Chapter 13
“Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o’nights
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.”
—William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 1, Scene 2
Sarran Calendar: Cycle 9435.B1116
Earth Calendar: July 26th, after midnight
Bane’s tread was soft yet it still echoed across the vehicle docking chamber; an empty storage bay inhabited by the lightslips, used by Sarran scouts and Psi Security. The docking bay doors had not opened since the Ipz attack. Upon assumption of command, the Admirals sealed the bay. They noted that in a major design flaw it shared a wall with Engineering near the jump engines. It would have been all too easy to ram the wall. As it was, it remained under guard.
It had taken tid
