He invoked a bean-bag chair, fell backward into it, and went boneless. "I’m indebted to you, Neil, for reminding me how much we used to love these things." After a pause, "So anyway, the carnage is just incredible. We lost 90% of our ships, and I don’t know if we have enough busters and bombs left at this point to hold off a Girl Scout troop. But we’ve knocked out every piece of Others’ hardware in the system. Except Bellerophon , of course. And we’ve got drones doing full reconnaissance, just in case. We’ve all seen the movies where everyone relaxes too soon. No thanks."