CHAPTER II“Lies,” General Olmstead said bitterly. “Don’t tell me anything. It’s all lies.”
“I swear I knew nothing about this,” Alan insisted.
“Do you realize what you’ve done? Thousands of innocent people must have died already in the atomic explosions on the Outworlds. Millions more will perish before this war comes to an end. For it’s war you’ve brought to the solar system, Alan Tremaine. Is that what your father would have wanted?”
“I brought nothing,” Alan said. “I don’t know what my father would have wanted.”
“I believe him, Dad,” Laura Olmstead said. Alan had met her for the first time two weeks ago on the spaceship from Earth. She was going to join her father on Mars for the Declaration of Sovereignty ceremony. Alan had struck up a quick friendship with her in his darkest momen
