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Requires the recall, administrative process and medical qualification be shown before he returns - no instant reactivation. chapter 19 - his competence beat: when the shared combat board becomes stale or spoofed, Ansel has Salient's sector fall back to authenticated optical cross-links, independent inertial plots and written challenge/acknowledgement procedure while the network picture remains faster but untrustworthy. The sector survives the false picture.
The Outer Run - his competence beat: when the shared combat board becomes stale or spoofed, Ansel has Salient's sector fall back to authenticated optical cross-links, independent inertial plots and written challenge/acknowledgement procedure while the network picture remains faster but untrustworthy. The sector survives the false picture. Missing, Presumed, chapter 37 - his death: Salient holds a weak sector using that fallback. Interceptor depletion and a damaged radiator/power bus force a staged withdrawal. A conventional hit drives spall through the command deck and kills him. Wardell, injured but functional, assumes command and completes the withdrawal. A later thermal/power cascade makes Salient unrecoverable after the surviving crew abandon ship. No farewell transmission.