Friday November 30, 2007
Book 9: The Body Politic — Part IV: We Kept the Party Hats

Transcript

TAG: I shall sum up for you. Xinchub's person is valuable for secrets he carries both in his brain and in his biology.
TAG: He has been spearheading a Terran life-extension project for twenty-six years now, and has also been working to limit its implementation.
Doctor Bunnigus: What, so the only people who get to live forever are the politicians and the fabulously wealthy?
TAG: No. As I understand it, he sought to avoid turning one-point-six trillion Terran sophonts into undead, war-mongering super-soldiers.
Captain Tagon: It it wrong for me to think that would be pretty cool to watch?