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"So, Stanley, what will it be? Will you give the speech? Or take a fall down a ladder? The choice is your"
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The freighter, which was far too large to enter the Unioncity's landing bay, lay a hundred miles off her stern, in orbit above Byron.
The vessel's skipper, an ex-Navy officer named Baddo, had spent fifteen frustrating hours talking his way through the fifty thousand cubic mile defense zone that surrounded the ex-battleship. He might never have succeeded except for the fact that he had served when the Unioncity's XO twelve years before.
Now, with what felt like cargo of lead riding in the bottom of his gut, the merchant officer stood next to the ship's main lock and waited for the
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