"We have been favored I think beyond all men " Mandorallen said. They all stood staring at each other caught up in the wonder of what they had just witnessed. .

Working on. A moment later Tammuz was brought to the excavation site and pushed down the slope to fall among us. Samran checked the four charges himself and then scrambled up the slope. He looked back as he reached the top. 'I am tempted to take one or more of you as hostages. But that would prove too complicated. The charges will be armed and detonated by remote control when we are clear? With any luck the explosion will.
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The scale of things near the end gets bigger than I like. There are too few human characters involved. And there's one assumption I don't like. The Long Shot spacecraft was used in Ringworld and it worked. What do we have to assume? Either that Ringworld was never written in this universe or that the Puppeteers modelled their hoax on something they were only then developing and they later finished the job. Hey that could be interesting after all. After the Tnuctipun are finally exterminated after things settle down in known space someone finally takes a Quantum II hyperdrive ship toward the hub of the galaxy. And he finds that the galactic core is exploding. END .
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