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Freehold
Michael Z. Williamson

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed
in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or
incidents is purely coincidental.

Copyright й 2004 by Michael Z. Williamson

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or
portions thereof in any form.

A Baen Books Original

Baen Publishing Enterprises
P.O. Box 1403
Riverdale, NY 10471
www.baen.com

ISBN: 0-7434-7179-2

Cover art by David Mattingly

First printing, January 2004

Distributed by Simon & Schuster
1230 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020

Production by Windhaven Press, Auburn, NH
Printed in the United States of America

To my parents:

We disagree on so many things,
but I am who I am because of you.
Chapter 1

"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous
circumstances would have lain dormant."

ЧQuintus Horatius Flaccus



Sergeant Second Class Kendra Pacelli, UNPF, was looking
forward to finally finishing the admin from her deployment to Mtali.
The entire experience had been unpleasant, from the tedious,
cramped trip there in a military transport, to the tedious, cramped