Of course any time they came across the subject of Makras the Optimaliser, they remembered that fact that O.P was in fact a clone of this great man. O.P was often wondering at Makras' life, and the strange parallels in his own early experiences. But it wasn't until they had gotten deep into their integrated sociology-social-psychology- sociology studies that O.P began suspecting that his childhood had been deliberately engineered to parallel the early childhood experiences of Makras.
That explained the strange 'death' of Tim. The death that was no death. His uncle, that is, Commander Destin, had said that one day O.P might forgive him. But for what? Commander Destin had remained silent when O.P addressed any further questions on the subject. But it was becoming clear to O.P that they had
