together and let him get off almost as many birds as Thunder.
And, in a way, Yu was just as happy his energy weapons would be out of it. His jamming and other precautions should make it almost impossible for even the Manticorans to localize him if he used only missiles, but energy fire could be back-plotted far too precisely, and hiding his ships had required him to shut down his own drives, which deprived him of any sidewalls. Besides, Principality was one of the new city-class destroyers. She was short on energy weapons . . . but she packed a missile broadside most light cruisers might envy.
“I don’t like how long the range is,” Simonds muttered after a moment, more quietly but still stubborn. “They’ll have too much time to spot our missiles after launch and take evasive