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Timothy Zahn
Conquerors' Pride
Conquerors Saga, book 1
1
They were there, all right, exactly where the tachyon wake-trail pickup on Dorcas had projected they
would be: four ships, glittering faintly in the starlight of deep space, blazing with infrared as they
dumped the heat that zero-point energy friction had generated during their trip. They were small
ships, probably no bigger than Procyon-class; milky white in color, shaped like thick hexagonal
slabs of random sizes attached to each other at random edges.
Alien as hell.
"Scan complete, Commodore," the man at the Jutland's sensor station reported briskly. "No other
ships registering."
"Acknowledged," Commodore Trev Dyami said, flexing his shoulders beneath his stiffly starched
first contact with a new self-starfaring race in a quarter of a century.
And it was his. All his. Trev Dyami and the Jutland would be the names listed in the
Commonwealth's news reports and, eventually, in its history books.
Warrior's luck, indeed.
He turned to the tactics station, fully aware that everything he said and did from this point on would
be part of that history-book listing. "What's the threat assessment?" he asked.
"I estimate point one to point four, sir," the tactics officer reported. "I don't find any evidence of
fighter ejection tubes or missile ports."
"They've got lasers, though, Commodore," the tactics second put in. "There are clusters of optical-
discharge lenses on the leading edges of each ship."
"Big enough to be weapons?" the exec asked from Dyami's side.
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"Hard to tell, sir," the other said. "The lenses themselves are pretty small, but that by itself doesn't
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