The Sun Tzu could have easily blown up the jump-ship, the Sun Bin, as soon as she cleared the Hangar Deck. Donna took her out fast, but the Sun Bin--named after a Sun Tzu descendant and fellow military strategist--was still no match for the bigger ship.
Scott fully expected a fusillade of fire as soon as the Sun Bin got far enough away. There'd be no reason to hold back when Cairn's quantum bomb was distant enough to no longer be a threat.
Sure enough, the Sun Tzu threw shots--but they were all warning shots across the Sun Bin's stern. Not one of them got close enough to singe the jump-ship's armor or bump her off course.
It was then that Scott knew the Diamondbacks were letting him go. For all Perseid's accusations about being a traitor, he'd deliberately let the Sun Bin escape wit
