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mostly come from a whole group of immigrants called 'Raum.' He gargled
the initial consonant. 'Spelled with a single mark in front, so you can
tell it ain't pronounced like real people talk.

'The 'Raum came to C-Cumbre a few hundred years ago, my man told me.
Believed they oughta own the universe. Instead, they're doon th' mine,
like they say, which is where most fanatics belong, working for the
smarter crooks who got there first.

'Guess some of 'em don't like the swing of things, so they're running up
and down in the hills playing bandit and snipin' anybody who doesn't
agree with 'em.

'That'll be one of our targets, I s'pose.'

'How do we tell them apart from the people we're defending?' Garvin
asked.

'Hopefully because they're shooting at our young asses,' Kipchak
answered. 'But they're supposed to be shorter, stockier, darker and,
according to those who call themselves their betters, with all the bad
habits anybody who's unlucky enough to be dealt the bottom card has.

'Anyway, the big squeaker is the mines are worked both by men and by
Musth.'

'What're they?' Njangu asked. 'I never paid much attention to aliens.
Never saw one to steal something from, I guess.'

'Big tall creatures,' Garvin said. 'I saw a holo on them. They look like
big, skinny cats walking on two legs. Got a long ' neck, as I recall,
and moved real fast. They looked like they could be bad news in a
fight.'

'That's them,' Petr agreed. 'They're supposed to be as touchy as a whore
the night before the troops get paid. I've never been around 'em, but a
mate of mine has, and he said they're real quick to get nasty.

'Anyway, that's about all I know.'

'Can I ask you something?' Njangu said.

'I said I owe you.'

'You've been in the service before?'

'Yeh. I join up, get pissed off, get out, can't stand the way civilians
piddle around, join up again... guess I oughta go one or the other,'
Kipchak sighed. 'Tried settlin' down once or twice, but it didn't stick.