Аннотация
"Rimrunners"by C.J.Cherryh
THE POST-WAR PERIOD
From: The Company Warsby Judith Nye
2534: University of Cyteen Press, Novgorod, U.T.
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In 2353, when the Earth Company Fleet fled Pell under the command of Conrad Mazian, the overriding fear of both Union and Alliance was that Mazian would retreat to Earth and draw on its vast material and human resources. So the immediate strategic consideration was to deny the Fleet that refuge.
It was rapidly clear that the Sol Station megacorporations which had built the Fleet did not support Mazian in his bringing the War to Sol system; and the arrival of Union warships before the Mazianni could so much as effect repairs drove Mazian into a second retreat.
Alliance ships, dropping into Sol system close behind the Union fleet, entered into immediate negotiati...
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