Chapter 8
“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
—Albert Einstein
The Elder Council met in the government building on the grounds of the spaceport. It was a functional workplace because none of the Elders lived on the property and it was employed only for government business. It had a large dining hall for the use of any of the guilds on Sarran or the crews of both the exploratory and warships that the Sarran sent out to space. It held some offices where there were clerks, although most of the work of the Sarran Elders was done from home. Its main purpose was storage of the archives. The Sarran archives went back for ten thousand years to a time even before the Clan Wars.
It was because the archives held the knowledge of how the genetic modification to the S
