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Weapons of choiceSo far we have six hundred and thirty-seven confirmed dead on the Clinton. One thousand and fifty-three KIA on the Fearless. Another eight hundred and ninety-two throughout the task force. We have more than fifteen hundred injured. Half of them from the Clinton again. We've definitely lost contact with our two boomers, and with the Vanguard, the Dessaix, the Garrett, and the Indonesians. We're not leaping to conclusions, but it could be they just didn't come through." "That's not the case with the Nagoya, though," said Kolhammer. "No, sir, it's not. We're pretty sure now the Nagoya was the source of the event and was destroyed by it. Makes sense, given what they were messing with. We've got some video on screen three." The flatscreen came to life, quartering into four windows displaying mast-mounted cam coverage of the Nagoya. The video ran at normal speed for a few seconds then seemed to stop. Both Black and Curtis moved around to watch the video. The ensign whistled softly, but the older man scowled at the screen as if he didn't trust it. "We had to dial back the replay speed," said Judge. "Even then it's hard to say what happened, it was so quick." Kolhammer watched as the giant research vessel suddenly seemed to contract to a single point before a lens of swirling light bloomed out from the same spot. "What the hell was that?" he asked. "It looked like they got sucked down a drain or something." "Yeah, it did, didn't it? Lieutenant Dietz from the working group trying to nut this out called it spaghettification ...» |
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