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==Chapter 10 - The Armada==
Stone Lion Eden Enclave, Military HQ
Eden, Eden star System
Pentagon Worlds
3167 CE
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Star Colonel Martin listened to the exchange again, with a sinking dread.  Rochelle was right.  It hurt to admit that.  It hurt a lot more than he'd imagined it would. The only vindication being that silencing her had allowed the Clan to maintain order...for a while.
If she had lived to see this? 
It was offensive, really.  The Scorpions had released the Elbar information at the beginning of the Wars of Reaving, used it as their excuse to remain apart. In the end been the ones to suffer the backlash and be forced to flee due to 'spheroid taint'.
Here they are, the Spheroids, coming with promise of rescue.
"Are they serious?" he asked.
"Ovkhan, I do not know." his Watch officer told him, "We do not know the capabilities of the warship either. It is a type with no precedent, no record. It shares no lines with any existing designs...but we do have the markings and schema on record-from the War against the Usurper. It is marked like a Kowloonese ship, it is a type we do not know and they claim to be from Kowloon."
"They also claim the Star League sent them."  he said.
"The false league might have given Kowloon the independence they desired. I am more shocked that they would be powerful enough to come here with such a ship, to boldly state their business, and to do so in such a...public manner."
"The public knows now." Martin said.  "They re-broadcast that entire exchange on every channel."
"We have no Clan Council. our leadership is missing, no Khans..."
"I know.  What are the other Enclaves doing?"
What we are, I suspect...or preparing."
"We need to be ready." said the Star Colonel
"But for what?" questioned the Watch officer
"I'm thinking..we need to get the civilians ready to evacuate, and pray this is no trick."
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