Jim's lips are pressed together. He shakes his head; nothing wrong yet.
"Not about to change," he corrects. Jedao wasn't wrong about that, exactly, but -- "Cascade failure's already started." Everything that they knew is about to go. World's already changed, it just hasn't realized it yet.
And that change is going to be a shooting war between Earth and Mars and the Belt, thinks Holden, fears Holden. He can imagine Fred Johnson opening up the warhead with the protomolecule inside, twisting open the casing, and there it is, blue glow and all, a material a billion times more explosive than uranium was to the 20th century.
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"Not about to change," he corrects. Jedao wasn't wrong about that, exactly, but -- "Cascade failure's already started." Everything that they knew is about to go. World's already changed, it just hasn't realized it yet.
And that change is going to be a shooting war between Earth and Mars and the Belt, thinks Holden, fears Holden. He can imagine Fred Johnson opening up the warhead with the protomolecule inside, twisting open the casing, and there it is, blue glow and all, a material a billion times more explosive than uranium was to the 20th century.