“Splendid!” he said, his face animated across the Q-com’s connection. “We take the fleet mobile and use the Celestial as a portable defense platform. Then we continue broadcasting our message whilst moving system to system. We might even travel the dark routes to avoid AAA territories. And in doing so, we will distract Oversight from CUMA, as with our forces gone from Selma II and IV, Oversight will have no further reason to threaten this system.”
I grinned, excited by the idea. Even Greene seemed intrigued by the notion.
But from her expression, Quatra wasn’t yet convinced. Even so, she was willing to ponder the idea. Finally, she nodded. “I suppose we don’t have many other choices. Katherine, Greene, we need to finish our work here to get the ship ready. And if we’re leaving, I want th
