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But profits? Losses? These were the key and critical bits of information
played out on the holographic projections.


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Studying his hologram intently, one Darhel burst out, "Lords of Creation,
the loss of capital to this invasion is unsupportable! Factories lost?
Profits squeezed? Trade imbalanced? Staggering! Intolerable! It must not
be allowed to continue." Almost overcome by his own unseemly and even
dangerous outburst, the Darhel then lowered his head, forced his
breathing into a calm, steady, measured pace while reciting a mantra to
fight off lintatai, a form of catatonia inevitably resulting in death, to
which the Darhel were uniquely susceptible.

The Ghin, first among equals of those present, silently tsk-tsked,
thinking, These young ones, and especially of the Urdan clan, are so
emotional. They must spend half their lives bringing themselves to the
very edge of lintatai, the other half recovering from that. Not for the first
time the Ghin regretted the system of galactic control which allowed even
third-rate Darhel to amass power and wealth, at the inevitable expense of
the Indowy. Not that he cared a whit for the Indowy. But the Ghin was
not without some sympathy for the plight of the Urdan. He knew they
were very heavily leveraged. And they tended to produce far too many
third-rate minds.

Whatever his thoughts, the Ghin knew that a Ghin must lead. "Fear not
about losses of capital. Fear instead the extermination of our people if
this plague of Posleen is not contained."

The Urdan leader looked up from his attempt to stave off catatonia and
death just long enough to ask, "And what are you doing about it?" His
head immediately dropped again, his lips playing the life-saving mantra.

"Everything possible," the Ghin returned calmly. "Armies and fleets of the
barbarian mercenaries, the humans, are already engaged in holding the
frontier, even in rolling it back in places. Projections show that, with
current-sized forces, and with the ability to breed more human
mercenaries from among their children we have taken as our . . .
guests . . . we shall be able to insulate and isolate ourselves until this
plague has passed. Look for yourselves."

With a wave of an arm, every hologram changed to show a map of the

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