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Title: Teams
A Terran Empire story

Author: Ann Wilson

Release Date: June 9, 2008 [EBook #25744]

Language: English

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TEAMS

A Terran Empire story

by Ann Wilson

Copyright (C) 1992 by Ann Wilson

Narvon III, 2277 CE

Marine Captain Jase Thompson enjoyed Evaluation Team duty, and this
particular assignment appealed to what his team members called his
warped sense of humor. This had started out as an odd one; it was the
Archbishop of Narvon III, rather than its Baron or the System Count,
who had pushed the panic button. He'd appealed to the Emperor for a
battle fleet, with a full complement of Security and Combat Division
Marines, claiming civil war was breaking out because of something that
was turning Narvon System's "best people" into "bloodsucking servants
of the Devil."

Captain Thompson had no idea what His Majesty thought about the
situation, but he was skeptical, himself. Still, no one asked for that
sort of intervention without some reason; it was up to the E-Team to
find out whether the reason was valid, and if so what degree of
intervention was really justified. He certainly didn't want to call in
a fleet--no E-Team leader did--but he would if he had to. Then he'd
hope that the Ranger or Fleet Admiral in charge overruled him; he
didn't like thinking what military occupation could do to the occupied
system. Not that the situation was likely to be that bad.

Thompson sighed, checking the clock and d