. that's not all Sam," Dana said, and I detected a little hesitation in her voice."Okay?" I answered."Weeks also found a purse lying near the nude bod.... The I.D. inside the purse belongs to a Sarah Wakefield, a nineteen year old run-away known by the LAPD to be a relatively new prostitute working the downtown area." Okay?" I said again."The head of the task force asked Candy and I to go out and interview some of the businesses and other working girls in the area while the fires still hot. It. .. is still a fearsome place of exploding shells and death."- Douglas Robinson, New York TimesThe strange thing about Viet Nam was the sheer difference, the absolute change in everything. In two days I went from living in a near paradise on Monterey Bay and sleeping (sometimes) with a woman that exuded sexuality to this... foreign place! Everything was different: the very air had an alien smell and the heat and humidity was oppressing.It was in February of '68 and I was being sent to the Khe. Not that he wasn't good looking or socially skilled; hesimply didn't make the time. All of his efforts went into his career andif he looked deep down, he knew he really didn't have what he wanted inhis life -- but he wasn't sure what that was.He checked into his room and didn't bother to unpack, save for his laptop.He connected it to his personal server at home and set things up tosynchronize some files. Once that was started, he dimmed the screen andcollapsed on the bed to relax. It really was. The floor vibrated slightly as he came over. Mao introduced the human giant. “This is Hans Neugruber, as you can see he is a Saturnian.I had never seen a Saturnian before and only heard about them. Like the Stellaris, Saturnians where the result of a Genetic tailoring project long time ago. In their case the designing company wanted to design the perfect fighting soldier able to function even under gravitations that would crush other beings. A Saturnian, so I heard could lift around four tons.