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But such an instrument would have to stand abovethe forest roof, and would have been detected in advance by recon flights. The purr again. They'd fight for the Confederation; she had a feeling about that. Theway it did on maneuvers.

Then, for the moment, it waspast. and to catch up again, they'd haveto snowshoe much of the night without sleep, for their snowshoes wereslower than skis. But it's easy toforget-for me, anyway. Army and marine units, up to battalions, areeach from a different world, each with its own officers, and no imperialbattalion is stationed on its home world.