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Updated: May 7, 2025
Watched every moment, for any sign of treason. Your flagship will be a small ten-man blaster-boat one of our own. You gave us one; we'll give you one. At the worst, we will come out even. At the best, your admittedly brilliant grasp of tactics and strategy will enable us to save thousands of Kerothi lives, to say nothing of the immense savings in time and money."
The High Commander paused for a moment, then he said: "Proceed with the investment of the insignia." The Strategy General Sebastian MacMaine, sometime Colonel of Earth's Space Force, and presently a General of the Kerothi Fleet, looked at the array of stars that appeared to drift by the main viewplate of his flagship, the blaster-boat Shudos.
As long as their antiacceleration fields were on, they could take unimaginable thrusts along their axes, but the A-A fields were the cause of those thrusts as well as the protection against them. The ships couldn't stand still while they were operating, so they were no protection at all against a planet's gravity. But a blaster-boat was small enough and compact enough to take the strain.
Even to an intelligent man, the mask of stupidity can become a barrier to the outside world as well as a concealment from it. The Interstellar Ship Manila was a small, fast, ten-man blaster-boat, designed to get in to the thick of a battle quickly, strike hard, and get away.
So maybe he'd dosed himself with a few hundred Roentgens so what? A little radiation never hurt a dead man. But he knew now that there was no possibility of escape. The drive was wrecked, and the only other means of escape, the one-man courier boat that every blaster-boat carried, had been sent out weeks ago and had never returned. If only the courier boat were still in its cradle
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