“That"s a hell of a reach, Ondo. You"re clutching at straws, seeing what you want to see. The planet"s a lifeless hell-hole scoured by hurricane-force winds, and I see no sign of any environmental terraforming. I also see no sign of Concordance defence batteries and fleets ready to atomize anyone who discovers a world they claim doesn"t exist.”
The frowns deepened about his eyes. Once he got hold of an idea, he wouldn"t let it go. “I still think we should look closer. Drop atmospheric probes in to see if we can identify any continents, sample the atmosphere, look for clues. If this is Coronade, Concordance will have gone to a lot of trouble to obliterate it completely, scribble it out of the galaxy. But short of destroying the planet, breaking it apart, they would have left some evidence
