The colonists were Naturals, eschewing technology in favor of an agricultural civilization. The settlers deliberately eradicated all knowledge of the ...ther worlds in their histories, and, not surprisingly, became isolated and regressed to a feudal society. The world was now roughly equivalent to the Dark Ages of Earth in its warlike nature and level of technology. The colonists were assumed in Confederation Intelligence to have perished very soon after their arrival, and the recent rediscovery. " He paused for moment thinking as he took another drink of beer. "It's almost as if he knows what I was planning," he mused."Well, we have known Suzy-Q all her life and both of us know that if there is a way to break something, she will do it," Sandra replied. "Maybe we haven't heard about her breaking anything this week but that doesn't mean that she hasn't. Even if she hasn't, she can't keep that up forever."Brian nodded slowly as he sipped the last of his beer. He stared into space thinking. The rest of the days of the week flowed together, with breakfast with my sister, work, karate, and more work in the evenings, plus daily calls to Jessica. On Thursday, Dave had given Cindi diskettes with our case and client management software to demonstrate, with the caveats that there were still some features and functions that weren’t complete, and on Friday they had done a controlled, but successful demo. The only major issue was a networking issue with dBase III, but Dany and I were close. "Shall we talk about it?"Joel's hands wandered up her sides and under her top. "Which subject?"His hands cupped under her bra and squeezed as he nuzzled her neck. "About you calling this your home. Maybe on a more permanent basis."Joel freed a hand to unfasten her bra and she felt him cup her bare breasts and squeeze again. "Tee is a party to this ... we can't talk about it with her gone." We need to make some decisions without her though, Baby. Tee can't be in charge of our lives." He managed.