Cockiness that might have proved to be his undoing, if the Ohm attempting to attack him from below hadn't had a hole punched through it by a streak that was too small to be a ship. The object then lanced another Shrike with twin beams of red light.

<Please save all "look, up in the sky" comments until after the battle.> Clark said through the comm-ring. He didn't really need to breathe, and he could fly in a vacuum. Hitching a ride on the Quarter to the space battle had seemed like a fairly obvious idea.