Transcription: Flag in Exile by David Webber. Prolog. Admiral of the Green, Hamish Alexander, 13th Earl of Whitehaven, sat on HMS Queen Katrin's flag deck and gazed into his display. The Nightingale system's G3 primary was a white speck of fire, and its single habitable planet, too distant to be seen on visuals, showed as a tiny blue-green light deep in the plot. And so did the angry red rash of enemy warships between it and Queen Katrin. And Whitehaven studied that crimson wall of light with care. The people's navy's censors had detected him hours ago, but the peeps hadn't tried anything fancy. They'd simpl ...
