Hmmm…that doesn’t really make sense, either, because plenty of ships transit after the Barkeith; it ends up being kind of a convenient plot device but is never really explained enough that the main characters could dependably use it to destroy the Pella. And it is a bit of a deus ex machina solution to tie up loose ends instead of dealing with the messiness of a failed attack by the Free Navy and having to cope with a continuing insurrection. Really, the sixth series just suffered from a desire to wrap up loose ends (save for those laid to feed into the next story) in contrast to all previous series that always had open storylines. As much as people griped about the story on Ilus dominating the fourth series and how shoehorned Bobby Draper was, it was far more narratively consistent and advanced the story and worldbuilding than this series was.
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