"Sounds fair to me," Peter said.Nick had the sausages on the grill and the kitchen became a hive of green and gold activity as they patched together a... pre-game feast.Kat grabbed a small stool and sat at the end of the galley kitchen watching the fine figures of the four men going about their business. It soon became apparent that it wasn't really necessary for the four of them to be in the room and maybe the only real reason was to perve on her. She caught Nick looking not in her eyes, but down. The Caliphate was notorious in not giving rights to subject peoples. The Empire had a constitution despite being a monarchy. Richard had been very careful to make sure the state did not subjugate its people.Richard got up and went to his bar and refilled his glass from his bottle of sixty year old scotch. At 300 credits a bottle it was supposed to be the best scotch from old earth, and as far as he was concerned, it was. Just as he was bringing the glass up for a drink the video monitor. " Research files?" Shaking her head, she muttered something in anotherlanguage that was probably another curse. "Illegal research, I suppose?I won't ask how you hacked into the database, that isn't important justnow. But can you dump those things, or copy them to something thatthey can't track?" With what?" Nate carefully placed the sticks back in his personal packand shrugged. "You just happen to have something that can transfer dataand kill the encryption that protects the information. The captain smiled warmly at Lady Longview and admitted the group to the manor courtyard where Wenta Elmwood, Lord Longview, stood waiting and watching carefully, his arm in a sling and his face scratched and raw.Lord Longview barely recognized the tall, muscular man who stood in front of him as his own son. Jorgarn appeared to have grown in size and in stature in the two months he had been gone. It was clear to Lord Longview from the outset that his son was in charge of the five men who.