"I have continued to do so. To put it bluntly, if Luna City is destroyed and I am dead and the rest of the government is dead—even if all Mike’s radar eyes here are blinded and he himself is cut off from the new catapult—all of which may happen under severe bombardment. . . even if all this happens at once, Mike still gives Luna even chances if Little David’s Sling can operate—and you are there to operate it."