 Seafort refused the offer, angering Holser greatly, and ending the friendship that had grown between them.Holser became the Commander of the fastship "Victoria", and was ultimately killed when he knocked Seafort out, placed him in a lifeboat, and remained on Hope Nation's Orbit Station to detonate the station's nuclear device and destroy the flotilla of Fish that had gathered around it.Thomas Keene was the senior midshipman of the naval academy during Seafort's tenure as commandant.