Revelation Space (2010)
Revelation Space
“Only ten hours remained until Volyova’s weapon was due to impact Cerberus, and in less than an hour from now, the first wave of her softening-up assault was scheduled to commence. This in itself was momentous—yet it appeared that he would have to witness it without Pascale’s company.
The ship’s cameras had never lost sight of the weapon, and even now it hovered in the bridge’s display, as if only a few kilometres away, rather than more than a million. They were seeing it side-on, since it had begun its approach from the Trojan point, whereas the ship remained in a holding pattern ninety degrees clockwise, along the line which threaded Hades and its furtive planetary companion. Neither machine was in a true orbit, but the weak gravitational field of Cerberus meant that these artificial trajectories could be maintained with minimal expenditure of correcting thrust.
Sajaki and Hegazi were with him, bathed in the reddish light which spilled from the display. Everything was red now; Hades ...close enough that it was a perceptible prick of scarlet, and Delta Pavonis—faint as it was—also casting ruddy light on all that orbited it.MoreLess
The ship’s cameras had never lost sight of the weapon, and even now it hovered in the bridge’s display, as if only a few kilometres away, rather than more than a million. They were seeing it side-on, since it had begun its approach from the Trojan point, whereas the ship remained in a holding pattern ninety degrees clockwise, along the line which threaded Hades and its furtive planetary companion. Neither machine was in a true orbit, but the weak gravitational field of Cerberus meant that these artificial trajectories could be maintained with minimal expenditure of correcting thrust.
Sajaki and Hegazi were with him, bathed in the reddish light which spilled from the display. Everything was red now; Hades ...close enough that it was a perceptible prick of scarlet, and Delta Pavonis—faint as it was—also casting ruddy light on all that orbited it.MoreLess
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