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Conn nodded. He'd seen them before he had gone away, and from the /City
of Asgard/ coming in?a lot of old Army Transport craft, covered with
muslin and sprayed with protectoplast. The Planetary Government had
taken them over after the War and forgotten them.

"Well, Lester's getting one of them for us under the old 878 Commercial
Enterprise Encouragement Act. She's an Army combat freighter, regimental
ammunition ship. Of course, she still has armament; we'll have to pay to
get that off."

"Why?"

Fawzi looked at him in surprise. "It would only be in the way and add
weight. We want her for a cargo ship, don't we?"

"That's what she was built for. What kind of armament?"