"Elizabeth Moon - Planet Pirates 02 - Generation Warriors" - читать интересную книгу автора (Moon Elizabeth)

"We have resources they don't know about," Sassinak said, and not for the first time. It did not reassure
her.



The convivial mood in which Sassinak and Lunzie had first made their plans to combine forces against
the planet pirates had long since evaporated. They had been carried by the euphoria following the
incredible Thek cathedral which had dispensed right justice to Captain Cruss who had illegally landed a
heavyworlder colony transport ship on the planet Ireta, right under the bows of Sassinak's pursuing
cruiser. The Thek conference had elicited considerable fascinating information about the Captain's
superiors. Apart from sorting out the problem of which race "owned" Ireta, the Thek had departed
without reference to bringing the perpetrators of planet pirating to a similar justice.



Neither Sassinak nor Lunzie felt they would be lucky enough to obtain more support from the Thelcs,
even if that long-lived race were the oldest of the space-faring species. Theks rarely interfered with
members of the various ephemeral species that they had discovered over the centuries. Only when, as on
Ireta, some ancient plan of their own might be jeopardized would they intervene. As a rule, Thek
permitted all their



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client races, from the lizard-like Seti, the shape-changing Wefts, the marine Ssli down to humans, to
"dree their ain weirds," No sooner than the Thek had resolved the matter of Ireta then they had departed,
leaving Sassinak and Lunzie with an irresistible challenge: to seek out and destroy those who indulged in
the most daring sort of piracyтАФthe rape and pillage of entire planets and the mass enslavement of their
legally resident populations. The problems were immense. Sassinak was too experienced a commander
to ignore real problems, and Lunzie had seen too many good plans go wrong herself. Lunzie, sprawled
comfortably on the white leather cushions in Sassinak's office, watched her distant ofispring with
amusement. She was so young to be so old.



"So are you," Sassinak retorted.



Lunzie felt herself reddening.



"There's no such thing as telepathy," she said. "It's never been demonstrated under controlled
conditions."
 "Twins do it," Sassinak said. "I read that somewhere. And other close relatives, sometimes. As for you
and me . . . nobody knows what that many deepfreezes have done to your brain, and what my life's done