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    Teams A Terran Empire story
    Teams A Terran Empire story
    Teams A Terran Empire story
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    Teams A Terran Empire story

    By Ann Wilson

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Teams A Terran Empire story - Ann Wilson

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      Title: Teams

      A Terran Empire story

      Author: Ann Wilson

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      TEAMS

      A Terran Empire story

      by Ann Wilson

      Copyright (C) 1992 by Ann Wilson

      Narvon III, 2277 CE

      Marine Captain Jase Thompson enjoyed Evaluation Team duty, and this particular assignment appealed to what his team members called his warped sense of humor. This had started out as an odd one; it was the Archbishop of Narvon III, rather than its Baron or the System Count, who had pushed the panic button. He'd appealed to the Emperor for a battle fleet, with a full complement of Security and Combat Division Marines, claiming civil war was breaking out because of something that was turning Narvon System's best people into bloodsucking servants of the Devil.

      Captain Thompson had no idea what His Majesty thought about the situation, but he was skeptical, himself. Still, no one asked for that sort of intervention without some reason; it was up to the E-Team to find out whether the reason was valid, and if so what degree of intervention was really justified. He certainly didn't want to call in a fleet—no E-Team leader did—but he would if he had to. Then he'd hope that the Ranger or Fleet Admiral in charge overruled him; he didn't like thinking what military occupation could do to the occupied system. Not that the situation was likely to be that bad.

      Thompson sighed, checking the clock and deciding he'd better get back to the bridge; the Koslov's Captain—Navy Lieutenant Inga Sanchez— should have the pre-landing surveillance reports for him by now.

      She gave him a rueful shake of the head as he entered her small bridge. It's peaceful as Terra down there, Jase. No trace of active weaponry, no civil disturbances our sensors can detect, no fires involving artificial substances—no nothing.

      Thompson grinned. Sounds good to me, Inga. What about news reports, entertainment broadcasts, that sort of thing?

      Sanchez grinned back. Just as normal, except for a couple of oddities. The holos aren't carrying any 'casts of contact sports, and on a talk show, one of the guests had fangs; the others were acting a little nervous, but she was telling them how harmless she and the other `Kins of the Dragon' really were. Sanchez touched a control on the arm of her command chair. Watch.

      The Captain's monitor screen lit up to show several people seated in a group of comfortable-looking chairs around a low table, and Thompson repressed a chuckle. Talk shows seemed to be the same everywhere, he thought—then one of the guests caught his attention. She was attractive, wearing the uniform of a System Security officer—Chief of Detectives, from her badge—except that she was more than slim, she looked damned near starved.

      How do you feel about the Kins who were killed, Chief Kaufman, and what do you plan to do with the ones who killed them? a man—Thompson guessed him to be the show's host—asked.

      The woman shrugged slightly. "My personal feelings have no bearing; I plan to deal with them as I would with any other murderers, how else? I

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