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"And yet," Vak of the Ragitagha clan whispered, unable to speak louder
due to the fact that the surgeons had experienced some difficulty in
putting his mouth back together after a challenge duel, "if all goes as
rumors state regarding this project in the Hari sector, within a year we
will see such a growth in our strength as to overwhelm the humans and
end this war."

He looked straight at Thrakhath waiting for a response.

"Even here, Project Hari should not be spoken of," Thrakhath said
hurriedly.

The clan leaders stirred. The project was nothing more than rumors, its
development under the complete control of the Kiranka clan of the
Emperor and the Prince.

"These are our brothers," the Emperor announced from behind the
screen. "Let it be spoken of."

Thrakhath looked back at the screen behind him as if to protest.

"Speak of it."

Jukaga could see the hesitation. It was known that there were a
number of security breaches coming out of the Imperial Palace and the
less said about certain things the better. He could see as well that the
Emperor was playing a maneuver of showing confidence in the other clan
leaders, thus winning favor for acting as if those in his presence were
trusted comrades. He could see the effect on Buktag'ka who puffed up
visibly and leaned forward to hear.
 "Even before these human raids had started," Thrakhath said, "the
Emperor in his wisdom had foreseen certain dangers along these lines and
thus ordered a tremendous investment of wealth and material into the
building of a secret construction yard. It is located in the conquered realm
of the Hari on the far side of our Empire in relationship to the Terran
Confederation."

He took a holo cube out of his breast pocket and loaded it. Jukaga
found this alone to be interesting, that Thrakhath had come to the this
meeting fully prepared to reveal the extent of Project Hari. His own people
had found out most of its well-kept secrets to be sure and it seemed that
Thrakhath had expected Jukaga to force its full revelation at this meeting.

On the main holo screen a map of the Empire appeared, the frontier
with the Confederation at the top, Kilrah and the Empire in the middle,
and far down at the bottom the conquered space of the now dead Hari, a
collection of a thousand stars around which orbited more than a thousand
blasted lifeless worlds.

Thrakhath highlighted a single star on the screen deep within the