"John Dalmas - The Regiment A Trilogy" - читать интересную книгу автора (Dalmas John)

nonetheless, the garthids did not want humans to settle in their sector. So
the people of the ships got from them the boundary coordinates* of the
garthid sector and went on, not visiting any more worlds until they were
well away. Our ancestors did not want anything to do with wars, because
the wars they knew had been so indiscriminate* and unethical.
At last the little fleet of ships came to systems far enough away that again
they paused here and there to explore for a world they could live on. Soon
they found one. It was our own Tyss.
But meanwhile, certain things had happened on the ships. By that time
they had been gone from their home planet for more than four of our years.
And what did they do, enclosed in a crowded ship for more than four
years? The crews were busy, of course, operating the ships and taking
care of them. The other people had certain things to do too, such as
taking care of children and cleaning. But still, much of the time they had
nothing needful to do, and they were quite crowded. So they sat about and
talked a great deal. And having nothing like the T'sel, soon they were
bickering.* Before long, some of them came to dislike others quite
strongly.
Factions arose. A faction is a set of people who feel very strongly in favor
of some one thing or set of things, or against some one thing or set of
things. It is a group of people who disagree with others, and it exists only
in reaction to its polar* opposites. Factions are a major cause of
destructive war, which is to say, the kind of war that does not respect the
different Ways.
So before they had been very long on their journey, the rulers of the fleet
recognized that they carried with them the seeds* of the very kind of war
they had fled from! For given time, the factions would surely start to fight
among themselves! Therefore the rulers began to counsel together about
what they might do to avoid war. But they did not have the T'sel: They
could not see how such wars could be avoided.
But they did know that the destructiveness of indiscriminate war is
proportional* to the destructiveness of the weapons used. Also, the human
mind is prone to explore the operating rules of the physical universe. You
already know something about that. When done in a particular
systematic* way, following certain rules and limitations, this exploration
was known then by the names "science"* and "research."* Certain
operating rules of the physical universe, or approximations* of them, which
science discovered and described, could be used to do things with, or to
make things with. And the doing and making were known as
"technology."* The weapons of their huge destructive war had been crafted
by technology, by using the knowledge from science.
The rulers recognized all that.
Now, on the ships, not all of the people together had the knowledge to
make those hugely destructive weapons. For theirs had not been a world
which emphasized science. And indeed, not even their ships' computers,*
in which they stored their knowledge, had any great part of the knowledge
needed to make those weapons. But the rulers believed that the human
mind, free to do research, would in time redevelop that knowledge and
once again make those weapons. And this worried them greatly.
Yet they did not want to give up the machines which enabled them to live