THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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Command Duplicate was in communication with the rest of Poictesme.

They moved into the staff headquarters at the top; Foxx Travis's office,
tidied up, became the headquarters for the company officials and chief
supervisors. The workmen quartered themselves in the enlisted barracks,
helping themselves liberally to anything they found. The crowds of
sightseers kept swarming in, giving Tom Brangwyn's police plenty to do.
Tom himself turned the marshal's office in Litchfield over to his chief
deputy. Klem Zareff insisted on more men for his guard force. A dozen
gunboats, eighty-foot craft mounting one 90-mm gun, several smaller
auto-cannon and one missile-launcher, had been found; he took them over
immediately, naming them for capital ships of the old System States
Navy. It took some argument to dissuade him from repainting all of them
black and green. He kept them all in the air, with a swarm of smaller
airboats and combat-cars, circling the underground headquarters at a
radius of a hundred miles. These patrols reported a general exodus from
the region. At least a dozen outlaw bands, all with fast contragravity,