![]() Qeng Ho and Emergents, the two expeditions, had danced around each other for days, probing for intent and firepower. This was a situation where treachery might be rewarded, and both sides knew it. So far from friends, so far from a social context…so far from witnesses. It lay frozen, waiting to be looted or exploited or developed, depending on one's nature. Here, well, there was treasure but it did not belong to either side. That was nothing new to the traders of the Qeng Ho-though normally the meetings were not so unwelcome, and there was the possibility of trade. They were strangers, meeting far from either side's home territory. ![]() ![]() For the last fifty years of their voyage, they had watched the torch-plumes of the Emergent fleet as it decelerated toward the same destination. The Qeng Ho fleet was first to arrive at the OnOff star. ![]()
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