We've assumed that theresource worlds, and probably some of the trade worlds, were colonizedby dumping convicts there in early times. He was a civilian pilotwith warrior tendencies, who'd been called up from the reserve for thisproject, and he'd brought some civilian habits with him. At thatrange, even T'swa-trained mortar men couldn't expect to pinpoint buildingsthey couldn't see, but they should be able to do a lot of damage. They burned theserfs' hamlet there, and violated some women.
After a minute shepushed him away. Heads raised in thedarkness, and- Someone got off Jerym's bed, someone large and black. Tomorrow, Jerym decided,he'd look his over during dinner break. radioed to the mortar sections to discontinuetheir fire on the hilltop and direct it against the T'swa.
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