
Drummer quietly gets out of bed and puts on her uniform, heading to the cockpit just as they are approaching the Tynan. In Drummer's ship, her polyamorous family/crew is sleeping in small groups scattered around beds in a room. Avasarala tries to convince Delgado to bring their case to Military Intelligence, because she knows they are right and doesn't care about the bridges she has burned, but Delgado is unsure and afraid that he will lose his position and credibility if he does. She concurs that Marco Inaros threw an invisible asteroid at Earth and is almost certainly going to send more, so they need to retask the Earth's watchtower satellites (which can penetrate stealth technology) to their asteroid spotters. Delgado realizes that the Hasami's readings could imply that the asteroid was coated in stealth technology, which would make it invisible to Earth's asteroid spotters, while Avasarala mentions Bobbie's findings and the Martian conspiracy to smuggle military resources to the Belt, including stealth composites. Alaoui is confused about the implications, but they quickly remind him not to talk to anyone about the meeting and send him away. He replies that the blast would be about 1-4 megatons, the equivalent of a medium yield fusion warhead, with a blast radius of 13 kilometers.ĭr.

Delgado asks what would happen if an asteroid of the combined size of all the fragments hit Earth.

Alaoui realizes that the readings have captured only one side of each fragment, as if the other side was invisible. They cordially invite him to sit down and offer him a drink, noting that their exchange is highly classified and he should not talk about it with anyone, before showing him the Hasami's last readings on the asteroid fragments. Alaoui, a private sector scientist who is familiar with the Hasami and the rogue asteroid they discovered. She is tense, so Delgado tries to tell a joke to lift the mood but, before he can deliver the punchline, they are interrupted by the arrival of Dr.

On Luna, Admiral Delgado is pouring a drink for himself and Avasarala. The episode begins with an ominous virtual projection showing Marco Inaros's asteroids, on course towards Earth. A second opinion from the private sector
