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Lord November
A Tale of Continuing Time SS
Daniel Keys Moran




Copyright 1994 by Daniel Keys Moran.
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DESCRIPTION: Prolog and first two chapters of the novel УLord November: The
Man-Spacething War.Ф
Lord November:
The Man-Spacething War
A Tale of the Continuing Time



Prolog:
The Shepherds
2049 Gregorian
On Tuesday, October 5, 2049, a starship of the Zaradin Church exited Sol
SystemТs Second Gate.
Not just any starship; this was a Cathedral, one of nine to be found in the
galaxy. SolТs Second Gate lies outside the orbit of Saturn, and far off the
ecliptic; but had the Cathedral stayed at the Second Gate long enough, darkened
though it was, humanity would have found it in time, through its gravitational
disturbance upon the orbits of the other bodies in the System. It was that
large.
The Dalmastran who crewed the Cathedral did not plan to stay long enough for
that to happen. They had more important business than this minor matter, the
collection of a species that had so recently begun to boast of its existence,
pouring radio waves and television and lasers indiscriminately out into the
interstellar darkness. They did not want their existence known to humanityЧnot
out of any concern for humanityТs reaction, but because they did not want the
Sleem empire to know they had passed this way.
And as they had already observed, humans were distressingly disinclined to keep
silent about themselves, or, the Dalmastran presumed, about those they met.
The DalmastranТs concern about the empire might have been overcautious; some in