Didn’t Underhill understand? All decent societies agreed on basic issues, things that meant the healthy survival of their people. Things might be cha… - Vernor Vinge

There was an old Qeng Ho saying, “You know you’ve stayed too long when you start using the locals’ calendar.”

That was the old saying: Once your secret is outed anywhere, however briefly, it is outed forever. “Oh, I don’t know,” said Juan. “The way to cover a slip is to embellish it, hide it in all sorts of fake secrets.”

If during the last thousand seconds you have received any High-Beyond-protocol packets from "Arbitration Arts," discard them at once. If they have been processed, then the processing site and all locally netted sites must be physically destroyed at once. We realize that this means the destruction of solar systems, but consider the alternative. You are under Transcendent attack.