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Since
the
planet
was
no
prize
,
the
routine
way
to
get
rid
of
this
Bug
base
would
be
for
the
Navy
to
stand
off
at
a
safe
distance
and
render
this
ugly
spheroid
uninhabitable
by
Man
or
Bug
.
But
the
C-in-C
had
other
ideas
.
The
operation
was
a
raid
.
It
sounds
incredible
to
call
a
battle
involving
hundreds
of
ships
and
thousands
of
casualties
a
"
raid
,
"
especially
as
,
in
the
meantime
,
the
Navy
and
a
lot
of
other
cap
troopers
were
keeping
things
stirred
up
many
light-years
into
Bug
space
in
order
to
divert
them
from
reinforcing
Planet
P.
But
the
C-in-C
was
not
wasting
men
;
this
giant
raid
could
determine
who
won
the
war
,
whether
next
year
or
thirty
years
hence
.
We
needed
to
learn
more
about
Bug
psychology
.
Must
we
wipe
out
every
Bug
in
the
Galaxy
?
Or
was
it
possible
to
trounce
them
and
impose
a
peace
?
We
did
not
know
;
we
understood
them
as
little
as
we
understand
termites
.
To
learn
their
psychology
we
had
to
communicate
with
them
,
learn
their
motivations
,
find
out
why
they
fought
and
under
what
conditions
they
would
stop
;
for
these
,
the
Psychological
Warfare
Corps
needed
prisoners
.
Workers
are
easy
to
capture
.
But
a
Bug
worker
is
hardly
more
than
animate
machinery
.
Warriors
can
be
captured
by
burning
off
enough
limbs
to
make
them
helpless
--
but
they
are
almost
as
stupid
without
a
director
as
workers
.
From
such
prisoners
our
own
professor
types
had
learned
important
matters
--
the
development
of
that
oily
gas
that
killed
them
but
not
us
came
from
analyzing
the
biochemistries
of
workers
and
warriors
,
and
we
had
had
other
new
weapons
from
such
research
even
in
the
short
time
I
had
been
a
cap
trooper
.
But
to
discover
why
Bugs
fight
we
needed
to
study
members
of
their
brain
caste
.
Also
,
we
hoped
to
exchange
prisoners
.
So
far
,
we
had
never
taken
a
brain
Bug
alive
.
We
had
either
cleaned
out
colonies
from
the
surface
,
as
on
Sheol
,
or
(
as
had
too
often
been
the
case
)
raiders
had
gone
down
their
holes
and
not
come
back
.
A
lot
of
brave
men
had
been
lost
this
way
.
Still
more
had
been
lost
through
retrieval
failure
.
Sometimes
a
team
on
the
ground
had
its
ship
or
ships
knocked
out
of
the
sky
.
What
happens
to
such
a
team
?
Possibly
it
dies
to
the
last
man
.
More
probably
it
fights
until
power
and
ammo
are
gone
,
then
survivors
are
captured
as
easily
as
so
many
beetles
on
their
backs
.
From
our
co
belligerents
the
Skinnies
we
knew
that
many
missing
troopers
were
alive
as
prisoners
--
thousands
we
hoped
,
hundreds
we
were
sure
.
Intelligence
believed
that
prisoners
were
always
taken
to
Klendathu
;
the
Bugs
are
as
curious
about
us
as
we
are
about
them
--
a
race
of
individuals
able
to
build
cities
,
starships
,
armies
,
may
be
even
more
mysterious
to
a
hive
entity
than
a
hive
entity
is
to
us
.
As
may
be
,
we
wanted
those
prisoners
back
!
In
the
grim
logic
of
the
universe
this
may
be
a
weakness
.
Perhaps
some
race
that
never
bothers
to
rescue
an
individual
may
exploit
this
human
trait
to
wipe
us
out
.
The
Skinnies
have
such
a
trait
only
slightly
and
the
Bugs
do
n't
seem
to
have
it
at
all
--
nobody
ever
saw
a
Bug
come
to
the
aid
of
another
because
he
was
wounded
;
they
cooperate
perfectly
in
fighting
but
units
are
abandoned
the
instant
they
are
no
longer
useful
.
