08/05/2026 22:27

---

That's how he put it, sir. But while adding efficiency both to government and business, StandardManagement further calcified the already rigid Confederation culture. Sound the dirge, then the attack. Do you? Really? Her words werepart challenge, part question.

Normally Belser stood to speak. Either the skirmishers were being overrun, or theKomarsi had backed away. An aide stood behind the man, pen poisedover a secretarial pad. Then Wellem Bosler called from the ghao, and they all hurried across andwent inside.