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And when it's over and the army is disbanded, we'll have one hundred andforty thousand ex-serfs who've gained their freedom by enlisting. As casualties reduce squads to six men or fewer, decimated squads areconsolidated within the platoon or company. Sweating,heart thudding, the Klestronu private made his way to LUF 1 and theteleport by a series of short sprints, hitting the dirt after each of them. Surely you know the answer to that, Fingas said playfully.

And at the breakout, merc point men had worked their way between hoseoutposts almost to the road itself without being seen. The Birds were known to post lookouts,some with night scanners, in occasional tall ridgetop trees, so a floaterlanding could endanger an entire squad. In the grandstand, the susurrus ofconversations thinned, almost stilled. Not to him perhaps-men were different-but to her.