Before this, EarthForce had thought theywere pretty powerful, but the Minbari have been outamong the stars a lot longer than humans. Their shipsare mu...h more powerful. The outer colonies fellquickly. The Minbari didn't take prisoners. Theykilled everyone... men, women, children," I say as Ifeel myself losing it.I can see clear as day the ground forces of theMinbari, storming the Proxima III Colony domes,blasting everyone...everyone."This lady that your father loved... He thoughtmaybe keeping. Okay?”“Well, I hope you’ll share,” said Lance.“And just so you’ll know, Milt and Liz have been invited too. Penelope took care of them,” he said. I nodded.“Good,” I said. “That will be nice.”And then it was the fourth Thursday in November. And then it was dinner time, and there were nine of us counting baby Tina. And the seating. I was seated between my two daughters. My two wives, one of them an ex, were seated, as it happened, at opposite ends of the table; Glory of course was tending to Tina. ..I hope I didn't get up to anything too improper last night," Thomassaid, trying in vain to remember how the evening went."I wouldn't worry about it," Meri said soothingly, "It was a big nightfor you, and today's a big day." Yes, quite. Finn's 'favour'," Thomas recalled, his brain havingreleased its hold on that tiny detail from the night before, "I don'tsuppose you know what he has in mind?" I never know all the details; Finn likes to keep me in the dark," shereplied, drawing back the. He and his men had arrived at this location the night before. He had decided it was perfect for a perimeter defense if one was needed, and had a good clear space for a helicopter to land.According to the last radio contact with the freighter he was supposed to meet and their GPS position locator, they were close enough now for the helicopter to fly in and return to the ship, with fuel to spare.Still, it would take a lot of flight time to make a round trip, so Greg said he was camped, and the.