Did he believe that Those Others would allow any colony to be
established on a world they ruled?
"There will be no future for you here," he spoke slowly, trying with
all his power to get through to the other. "They will not allow you to
found another Homeport. You will have no colony--"
"Will you get it into your thick head," burst out the pilot, "that I'm
not here to start a colony! We can take off from this blasted planet
whenever we want to. We didn't come here to stay!"
Beneath the suntan, Dalgard's face whitened. The other had come from
no outlaw ship, seeking a refuge across space, as his own people had
fled to a new life from tyranny. His first fears had been correct!
This was a representative of Pax, doubtless sent to hunt down the
descendants of those who had escaped its throttling dictatorship. The
slender strangely garbed Terran might be of the same blood as his own,
but he was as great an enemy as Those Others!
"Pax!" He did not know that he had said that word aloud.
The other laughed. "You are living back in history. Pax has been dead
and gone almost two centuries.
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