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g to his half complete report.
"Have they what! They're right miffed because someone dropped a nuke on a
high plateau area of Acheron. That was you, I take it?"
"Bishop gave me the codes to drop one from orbit on the Alien ship, so no
other poor souls would stumble across it."
"Wish I'd seen it. For years we've looked at those nukes and stencilled on
them, but we never got to actually use one. And I slept through it all. Don't
tell me, they can bill you for it?"
"Yeah, well, the tabs getting quite big. It won't make much difference."
That night was Hicks' second of normal sleep in a row. He didn't miss the
cryogenic alternative in the least. You never dreamed in cryosleep. Maybe
that was another reason why the military preferred it.
Another off duty time. This time Hicks memories flashed back to the time on
Tionis.
Bored bored bored. They were in temporary accommodation, playing craps and
racing the Insects someone had collected, while awaiting
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