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And heard some weird things there. Some of those cultures, human andnonhuman, are predatory, with the ability to conquer or ravage worlds andpeoples no better prepared than ours to cope with them. Thank you very much. ***After Carrmak, Jerym, and the other four had been led from the barracks,Romlar napped in his bunk.

Yessir, he said. Jil-Zat chuckled again. Opponents, in a sense. If it never comes down harder than that, therewon't be any problem, he told himself, but even as he thought it, theybegan to fall more thickly.