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Drake was immediately suspicious. He was tempted to just completely ignore the Azimuth but options weren’t exactly leaping out at him and he could always refuse its help. At the same time he knew he’d have to watch to see what other angles there could be to the Azimuth’s idea.
‘What do you mean?’ he asked it.
‘There is a way to disable all those who stand against you. A way to render them powerless to stop you.’
‘Render them powerless? Does that mean kill them? Or maybe leave them brain dead?’
‘The effect will be temporary and quite painless to them.’
‘And yet you somehow have the power to do this to everyone aboard an entire fleet?’
‘It will affect everyone in the area. You can feel the power flowing through this part of space, just as I can, but you don’t understand what it off
