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Carrmak heard thefiring mechanism click, and saw the look of shock on the boy's face; therehad been no round in the chamber. He hadn't thought to get acool-suit, and had had the choice of either going later or going withoutone. The current first wave of troopers had reached the ditch on the south sideof the road, and lay on the side of Jerym Alsnor sat twisted in his bench seat to watch, feeling uncomfortableat what he saw.

]Year 21,502-A powerful Garthid invasion of the Confederation is launched,its intention the destruction of human civilization. They wereworried about what the T'swa might do. This promised to be a different kind of action than the drive to the seathat spring: more venturesome, less predictable. r General of the Confederation of Worlds; andColonel Jil-Zat, a uniformed T'swi who could almost have been carved fromobsidian.