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"Your lives have been dedicated to one vocation or another--electrics, astral navigation, gunnery, janitorial service, lighting and repair, martial combat My vocation is conquest They teach us it in schools And in school, they instructedan enee of an eneht to us is simple: vent the ship"
Sevro activates the hidden console secured in the back side of a navigation display, one only Golds can access The Blues recoil in surprise It is like going into ahim a nuclear boil and blinks gold All he need do is push in a code, and the entire ship will open to space Twenty thousand men and women will die
"We made these ships so we could empty them Why? Not because we distrust your loyalty--in fact we rely on that--but because there are still …" I look at the roster one of the Blues gives me "… sixty-one Golds on board They are loyal to the Sovereign I ae the ship, attee; they will rally you, abuse your loyalty, and lead you to certain death Because of them and their hatred of ain
"There is yet another con wonders what happened here Soon she will realize the pride of her ars to her It is mine Her Praetors’ ships will voions of Obsidians and Gray hts ant my head, fully prepared to kill all in their path
"If I vent you into space, there will be no one to stop the me So you see, you are my salvation, and I am yours I will not sacrifice twenty thousand of you to kill sixty-one of my enemies I chose this vessel above all others because of its crew The best the Society can offer To me you are not expendable So what I ask of you is this, choose me as your commander and overwhelm those Golds who think you expendable
"You have e of the ArchGovernor of Mars, Nero au Augustus, to capture or kill your Gold commanders for me Take their weapons and subdue theainst the invaders who come to destroy us Do it now If you wait, they will kill you! I will know the first men and women to rise up As your new master, I will reward you The ArchGovernor will reward you Do it now! For I have just opened every arhout the ship Seize weapons, and neutralize the tyrants"
A heavy silence as the first sparks of revolution are struck
Sevro co"
"Too demokratic?" I whisper
"I don’t think autocratic demokracy counts" Sevro wrinkles his nose "You did threaten to vent theht I iravel, dipshit" Sevro cackles a bit too enthusiastically and slaps his leg with histhe htly eins to hiss I turn to look at the glowing bulkhead My eneht a drill to assail ht of dozens of blue eyes The red of the door deepens, spreading We haven’t long
My razor ripples into killing forlance at Sevro, who has been distracted by one of the holo screens I order the Blues to take shelter