Yeah. Yeah, we figured it out. [ He wet his lips, a little quiet. It was jumping to the end, but -- ]
It was a door. Got accidentally activated when a rock hopper kid sling shotted like a bullet through it. Me an' the Cap an' Amos were already on our way there, after Naomi left, along with a whole fleet from the UN and from Mars. Hell, even the Belt came - they outfitted the Nauvoo and renamed it the Behemoth - first Belt Nation warship, if you'd believe it. You were there too - not on the Roci, but on the Xuesen. We uh - we used to video call, a bit, but that's not really the point. Anyway, so we were on our way there, right? Then this kid activates it and the ring fills with this weird blue haze shit, only no one can really tell what's on the other side of it, right?
So everyone is gearin' up to try to poke at it gently, but -
[ He frowned. ]
Somethin' happened. An explosion, on a UN ship. And at the same moment, the Roci locked us out of our comms and weapon controls - while broadcasting a message from Holden about how we'd gone and blown the damn thing up on behalf of the OPA. We hadn't, of course. Someone had hacked our systems and made that video of Holden with some fancy tech, but - suddenly we had target locks from nearly every damn ship in the AO, including the Behemoth.
They fired first. The Belt. Made sense, since to them it looked like we were tryin' to get them all killed in another shootin' war out in the damn edges of the solar system. Only we didn't have PDCs or anythin', so I had to gun it. Only here comes Holden, actin' fuckin' nuts, I'll be honest- tellin' us that we had to go through the ring, real slow.
Now I didn't mention it before, but, that kid that turn the thing on? Turned to liquid paste. The ring stopped it so fast that the sudden deceleration just obliterated him. So I wasn't too keen on goin' into it, for obvious reason, but it ain't like I can outfly a missile with a target lock.
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It was a door. Got accidentally activated when a rock hopper kid sling shotted like a bullet through it. Me an' the Cap an' Amos were already on our way there, after Naomi left, along with a whole fleet from the UN and from Mars. Hell, even the Belt came - they outfitted the Nauvoo and renamed it the Behemoth - first Belt Nation warship, if you'd believe it. You were there too - not on the Roci, but on the Xuesen. We uh - we used to video call, a bit, but that's not really the point. Anyway, so we were on our way there, right? Then this kid activates it and the ring fills with this weird blue haze shit, only no one can really tell what's on the other side of it, right?
So everyone is gearin' up to try to poke at it gently, but -
[ He frowned. ]
Somethin' happened. An explosion, on a UN ship. And at the same moment, the Roci locked us out of our comms and weapon controls - while broadcasting a message from Holden about how we'd gone and blown the damn thing up on behalf of the OPA. We hadn't, of course. Someone had hacked our systems and made that video of Holden with some fancy tech, but - suddenly we had target locks from nearly every damn ship in the AO, including the Behemoth.
They fired first. The Belt. Made sense, since to them it looked like we were tryin' to get them all killed in another shootin' war out in the damn edges of the solar system. Only we didn't have PDCs or anythin', so I had to gun it. Only here comes Holden, actin' fuckin' nuts, I'll be honest- tellin' us that we had to go through the ring, real slow.
Now I didn't mention it before, but, that kid that turn the thing on? Turned to liquid paste. The ring stopped it so fast that the sudden deceleration just obliterated him. So I wasn't too keen on goin' into it, for obvious reason, but it ain't like I can outfly a missile with a target lock.