The beast has long since stopped serving to become the master. The Confed did what governments were famed for: it made more government. To oppose it … - Steve Perry

It wasn’t a death wish. It was a see-how-close-you-can-get-and-live wish.

What they don’t know won’t hurt us...

Any type of violence initiated by one intelligent being against another was wrong. Killing violence was worse than any other kind. How could it be condoned? In his brief moment of cosmic bliss, Khadaji had seen the value of intelligent life. Man and his self-created mues were alone in the galaxy as evolved intelligence. Certainly, there were artificials—computers and genetically altered animals—but no aliens had been discovered above the level of an unaltered dog. It was a big galaxy, plenty of room for every human or neo-human, it wasn’t necessary to kill any of them!