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128 [Picking up telescope and looking into the harbor]: Good God, the Ultimus has trained her guns on us!

Who's done that?

The Robots on board.

H'm, then, of course, then—then, that's the end of us.

You mean?

The Robots are practised marksmen.

Yes. It's inevitable. [Pause.]

It was criminal of old Europe to teach the Robots to fight. Damn them. Couldn't they have given us a rest with their politics? It was a crime to make soldiers of them.