Ben Sandler, Deputy Director NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, has a plan. Tom Kretzler and his graduate students have presented him with an extraordinary theory. Extraordinary theories require extraordinary proof. Ben plans to publish a peer reviewed paper to win over the scientific community. Only then can it be bumped up to the military and political authorities that must take action. Earth is in danger.Shurri, Commander of the Great Armada of the Six Tribes, has a plan. She smells a path through the enemy's deployment pattern. She must muster a large fighting force from each of the Tribes and push through to destroy the enemy's forward production bases. But first she must keep the Tribes focused on fighting the enemy and not bickering with each other.Azaraht 1, commander of a fleet of 27 battle astroids (batoids), does not have a plan. Created solely to co-command a batoid with his computer he realizes that something is terribly wrong with the war effort. But batoid pilots, even commanders, are given as little information as possible to perform their mission. Fleet Battle Orders are insistent that every possible measure be taken to limit the amount of information that might fall to the enemy. Azaraht has only his computer and its dictionary to try to understand the war. He is studying the limited information available to him, but he does not have a plan. He is making it up as he goes along.
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