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weapons and miscellaneous smallarms firing, including an illegal sidearm. Can
you honestly say nobody could have been hit by friendly or ricochet fire?
Hicks was impassive.
"Corporal Hicks."
"No, Sir."
"Thank you. Now, after withdrawal you and the other soldiers are on tape
discussing solutions to the problem on hand. Promptly you agreed with Ripleys
suggestion of nuking the colony. Presumably this would have been carried out
had things not gone further wrong. There were perfectly reasonable
alternatives on hand you could have considered. Withdrawing to await heavier
weapons. Chemical attack. You could have consulted higher authority and had a
reply in 2 days. Why did you decide to ignore all procedures at the spur of
the moment?"
"We were the people on the spot. With biochemistry that weird, they might
have snorted any chemicals we threw at them. They took us to pieces, the odds
are the result would have would have been the same no matter what weapons w
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