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Long
polished
conference
tables
and
Virginia
Vidaura
ticking
off
the
capabilities
of
her
team
.
"
Envoy
training
was
developed
for
the
UN
colonial
commando
units
.
That
doesn
’
t
mean
…
"
Doesn
’
t
mean
every
Envoy
is
a
commando
.
No
,
not
exactly
,
but
then
what
is
a
soldier
anyway
?
How
much
of
special
forces
training
is
engraved
on
the
physical
body
and
how
much
in
the
mind
?
And
what
happens
when
the
two
are
separated
?
Space
,
to
use
a
cliché
,
is
big
.
The
closest
of
the
Settled
Worlds
is
fifty
light
years
out
from
Earth
.
The
most
far
-
flung
four
times
that
distance
,
and
some
of
the
Colony
transports
are
still
going
.
If
some
maniac
starts
rattling
tactical
nukes
,
or
some
other
biosphere
-
threatening
toys
,
what
are
you
going
to
do
?
You
can
transmit
the
information
,
via
hyperspatial
needlecast
,
so
close
to
instantaneously
that
scientists
are
still
arguing
about
the
terminology
but
that
,
to
quote
Quellcrist
Falconer
,
deploys
no
bloody
divisions
.
Even
if
you
launched
a
troop
carrier
the
moment
the
shit
hit
the
fan
,
the
marines
would
be
arriving
just
in
time
to
quiz
the
grandchildren
of
whoever
won
.
That
’
s
no
way
to
run
a
Protectorate
.
OK
,
you
can
digitise
and
freight
the
minds
of
a
crack
combat
team
.
It
’
s
been
a
long
time
since
weight
of
numbers
counted
for
much
in
a
war
,
and
most
of
the
military
victories
of
the
last
half
millennium
have
been
won
by
small
,
mobile
guerrilla
forces
.
You
can
even
decant
your
crack
d
.
h
.
f
.
soldiers
directly
into
sleeves
with
combat
conditioning
,
jacked
-
up
nervous
systems
and
steroid
built
bodies
.
Then
what
do
you
do
?
They
’
re
in
bodies
they
don
’
t
know
,
on
a
world
they
don
’
t
know
,
fighting
for
one
bunch
of
total
strangers
against
another
bunch
of
total
strangers
over
causes
they
’
ve
probably
never
even
heard
of
and
certainly
don
’
t
understand
.
The
climate
is
different
,
the
language
and
culture
is
different
,
the
wildlife
and
vegetation
is
different
,
the
atmosphere
is
different
.
Shit
,
even
the
gravity
is
different
.
They
know
nothing
,
and
even
if
you
download
them
with
implanted
local
knowledge
,
it
’
s
a
massive
amount
of
information
to
assimilate
at
a
time
when
they
’
re
likely
to
be
fighting
for
their
lives
within
hours
of
sleeving
.
That
’
s
where
you
get
the
Envoy
Corps
.
Neurachem
conditioning
,
cyborg
interfaces
,
augmentation
—
all
this
stuff
is
physical
.
Most
of
it
doesn
’
t
even
touch
the
pure
mind
,
and
it
’
s
the
pure
mind
that
gets
freighted
.
That
’
s
where
the
Corps
started
.
They
took
psychospiritual
techniques
that
oriental
cultures
on
Earth
had
known
about
for
millennia
and
distilled
them
into
a
training
system
so
complete
that
on
most
worlds
graduates
of
it
were
instantly
forbidden
by
law
to
hold
any
political
or
military
office
.
