"Alice."  He purposely verbalized so Kat could hear.  "Can you run part of the gunnery, if needed?  I'm pretty good at it, but rusty."<br/>*No Prob, Chief!  I know these systems well.  Very similar to two of the batteries on the tanker.*<br/>He felt a little better to hear that.  If something happened to him, Kat would be protected.<br/>He ran repeated scans across all bands. Nothing. Nothing. Nope. Nada. Ne. Nicht. No. Nein. Ei ye...wait!  That was a lot of chromium in that meteor.  *Shields up*<br/>.23 seconds later, the stealthed stinger fired and lit up their shields.  Just in time. Whew.<br/>"Fire to kill or try to disable Captain...drops accuracy by 42%."