‘The five powers are a threat?’ He turned to the following matter.He was aware of their oppressiveness, especially against New Earth’s inhabitan...ts, with their rules and limitations, yet their conduct never really posed a threat, on the contrary, they were open to receive and groom those prospects from New Earth, hence the Martial competition every half a century.‘It correlates to their findings’. Zax thought, meaning the intentions and truths that were uncovered, probably long before he was. One of his ancestors had brought it back to England after the Battle of Blenheim." Blenheim? That cannon is over a hundred years old," I hissed. "The barrel will probably explode the first time it is fired. An iron barrel will rust over that length of time." The barrel is bronze, but I admit it should be in a museum."Another thought struck me. "Surely the theft of a cannon, even a museum piece, will make the authorities nervous. They will be sending out the Yeomanry and Militia to search for. ”Betsy looked around the little area before looking over at Sally. She said, “Usually when I feel like crying, is when there’s something the matter. Sometimes I’ve cried tears of happiness, but you don’t look particularly happy. I don’t remember ever having a time when I cried when there was nothing the matter.”“I don’t want to talk about it,” Sally said evasively.“So there is something the matter.”“I didn’t say that.”Betsy snorted. She shifted around so that she was a little more comfortable.. So off we all trooped to the conference room for a sleep. It was everything we had expected, the same as last time. Another firm charging our firm an extortionate amount for a couple of has beens, to ignore our snoring to preach the evils of software piracy, sorry that was last month, drugs, yes that was it, drugs. As usual there were a few corporate climbers at the front, awake and taking notes, probably along the lines (Ha ha) of 'put sharp, pointy metal bit against skin, push in plungy slidy.