21) N-N3
N x N
"Battle cruiser coming forward to intercept."
"Robot battery 5, attack enemy battery opposite."
22) R x N
P x P
"He took the bait. Second destroyer group moving forward."
"Mongoose forward to column two. Starboard guns to standby alert."
23) N x P
K-N2
"Still coming right at us, corridor one."
"Let him come. Light cruiser, heading C-four."
24) P-R5
B-B4
An unfamiliar voice. "Colonel. My instruments show a strange energy
field materializing before the enemy battle station, bearing 00 to 04,
F-six. Apparently a highly charged, extremely dense mass of negative
ions."
Hearing this, Brunner's senses came suddenly, vividly to life. Some
half remembered, theoretical principal of matter..... As the fear
materialized in thought, he was filled with a dread such as he had
seldom experienced.
Looking up, he saw that Dubcek too was unnerved. He turned toward the
speaker as calmly as he could and said, "Link up with the main ship's
computer. Keep me posted."