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touchdown area, to await their turn to be lifted up to the SDF-3. Their
preference in the matter wasn't asked; they were an important-perhaps crucial-
military intelligence resource now, even though they were just as mystified as
anybody else.
There were confused snatches of conversation and fragments of scenes as
Rem guided Cabell along in the general milling.
There were the two young cadets Rem had come to know as Karen Penn and
Jack Baker. They had been pressed into service as crowd controllers and
expediters of the evacuation. Jack kept trying to catch Karen's eye and call
some sort of jest or other; she just spared him the occasional withering
glance and concentrated on her duties.
Rem couldn't blame her. What could be funny about a situation like this?
Was Jack psychologically malfunctional?
Then there was the singer, Minmei, Janice Em's partner, possessed of a
voice so moving that it defied logic, and a face and form of unsettling
appeal. The one they called Colonel Wolff seemed to be trying to usher her
along, seemed to be proprietary toward her, but she wasn't having any of it.
In fact, it appeared that she was about to burst into that startling and
alarming human physiological aberration called tears.
The Ghost and Skull and GMU teams were cooperating like mind-linked
Triumvirates, though Rem had seen them ready to come to blows only a short
time before.
He look about for Janice Em, Minmei's partner and harmony and, in some
measure, alter ego, but couldn't see her. She had been with Lang only moments
before, but now Lang was gone, too. Rem tried to push troubling thoughts from
his mind, such as the rumors that were rife about Lang and Janice. Lang was
supposed to be like an uncle to her, though some said he was "much more."
But what? Rem barely understood the concept "uncle," and had no idea
what "much more" might mean. Yet his cheeks flushed, and he felt a puzzling
rage when he thought of Jan having some nebulous relationship to Lang that
would make the old Human scientist more important to her than, than...
Then all at once Rem and Cabell were being rushed into a shuttle, and a
sliding hatch cut off the haunted nighttime view of ruined Tiresia.


CHAPTER TWO
I never got tired of covering the Hunters, the admirals. To me, they were a
perfect couple, the best the Earth could field But in another sense, the enemy
had fielded his worst
Susan Graham, narration from documentary Protoculture's Privateers. SDF-3,
Farrago, Sentinels, and the REF

On the bridge of the Superdimensional Fortress Three, Lisa Hayes surveyed the
preparations for battle and despaired, thinking the REF diplomatic mission
might be doomed to find nothing but war.
Approximately twenty minutes had passed since the unidentified
dreadnought was spotted, and it was nearly upon them. Yet it had not responded
to any visual or electromagnetic signal. Peace was important to her, but so
were the lives of her crew and the survival of her command. She was as edgy as
any enlisted-rating gunner, but didn't have the luxury of simply hoping she