"Steve White - The Disinherited" - читать интересную книгу автора (White Steve)

Korvaasha the secret of faster-than-light interstellar travel without
recourse to displacement pointsтАФand, I repeat, that is precisely
what turning it over to our government would amount toтАФwould be
to remove all limits to the militaristic expansion their ideology
commands them to pursue. Their capabilities would become as
unbounded as their aims. I will see Raehan go down into the dark
rather than permit my work to be so perverted!тАЭ

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He stopped, as astonished at his own vehemence as they doubtless
were. Tarlann finally broke the silence.
тАЬThe Korvaasha will eventually discover it for themselves. You
yourself have said it is a logical outgrowth of gravities. In fact,
youтАЩve admitted the concept wasnтАЩt original with youтАФyou merely
found a way to make it workable.тАЭ
тАЬWhich is precisely why I have no intention of leaving them in
peace to discover it,тАЭ Varien replied, his normal asperity reasserting
itself. тАЬThe entire purpose of our plans is to secure allies. Raehan
cannot be savedтАФbut it can be liberated.тАЭ
тАЬAnd what makes you so sure the Landaeniv will be ableтАФor
inclinedтАФto do so? YouтАЩve learned enough about them to know
that their technology is laughable compared to ours or even the
KorvaashaтАжтАЭ
тАЬ тАШFar behindтАЩ I will grant,тАЭ Varien interrupted his son. тАЬBut not
тАШlaughableтАЩ. Aelannis people at Lirauva have concluded that we are
looking at a civilization at least as advanced as ours was at the time
of the Third Global War. And it seems probable that for the last
several generations they have been advancing about as rapidly as
we did during that era. So constant change has become an expected
part of their lives; they are intellectually ready to accept the notion
of a still higher technology, and not just fall down and start babbling
of magic. They will be able to understand, utilize, and evenтАФwith
certain exceptionsтАФmanufacture the devices we will explain to
them. And as for why they will be willing to ally themselves with
usтАж well, you seem to have answered your own question. We can
offer them a technological quantum leap. We can offer them the

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stars!тАЭ He paused, then continued more matter-of-factly. тАЬOf course
theyтАЩll have to be approached in the right way. ThatтАЩs why I have to
go myself; I donтАЩt trust anyone else to manage the critical first-
contact stageтАжтАЭ
Arduin barked laughter. тАЬRight! YouтАЩre just what we need when
tact and diplomacy are called for! Varien, you never change.