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ask where his orders had come from when there was a bright flash
from several of the screens on the console. Quickly glancing down, they saw
the carrier engulfed in a huge explosion. The pilot became a flurry of
activity, activating scanners and calling the ship, but there was no answer.
No other craft had escaped; there were no survivors. Wendy didn't know what
false information the had organism had fed the ship and it's crew to acheive
such a spectacular result, but Yuko Ogura hoped desparately that what it had told
the observers on Earth was as good.
The shuttle landed and soon everything was back to normal. The Imperial
troops on the merchant ship and on the ground surrended when they heard their
base ship had been destroyed; they were released and sent by slow liner back
to Earth. The Prophylactan specification document eventually revealed a
series of sound frequencies that were the recall signal for the invaders to
return to the ship, which was then anihilated. Maria managed to give one
full report of the events onscreen, and then later avoided the topic as if
she had been asked not to mention it again. Everything was soon forgotte
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