NARRATOR: Uli-Oa orbit...
DEVEREAUX: Broken Wind, this is Manicouagan Six Actual. To whom am I speaking?
KATHRYN: I am Acting Captain Kathryn Flinders.
How might I be of service to you, Admiral Devereaux?
DEVEREAUX: I need to speak with Commodore Tagon.
KATHRYN: He is currently indisposed. His son's death hit him pretty hard.
DEVEREAUX: It's true, then? Captain Tagon is dead?
KATHRYN: It's true.
DEVEREAUX: Oh. I'm very sorry for your
comms, off-panel: *distraught, talking over* NOOooooo
DEVEREAUX: *sigh*
It would appear that Manicouagan's Tac-Room comms are in the hands of a Captain Tagon fanboy.
KATHRYN: The kid's got style.
Now let's get to the brass-on-brass stuff. What's your commodore-level... thingy?
DEVEREAUX: Petey wants to destroy Uli-Oa, and let the U.N.S. coordinate resource recovery for all comers.
KATHRYN: Huh.
More high-speed impacts, then?
DEVEREAUX: Many more.
KATHRYN: We're not feeling much love for the Esspees right now, but somebody should probably warn them that their world is about to get hammered into hot, priceless gravel.
DEVEREAUX: Sounds like a "commodore-level thingy" to me.
KATHRYN: If he wakes up before we kick down their door, it totally will be.