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"What in the hell is that?" I asked three weeks later as we surveyed what was to be my new ship. A Fsyth ship had been captured, scanned and released- the crew minus their memories the ship minus everything it recorded in the interim- and now duplicated here. If anything it looked like a spiny space-crustacean but what I couldn't understand was how it worked. "I don't see any means of propulsion." I said. There had been no anti-gravity propulsion outside Kievor or Alartaw control the last time I had been a human for any length of time, at least not that I had been aware of. I supposed it was a wide Universe after all and how was one insignificant being to keep track of it all.
"The Fsyth invented the anti-gravity drive twenty-four years ago." Harknon said. "Despite their technological abilities it does not appear they are a Kievor target."
"Just mammals." Tanya said.
"That wouldn't make sense." I said. "The Kievor are mammals."
"That's an interesting point and something to think about." Harknon said...