Back To The Fighting

Continued from here:

approaching the bridge, Banning and his companions are fired at by Gentry, who had shot open the door and is bracing himself against it while covering those inside;

when Banning's group have taken cover, Gentry agrees to parley with Devon who, however, emerging from cover, launches himself towards Gentry in the zero gravity;

Gentry non-fatally wounds Devon with a bullet but is then fatally wounded by knives thrown by Banning;

(a bullet is less harmful in free fall because the target bounces away from it and Devon presented his chest so that the bones could act as armor);

Gomez, still in the engine room, gives them an hour to surrender before he wrecks the ship;

Devon, briefly revived from his coma, at last explains that Gomez and co are Western Reformists - Andreyev was an Engineer expelled from the Order and the "non-political" Order's Intelligence arm knew in general of the Reformists' plans.

So now we have another cliff-hanger as Banning and his men must respond to the threat from Gomez.