Flight of the Falcon

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Electronic edition: August, 2004

For the splendiferous Sauer family: Eric, Jeannie, Frank and, of course, Michelle.

Just because.

An Enlightened One is an arrow aimed at Hell.

—Japanese proverb

“A means of securing the combat operations and daily activity of forces; a complex of measures designed to mislead the enemy as to the presence and disposition of forces and various military objects, their condition, combat readiness and operations and also the plans of the commander.”

—Soviet Military Encyclopaedia, Terra, 1978

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Lyran Commonwealth Chartered JumpShipFaust von Himmel

Approaching Zenith Jump Point outbound

Summit

Lyran Commonwealth 4 March 3134

“Three hundred minutes to jump."

As the automated warning rang through the bridge of the Lyran Commonwealth-chartered merchant JumpShipFaust von Himmel, the tall, almost spectrally lean black captain turned and nodded to his short, square executive officer.

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