Kathryn McCormac reveals Snelund's plans for civil war to Flandry:
"'Afterward he'll disband [his mercenaries], 'long with his overlord corps. He recruited from the scum of everywhere else in the Empire, and they'll scatter back through it and vanish automatic'ly. He'll blame the revolt on subversion, and claim to be the heroic leader who saved this frontier.'" (p. 49)
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I suppose that a multi-species interstellar civilization will have a lot of scum and scourings!
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Heck, if we wanted to set ourselves up as gang bosses, we could probably find some of these scum and scourings in our local home towns!
Ad astra! Sean
Plenty of "wretched hives of scum and villany" around...
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
Too true! And I should have added that not everybody who came from their own versions of "sub-Lucifer" turn out to be moral monsters like Snelund.
Ad astra! Sean
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