Explore "A Matter of Magnitude" by Al Sevcik on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
_When you're commanding a spaceship over a mile / long, and armed to the teeth, you don't exactly / expect to be told to get the hell out._
The ship, for reasons that had to do with the politics of appropriations, was named Senator Joseph L. Holloway, but the press and the public called her Big Joe. Her captain, six-star Admiral Heselton, thought of her as Great Big Joe, and never fully got over being awestruck at the size of his command.