“It would sure make this a lot easier,” Captain Rhea observed, “if the Beag-Liath would share their crushing weapons.”
Major Anso looked up from the ship camera’s screen. “Yeah, it would. But I don’t think that’s likely.”
Rhea turned to the major. “Why don’t you think so?”
“It seems to me they’ll only share obsolete technologies with us.”
The captain’s frown deepened.
“If it were me, I’d only share weaponry that we could defend against. They’re bound to have a way of detecting our presence even when we have their cloaking devices engaged. Likewise, they probably have hardened all of their electronics to make them impervious to EMP weapons.”
“Ahh, I see what you’re getting at. They don’t trust us.”
“How can we know? But, I’d guess that it’s not that they don’t trust Oprit Robia, rath
