I noticed that he did not display the usual gold braid and stars of a high-ranking general but only wore plain blue uniform of a union army officer. I...thought that most impressive because it reminded me of most of the officers in actual combat in my era that was careful to remove such signatures of rank to avoid being taken out by a vigilant sniper. There was no chance of mistaking him because he was familiar to me from my military science studies when we discussed the brilliant strategy. And Simone, her best friend. She's great too. And Christine. Definitely Christine, and screw the consequences! Hell, throw Kim in there. And Akami. And so on and on. But that's just unbounded selfishness. For one thing, most of them wouldn't go for that. And even if they somehow did, it's just not physically possible for me. I'm already stretched waaaay too thin, like I was saying before."He concluded, "But the main thing is, I don't love any of them. Well, I probably do love Christine, but. Anyway,you will be living with me as a girl not a man and when you get thatjob, we can share the rent.''I'm not living with you as a girl!''Why not? If you want that job, you will need to really get under theskin of being a girl. If you are good, I'll let you wear trousersoccasionally, but lets face it kid, you make a much more convincinggirl than a boy. Look, I'm going upstairs to sort out and then throwSteve's stuff in the dustbin. If you want to come and stay in the flat,just come up. But if. The task force following the Soondra came in range and smelt blood. They now attacked with less regard for their own safety and they suffered for it. We did too, even if we had a longer time to prepare for this event.The Soplasia reinforcements were not allowed to join the battle and it was much easier to pick them off in small groups or singletons. By this time we had a full ninety percent of our forces dedicated to this battle. Numerically we were far outnumbered. Their ships were larger and.