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it's done already; the whole planet's in anarchy. If we let this go on...."

"We can't decide anything like that, just the five of us," Brangwyn was
insisting. "We'll have to get the others together and see what they
think. We have no right to make any decision like this for them."

"They're no more able to make the decision than we are," Conn said.

"But we've got to; they have a right to know...."

"If you decide to destroy Merlin, you'll have to decide to kill me,
first," Kurt Fawzi said, his voice deadly calm. "You won't do it while
I'm alive."

"But, Kurt," Ledue expostulated. "You know why these people here at
Storisende are rioting? It's because they've[Pg 177] lost hope, because
they're afraid and desperate. The Terran Federation is something