In one of those big white colonial houses in Calcutta or someplace like that,
Colonel Bradford-Shelby and Director Chen-Wu watched the feed from the agent at the
Dome....things were looking somewhat confused....what was living and what was dead?
How does one define those terms? The Colonel poured more brandy from the crystal
carafe, and shot in a splash from the silver and glass soda water shooting thingy,
whatever that is really called....the Director thanked him for the drink, took a
good long sip, and said:
"Damn it Bradford-Shelby, it looks like we'll have to run the old terminate, a what?"
To Sir With Love
13 years ago
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One of the Colonel's cousins, William Robert "BillyBob" Shelby, was at this same time just coming off watch aboard the HSS Impeccable, on deep frontier patrol out of Orion Base. Security Council had decided that the HSS shouldn't use nasty warlike names for the ships anymore, like Triumph, or Warrior, or Smasher....we want to seem nice and peaceful to the peoples around us, like the Insect Empire, and the Lizard Nomad Hoard. So the flagship was Impeccable, and the escort stardestroyers were the Truth and the Beauty. The signal frigate Elf was still out of comm range, operating in stealth mode within what was actually Insect space, but we don't want to talk about that too much.
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