Her dark little eyes noted that the kitchen table gleamed and was still damp from scrubbing.
He could fit the pieces of the puzzle together if only he were left undistracted for a moment. The station was also a weapon of unparalleled power, both starbuster and interdiction field generator, and eight years earlier had been employed as s uch by a group known as the sacor-rian triad, in an unsuccessful attempt to achieve independence from the new republic.