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Ace Jefferson: I beg your pardon, Sir. What are they?
Hendricksson: It's a sword, Jefferson. Take a look. They call it a Screamer. It was developed for us by an alliance on Earth to neutralize the war on the ground here.
Ace Jefferson: How do you know it's dead?
Hendricksson: Cause they yanked its brain out.
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Ace Jefferson: They're pretty smart.
Hendrikkson: They don't make them too smart. This one seems to have modified itself.
Charles Edwin Powell
Extended Reading