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Valor 01

Valor’s Choice

Tanya Huff

E-Book Version 0.9

Most formatting & spelling errors rectified

Scanned by Bodafon

21st April 2004

If your like this book, please buy it.

The author deserves the royalties.

Cover art by Jody Lee. For color prints of Jody Lee's paintings,

please contact: The Cerridwen Enterprise

P.O. Box 10161 Kansas City, MO 64111 Phone: 1-800-825-1281

DAW Book Collectors No. 1148. DAW Books are distributed by Penguin Putnam Inc.

All characters and events in this book are fictitious.

Any resemblance to persons living or dead

is strictly coincidental.

If you purchase this book without a cover you should be aware that this book may have been stolen property and

reported as "unsold and destroyed" to the publisher. In such case neither the author nor the publisher has received

any payment for this "stripped book."

First Printing, April 2000 5 6 7 8 9

DAW TRADEMARK REGISTERED

U.S. PAT. OFF. AND FOREIGN COUNTRIES

-MARCA REGISTRADA

HECHO EN U.S.A.

PRINTED IN THE U S.A

This one's for Sheila, 'cause she was willing to take a chance.

And for Gord Rose and David Sutton and Leslie Dicker and all the other men and women

who actually do the work in military organizations worldwide.

Also for my father who, during the Korean War, made Chief Petty Officer. Twice.

Prologue

A writer and philosopher of the late twentieth century once said, "Space is big." There

are three well-known corollaries to this. The first is that the number of planets where

biological accidents occurred in the correct order to create life is small. The second is

that the number of planets where life managed to overcome the odds and achieve sen-

tience is smaller still. And the third is that many of these sentient life-forms blow

themselves into extinction before they ever make it off their planet of origin.

If space is big and mostly uninhabited, it should be safe to assume that any life-forms

who really didn't get along could avoid spending time in each other's company.

Unfortunately, the fact that said life-forms could avoid each other doesn't necessarily

mean that they would.

When the Others attacked systems on the borders of Confederation territory,

Parliament sent out a team of negotiators to point out that expansion in any other

direction would be more practical as it would not result in conflict. The negotiators

were returned in a number of very small pieces, their ship cleverly rigged to explode

when it would do the most damage.

The Confederation found itself at a disadvantage. Its member races had achieved an

interstellar presence only after they'd overcome the urge to destroy themselves or any

strangers they ran into. Evidence suggested the Others had flung themselves into

space without reaching this level of maturity. Clearly, in order to survive, the

Confederation would have to recruit some more aggressive members.

Humans had a bare-bones space station and a shaky toehold on Mars when the

Confederation ships appeared. Some fairly basic technology by Confederation

standards, combined with the information that the Others were heading Earth's way,

convinced humanity to throw its military apparatus into space where they took to

interstellar warfare the way the H'san took to cheese.

Some one and a half centuries of intermittent war later, borders had shifted, and

Humans had been joined by first the Taykan and then the Krai. Much of the military

terminology introduced into the Confederation's common tongue remained Human

although, as the three races became increasingly more integrated, Taykan and Krai

words began creeping in. The Krai, for example, had sixteen useful adjectives

describing the impact of an antipersonnel weapon on a soft target.

Although the induction of younger and more aggressive species had undeniably

solved the problem presented by the Others, it had also irrevocably changed the face

of the Confederation. Feeling just a little overwhelmed,- many of the original species

spent their spare time sighing and reminiscing about the good old days.

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