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questions about
my motives.
I agree with you totally that these pests that have invaded your planet have
to be eliminated. That's as important to me as it is to you, and it's
probably a lot more important than you realize".
Wendy spoke. "So we sit here and listen to the ravings of some man who comes
here, doesn't know our culture, doesn't know our problem, and admits the only
reason he's here is so his profits don't drop? Why? What can you do for us
that we can't do for ourselves".
The captain smiled at some private joke and continued. "I'll tell you.
While you ladies sit here fucking around with your little animal welfare
society, the balance of power is shifting. You're so totally blissed out,
here on a rock that nobody wants, that you don't even have a standing army.
Your Security division makes the cooks in my galley look like kill-mutants in
powered battle armour".
Wendy glanced toward Carli and saw that Ran Monbu was bristling at that, but was
keeping amazingly silent.
"You don't communicate with anybody, you hardly do any trade; the only
reason you're not still part of the Empire is that the revolution pushed
their borders back so far that they weren't willing to send ships out here
any more".
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