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This is a preview of: Phoebus Krumm

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PANEL ONE (upper lefthand quarter of page)

Show the open deck of the ship, with spacesuited people working on
it, installing doors and windows, treating the deck, guiding heavy,
hand-winched loads up into the yards.

Demondion-Echeverria (at one corner of panel): 'Halliwater calls her
_Sweek Lestvoh_ -- 'Victory Through Superior Firepower'. She will soon
make her shakedown cruise -- if she hasn't already -- destroying such
ships as she encounters, raiding isolated colonies, some Monopolitan.
Taking younger, more attractive captives as slaves, slaughtering the
rest.'

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PANEL TWO (upper righthand quarter of page)

Closeup on Demondion-Echeverria with Krumm at one side.

Krumm: 'If she hasn't already.' And you know all this because ... ?'

Demondion-Echeverria: 'I am the Jendyne Ambassador. My duty is to deny
it all as long as possible, then point the finger at others until her
battleworthiness is proven.'

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PANEL THREE (lower lefthand quarter of page)

Closeup on Krumm with Demondion-Echeverria at one side.

Krumm: 'What makes this ship such a danger?'

Hanebuth: 'As I said, she is the largest, most heavily-armed vessel
ever conceived, many times the size of the Monopolity's largest
man-of-war.'

Krumm: 'And ... ?'

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PANEL FOUR (lower right quarter of page)

Take the splash page with the ship being built, reduce the image,
then clone as many times as you can fit into this panel.

Lia (cameoed at bottom left): 'The instant she is proven, a thousand
like her will be built. Their keels are laid, materials and manpower
already assembled. They will attack the Arm. They will attack us. A
decade hence we may _all_ be worshipping the Galactic Core.'

Demondion-Echeverria: 'Or pretending to, in order to survive.'