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Jin had already decis on the base when the man she’d sent out on the ATV called in on a video chat

“I’m at the end of the runway,” he said “There’s a ship out there”

“Show me,” she said

He flipped the phone around It showed the open ocean and the blue sky The ca around until an object came into view

It was a ship all right, a break bulk freighter with four cranes, but it ht craft

The canized it as the headland of the harbor

She ran out to the bridge wing and looked toward the harbor entrance At first she saw nothing She squinted, flipping between the ie on her phone screen and as out herSuddenly, she saw the ship round the headlands and turn toward the harbor entrance

She ran back into the bridge and shouted at the XO, “We have an enemy at twelve o’clock Turn us around and prepare to fire”

“What about me?” the man on the ATV asked

“Get back to the base and help the others finish off those intruders” She hung up

“She’s not fully clear of the landscape,” the XO said “I can’t get a firm lock just yet”

“Then we’ll have to aim manually,” Jin said “I’ll do it myself”

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They’re co about,” Juan said

The ni quickly, as was the plasma cannon It would now be a race to see who could fire first The Oregon wasn’t in the right position yet to eli that Eddie and his teaer