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

time for that. Where did all that grey at his temples come from? All
at once Varien wished they had, after all, donned the full virtual
reality gear. A virtual embrace would have been better than none at


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all.



***


The next day, the global datanet interrupted the daily war news with
the announcement that Varien hleтАЩMorna, fabulously wealthy
manufacturer of spacecraft and related technologies, holder of
numerous scientific honors, discoverer of the displacement points
that had given humankind the stars (and the Korvaasha, some
muttered, though all admitted that the aliensтАЩ inexorable expansion
would eventually have carried them to the Tareil system anyway)
had died in a freak aircar accident. The body fragments found in the
wreck made the identification certainтАФ as they should have done,
having been cloned and force-grown expressly for the purpose.
Raehans great loss was duly remarked upon, suitable obsequies
were utteredтАж and the world went back to awaiting its end.



***


In the outer reaches of the system, beyond the orbit of the outermost
gas giant, where Tareil itself was little more than a yellow zero-
magnitude star, a heavily stealthed ship rendezvoused with a small
fleet of like vessels. In a little while, the ships began accelerating
still further outward. Each of them, upon reaching a certain location

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in the void, suddenly surrounded itself with a momentary, space-
distorting pulse of artificial gravitationтАж and vanished.
Presently, only two ships were left. They remained, with only the
occasional absentminded flare of thrust needed to keep them on
station near the region of nothingness that had swallowed their
fellows, and monitored the reports of the robotic proxies that kept