“Netty, if we start for Earth now, is there any way we can avoid having to fight these guys?” “I can time things so that when we pass within their threat range, we have Titan between us and them. After that, they’re going to have other things to think about, because they’ll have your mother’s force and the Schegith ships on their tails,” she replied. “Ah, perfect. Make it so, my dear.” What followed was the most carefully choreographed space “battle” I’d ever been involved in. It consisted of Netty coordinating a series of brief burns by our respective ships’ drives to slide us behind the
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I hate geometry.
