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"I know That part I don't understand Not that they didn't try to stopat me But it's as if they really couldn't believe, until it was too late, that I would actually kill the queen Maybe in their world, queens are never killed, only captured, only check they didn't think an enemy would ever do"

"And when she died, the others all died"

"No, they just went stupid The first ships we boarded, the buggers were still alive Organically But they didn't , even when our scientists vivisected sos about buggers After a while they all died No will There's nothing in those little bodies when the queen is gone"

"Why don't they believe you?"

"Because we didn't find a queen"

"She got blown to pieces"

"Fortunes of war Biology takes second place to survival But so You can't live in this place without the evidence staring you in the face"

"What evidence is there in Eros?"

"Ender, look around you Hus, for one thing This was the buggers' advance post in the First Invasion They carved this place out before we even knew they were here We've living in a bugger hive But we already paid our rent It cost th

e marines a thousand lives to clear theht for every meter of it"

Now Ender understood why the roo to him "I knew this place wasn't a human place"

"This was the treasure trove If they had knoould win that first war, they probably would never have built this place We learned gravity ravity here We learned efficient use of stellar energy because they blacked out this planet In fact, that's hoe discovered theradually disappeared fro to find out why It found out The tug transhtering the crew It kept right on transer examination of the boat Not until they finally dis did the transmissions stop It was their blindness--they never had to trans by machine, and so with the crew dead, it didn't occur to the"

"Why did they kill the crew?"

"Why not? To the your nails Nothing to get upset about They probably thought they were routinely shutting down our co Not enetic future Murder's no big deal to the, really, is enetic path"

"So they didn't knohat they were doing"