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the rest of them have this duplicate Force Command thing first, though.
Keep them happy. As soon as we have that opened, you can take a gang and
run over to Barathrum and grab your spaceport. Wait till they find out
that Merlin isn't at Force Command Duplicate. Then you can convince them
it's really on Koshchei."

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    VI

The car Rodney Maxwell got out of the hangar the next morning wasn't the
one he and Conn had gone to the meeting in; it was the one he had flown
in from Tenth Army HQ at noon of the previous day. An Army
reconnaissance job, slim and needlelike, completely enclosed, looking
more like a missile than a vehicle, and armored in dazzling, iridescent
collapsium. There was something to living on Poictesme, at that; only a