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Galactic night of barbarism for no one knows how many thousand years."

"We don't want anything like that to happen!" Tom Brangwyn said, in a
frightened voice.

"Then pull everybody out of here and blow the place up, Merlin along
with it," Shanlee said.

"No! We'll not do that!" Fawzi shouted. "I'll shoot the man dead who
tries it!"[Pg 175]

"Why didn't you people blow Merlin up?" Conn asked.

"We'd built it; we'd worked with it. It was part of us, and we were part
of it. We couldn't. Besides, there was a chance that it might survive
the Federation; when a new civilization arose, it would be useful. We
just sealed it. There were fewer than a hundred of us who knew about it.