THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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We all took an oath of secrecy. We spent the rest of our lives trying to
suppress any mention of Merlin or the Merlin Project. You have no idea
how shocked both General Travis and I were when you told us that the
story was still current here on Poictesme. And when we found that you'd
been getting into the records of the Third Force, I took the next ship I
could, a miserable little freighter, and when I landed and found out
what was happening, I contacted Murchison and scared the life out of him
with stories about a secessionist conspiracy. All this Armageddonist,
Human Supremacy, Merlin-is-the-Devil, stuff that's been going on was
started by Murchison. And he succeeded in scaring Vyckhoven with the
Cybernarchists, too."

"This computation on the future of the Federation is still in the
back-work file?" Conn asked.

Shanlee nodded. "We were criminally reckless; I can see that, now. Let
me beg, again, that you destroy the whole thing."