Four heavy-set workers loaded the new, glittering probe into the dock of Mission Control’s launching dock. But before Mack gave the final go-ahead for launch, both he and Albrecht stood in front of the flood of Agency workers. Mack and Albrecht led a moment of silence for better times, a prayer for peace for the planets, and the future success of the probe which would bring home crucial information that would, hopefully, preclude these future Civil Wars from ever happening again.
Mack didn’t think it possible that such a probe would bring back anything that would spare their own progeny from the scourge of future wars. He kept these doubts to himself. Only Albrecht really believed in the possibility of eternal peace. Mack had always had his beliefs about the inevitability of war, given th
