Cook, Glen - Starfishers 03 - Stars' End by Cook Glen
Author:Cook, Glen [Cook, Glen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781597801690
Amazon: 1597801690
Publisher: Night Shade Books
Published: 1982-01-01T05:00:00+00:00
Fourteen: 3050 AD
The Main Sequence
Beckhartâs word proved good. Angel City was quiet. Central Park, a recreational area at the cityâs heart, had been equipped with field tents, trailers, and miscellany the Admiral had borrowed from the Corps. Storm and benRabi set up for business before noon.
âMouse,â benRabi said, âyou get the feeling weâre being rushed?â
âItâs not a feeling, Moyshe. Itâs a fact.â
âHow do we stall?â
Men with briefcases were lining up to obtain the little catalogs Moysheâs team had brought along. âBuy time,â Jarl had said. It did not look like they would be given a chance. The various purchasing agents, impelled by the war scare, wanted the bidding to begin right away.
The Marines proved to be perfect policemen. They helped immeasurably. They showed favoritism only to Starfisher tourists. The Admiral seemed determined to avoid a significant incident, and to help the local shopkeepers relieve the Seiner sightseers of all their hard currency.
Storm lost his first tourist their second day on The Broken Wings. The man turned up again before Mouse learned that he had been taken. He was none the worse for wear. He was a mess cook from Danion who knew nothing anyone wanted to know.
âItâs started,â Mouse told benRabi when Moyshe relieved him. âMake sure everybody checks in before they wander off. Check their passes. The ones we have to watch have been given a red one.â
âYou know who grabbed the man?â
âNo. I didnât try to find out. I just passed it to Beckhart. I figure we might as well let his people do it. Weâll have more people to watch our criticals.â
Moyshe lost several people on his shift. There was only one incident with anyone who mattered. His people handled it perfectly, and presented the would-be kidnapper to Beckhartâs Marines.
The man turned out to be a frustrated newshawk trying to get around Seiner and Confederation censors. Beckhart booted him off planet.
Days ground by, producing no insoluble problems. The auction bidding was wild. Prime ambergris nodes repeatedly brought record prices. There were rumors that Confederation meant to get a stranglehold on the trade. Outsiders and private industry wanted to grab while the grabbing was good.
That rumor made Moyshe nervous. The way the Admiral shrugged it off, he suspected the Bureau had an angle.
The war scare, if not genuine, was convincing. Confederation and Ulantonid forces were marshaling on the boundaries of the March of Ulant. People were getting scared.
Did they mean to fight one another? Or some third party? The news people were wondering too. Luna Command had been leaking one line of news one week, another the next.
News snoops became Moysheâs biggest problem. They used every trick to capitalize on an opportunity to approach real Seiners. Moyshe did three interviews himself. Someone had tipped the media that he was a former Bureau agent.
He refused interviews after someone discovered that he and Mouse had been responsible for Jupp von Drachauâs famous raid in the Hell Stars.
Then Seiners ceased to be newsworthy. The sword-rattling on the frontier faded away.
Luna Command had admitted that a secret research station and its entire solar system had been destroyed.
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