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Battlestar Galactica 3 - The Tombs Of Kobol

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by Glen A. Larson

"You—you lost?"

  "It seems so."

  "I want to talk to you about the attack when we get back. How dare you launch fighters without my express orders?"

  "An aberration, I'm afraid. A malfunction. A touch of the human disease."

  "The human disease?"

  "I began to believe I could outthink anyone. I will need to make a systematic analysis of my behavior during your absence. I must discover where I went wrong."

  "Don't worry. I'll show you."

  "Yes, I'm sure you will."

  "Lucifer, when I get through with you, your name will be mud. Your secret name will be mud."

  "Close, but not right. Please, arch your back so I may lift you."

  "Can you carry the weight?"

  "I can carry any weight without feeling it. It's mass that gives me trouble. Fortunately, I made you diet."

  "Torture, that was—hey, careful. Ouch! Take it easy. I'm not comfortable like this."

  "I cannot carry you any other way. It's only a short distance, after we leave the tomb, to my ship."

  Lucifer lugged Baltar through the many corridors, paying scant attention to the man's grunts, complaints, and groans of displeasure.

  Back on the base ship, after Lucifer had attended to Baltar's injuries, the man regained some of his jauntiness.

  "We could make quite a team, Lucifer," he said, smiling that annoying smile.

  Lucifer resisted his programming and remained silent. He did not wish to consider teaming with Baltar. He was, as a subordinate officer on the Galactica might have put it, looking for a way to snag a transfer off this rattletrap.

  Table of Contents

  CONTENTS

  PROLOGUE

  CHAPTER ONE

  CHAPTER TWO

  CHAPTER THREE

  CHAPTER FOUR

  CHAPTER FIVE

  CHAPTER SIX

  CHAPTER SEVEN

  CHAPTER EIGHT

  CHAPTER NINE

  CHAPTER TEN

  CHAPTER ELEVEN

  CHAPTER TWELVE

  CHAPTER THIRTEEN

  CHAPTER FOURTEEN

  CHAPTER FIFTEEN

  CHAPTER SIXTEEN

  CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

  CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

  CHAPTER NINETEEN

  CHAPTER TWENTY

  EPILOGUE

 

 

 


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