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done anything more or less than to wipe out the isenj cities. He had no idea why this question continued
to plague him. "If they come intent on exploitation, I will remove them."

"Sir, is it something I should fear?"

"You'll be long dead if the worst happens," Aras said. "But I'll live to see it."

He would live to see it all.

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I will be honest in all my dealings with others.

I will avoid experiments on feeling life-forms wherever possible.

I will safeguard the environment.

I will not plagiarize or hinder the work of other scientists, nor knowingly publish false research.

I will put the common good before professional pride or profit.


THE DA VINCI OATH,
popularly known as the Scientists' Oath,
amended 2078

Mars Orbital
April 25, 2299

I'm going home.

"Good morning," said Shan Frankland, and held up her warrant card. "We're from Environmental Hazard
Enforcement. Please, step away from the console."

She loved those words. They cast a spell. They laid bare men's souls, if you knew how to look. She
looked around the administration center and in three seconds she knew the man at the desk was
uninvolved, the woman marshaling traffic was surprised by the intrusion, and the man lounging against the
drinks machineтАжwell, his face was too composed and his eyes were moving just wrong. He was the
fis-sure in the rock. She would cleave it apart.

I'm going home. Five days, tops.

"Inspector McEvoy," she said, and motioned her bagman forward. "Over to you." She put her warrant
card back in her top pocket and stood watching while her technical team flowed in and put in override
codes on all Mars Orbital's systems. The station was temporarily hers.

This is the last time I'll have to do this.

"May I?" She walked across to the station's video circuit. The traffic marshal stepped aside. She settled
into the seat and tapped the transmission key.