I was very close with Nikhil and he shared my pain too. Such a good friend he was. Smitha was the latest friend in our group and it was kinda new alth...ugh she enjoyed being with us and the sex part. She was one horny girl. While Nikhil was sad about his best friend’s situation, he stopped sex with Smitha. Although Smitha understood that for a few days she was growing hungry for sex day by day. She kept asking Nikhil for it but he couldn’t. One day Smitha came and met me and spoke about it and I. So far, greed and power look like the most fruitful subjects for investigation of the controlling factors in their mental and emotional makeup. I am amused and surprised by this, since the organics of Andromeda were reputed to be driven mostly by sex; of course, they can no longer be studied since they have been extinct for half a million years." 0111, you sound like you have a long history; just how old are you and your civilization?" I am 753,013 years old, and our civilization has been. The mob was still powerful but the administration did its best to boot out any person consorting with them. Laws were passed that made it easier to prosecute the mob and some people in the Attorney General's office did so. My own people, many times, were the ones feeding information to the AG so that prosecutions would be possible. This got me shot at three times and it was the security I had and the kevlar vest that saved me.A special team found some of the local underworld bosses and I talked. The first reaction of three of them was to draw guns, but it was their last. The Marines were all combat veterans and the three died in the immediate crossfire, while the other two looked on with shocked horror on their faces.A minute later, two of Eric's men yelled, asking if it was safe for them to come in as they had a prisoner. The man was ashen-faced when he saw the bodies and promptly started singing like the proverbial canary to anyone with a badge who would listen.Over the next few.