然后二十三章开头
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
0500 Hours, July 18, 2552 (Military Calendar) /
UNSCIroquois , military staging area in orbit around Sigma Octanus IV
这章大致在扯KEYES舰长的一堆心理活动和舰队撤出Sigma Octanus星系返回REACH。时间上来看应该是7月18号0500 Hours,发生在上一章的2010 Hours之前。可是这似乎不太合逻辑啊,舰队不是等所有的DROPSHIP都安全返回了才撤出的么(Captain Keyes saw the last of the Marine dropships returning from the planet surface.)?
另外一句话:Côte d’Azur was now a smoldering crater—but Sigma Octanus IV was still a human-held world.说明这确实发生在核弹引爆之后……