yawnmoth wrote:
> Also, if Earth had factories that could churn out Shadow ship after
> Shadow ship, one would think they could do it after Clark died.
> Unless, of course, the Rangers were so absolutely repulsed by the idea
> that they dismissed it outright.

As Amy says, you're getting into story-idea territory. For what it's
worth, it appears from the available evidence that this is more or less
what "Crusade" was to have been about (the plague having been a red
herring all along).

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that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake."
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