Gilmore looked at the image on his aide’s display thoughtfully. Was this what Earth had once looked like? Sparkling, blue and white and green? The Roving had two continents. There was one huge one which the pack said on Earth would have stretched from Greece to Antarctica, Senegal to the Philippines; and there was a smaller one to its west with a long, thin strait half the width of the Atlantic between them. This, and assorted islands the size of Australia, was the world the Rusties wanted to share. So much room! There were ‘isolated First Breed communities’, the pack had said, but surely there was plenty of space for everyone, and exactly who got what would be ironed out in the negotiations. And soon he would be seeing this world with his own eyes. Ark Royal was up in lunar orbit, undergoing final preparation, and he was here on the moon in the landing boat Sharman, waiting to pick up his ship’s Rustie liaison.
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