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"No Because the forrav--technically, anti-inertial--was on Powered by the egg reaction, too, of course It's like all the molecules in space were put there to be cheap fuel for our ships and everything on theravs co with IFCom to tell them what happened Without the cruiser, no coe radio"

The captain went on to tell about the clever way the men on the formic ship attracted the attention of rescuers, but Ender's concentration was on sohtheaded and a little nauseated from the shock of it

The egg, the strong force field generator, obviously was the source of the molecular disruption device What the captain had just described was the reaction that was in the MD Device, the "Little Doctor," which Ender had used to destroy the formic home planet and kill all the hive queens

Ender thought it was a technology that humans had come up with on their own But it was clearly based on fory You just take away the controls that shape the field, and you've got a field that chews up everything in its path and spits it out as raw atoenerates by playing with the strong nuclear force A planet-eater

The fornize it when Ender used it the first tinize it immediately as a raw, uncontrolled weaponization of the principle that powered every formic starship

Between the time of that battle and the final one, the for--to weaponize the strong force field generator and use it against the hue

They absolutely knehat the weapon was They could have made their ohenever they wanted But they didn't do it They just sat there waiting for Ender

They gave us the stardrive we used to get to theave us everything

We humans are supposed to be so clever So inventive Yet this was completely beyond our reach We make desks with clever holodisplays that we can play really fun games on Plus send each other letters over vast distances But compared to them, we didn't even kno to kill properly While they kne--but chose not to use the technology that way

"Well, this part of the tour usually bores people," said the captain

"No, I wasn't bored Truly I was just thinking"

"About what?"

"Stuff that's too classified to talk about using any method but telepathy," said Ender Which was true--the existence of the MD Device was only on a need-to-know basis, and the secret had been well kept Even the men who deployed and used the weapons didn't understand what they were and what they could do The soldiers who had seen the Little Doctor consume a planet were dead, lost in the same vast chain reaction The soldiers who had seen it used in one of the early battles just thought of it as an incredibly big bomb Only the top brass understood it--and Ender, because Mazer Rackham had insisted that he had to be told what the weapons he carried actually were and how they worked As Mazer told hi of tools and not tell hi"

Graff again Graff who decided Mazer was right and allowed them to tell Ender what it was and hoorked

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