"Brin, David - Uplift 5 - Infinity's Shore" - читать интересную книгу автора (Brin David)



Do you recall how Ro-kenn, the surviving Rothen master, swore vengeance on the Six Races, ordering his killer robots forward?

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"Slay everyone in sight! Death to all who saw our secret revealed!"

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But then behold a marvel! Platoons of our own brave militia. They spill from surrounding forest. Jijoan savages, armed only with arrows, pellet rifles, and courage. Do you now recall how they charged the hovering death demons . . . and prevailed!

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The wax does not lie. It happened in mere instants, while these old traeki rings could only stare blankly at the battle's awful ruin, astonished that we/i were not ignited into a stack of flaming tubes.

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Though dead and wounded lay piled around us, victory was clear. Victory for the Six Races! Ro-kenn and his god-' like servants were disarmed, wide-eyed in their offended surprise at this turn of Ifni's ever-tumbling dice.

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Yes, my rings, i know this is not the final memory. It took place many miduras in the past. Obviously something must f have happened since then. Something dreadful.

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Perhaps the Danik scout boat came back from its survey trip, carrying one of the fierce sky-human warriors who worship Rothen patron masters. Or else the main Rothen starship may have returned, expecting a trove of bio-plunder, only to find their samples destroyed, their station ruined, and comrades taken hostage.

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That might explain the scent of sooty devastation that now fills our core.

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But no later memories are yet available. The wax has not congealed.

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To a traeki, that means none of it has really happened.

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Not yet.

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Perhaps things are not as bad as they seem.

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It is a gift we traeki reacquired when we came to Jijo. A talent that helps make up for the many things we left behind, when we abandoned the stars.