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Captain Dominic Flandry has been knighted for his many services to the
Terran Empire — an Empire which is old, jaded, and corrupt, as Flandry
well knows. And while that "Sir" before his name may be an added
attraction to comely ladies, he expects that it will also bring him less welcome
attention from envious "colleagues" within the empire. What it is
not likely to do is make him more of an object of interest to the Merseians,
whose plots he has repeatedly foiled and who are aware of how much simpler their
plans to replace the Empire would be if he were the late Sir Dominic
Flandry. Flandry himself has come to understand that there may be no more point
to all his victories than that a few trillion of his fellow creatures may live
out their lives before the inevitable coming of the Long Night of galactic
barbarism. At best, he may have postponed its coming and shortened its duration.
But if that is the most he can achieve, so be it — he'll keep on
fighting, hoping that the barbarians, too, will pass, followed by a new round of
civilization.
