Then the fleet got under way, and we steamed slowly down to Santiago.

If we can hurt them badly enough, we'll have another year or so to extend the defenses before the main fleet gets here.

Even if I somehow do absolutely everything just right, some ships are going to be lost before this fleet gets home.

"And what will happen when your fleet gets here?"

No fleet in the world can get past their war boats.

Immediately after this the fleet got under way again.

But then, when the fighters and the fleet got closer, many things happened at once.

This series took place after the fleet got to Earth.

But passenger traffic was up four percent a year, and the commercial fleet wasn't getting younger.

But then, how did his fleet get far enough out of orbit to engage the Patrol?