeling good about this situation as Holden's crew is wearing light armor and her crew is in super advanced laconian armor. But the roaring is the Roci and it easily kills her crew with rounds designed to punch holes in spaceships. Holden and Amos get Teresa back to the Roci, but Tanaka has super air and runs faster than them. She tells Holden to give up Teresa and move along. Amos punches her in the head and after some fun power armor.on zombie fighting Holden shoots her in the chest three times. He thinks she's dead, which gives her enough time to shoot Amos in the chest. She's about to shoot Holden, but then she gets hit in the head again and I assume loses contiousness.
Interlude: The Dreamer
Maybe this is what Cara is going through as she counts with the giant diamond 💎 that stores the combined knowledge of the protomolecule aliens.
Chapter Thirteen: Jim
They get off the planet but Tanaka's ship comes after them. They tell them a lot if lies about coming only for Teresa and then they shoot a bunch of missles at them. So that's a bummer. But they put a rail through the laconian ship and that appears to have stopped them. Or they're playing dead like Tanaka did. Guess we'll find out in chapter 15.
Also, Amos isn't dead. It just took a while for whatever is in him to repair the hole that Tanaka made.
Chapter Fourteen: Elvi
Cara wakes up screaming that she's been shot. She must be connected to Amos.
Lots of other fun science talk. Her second in command, Lee, informs her morale is down and she should talk to the crew. She needs sleep and she doesn't know what to say.
Chapter Fifteen: Teresa
Teresa is having a cool dream. Her dad uses his psychic powers to tell her everything is going to be ok. She doesnt know that, she just thinks it's a dream. Someone comes in and tells her its food o'clock. Its her birthday 🎂and they made her a cake and they sing and she blows out candles and its neat. They are running away from new Egypt and they've decided to run to freehold. Whhen they get there they see a laconian ship. So this is bad.
Chapter Sixteen: Tanaka
Tanaka is still alive, but she's messed up.su0er bad. The medic on the planet suggests she stay there a couple weeks rather than going on another high G trip. She doesn't care. She's going after the roci. Problem is she doesn't know where they are. She gets a message from Trejo saying he thinks they're in freehold. She sets a course for free hold.
Chapter Seventeen: Naomi
The destroyer in the freehold system is se dong out a message that they know the storm is here and if they don't surrender soon they're going to start killing civilians. To make matters worse tanakas ship shows up. Fun twist, its broadcasting a message from Trejo to Naomi suggesting an alliance.
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