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Kelmer avoided meeting hiseyes. The replacements were quite largely teenaged recruits from the refugeecamps, but there were also many Class B reservists In Komars, the authorities didn't even allow ship's crewashore, not even to handle lines on the dock! Longshoremen wereassigned to that. usual warrior's allowances, and to assign him toLieutenant Zimsu's platoon for purposes of quarters, supply, and mess.

Now Meg was gone. Komarswould be stripped to pay reparations and penalties. Here was his chance to psych Esenrok. So The Movement, underCrown leadership, was trying to shorten the job from centuries to hopefullynot more than three generations, with the hump to be crossed within fiftyyears.