Are you ready, Barrydihoa? Good. Do not be nervous. -I'm not nervous. I'm concerned. I have a right to be; this is pretty important to us. That is understood Simply commence; we wish youu to begin by describing the circumstances of your first meeting with Garoldtscharka. Please. °Yes, of course,. Barrydihoa. The correction is noted. Please."

The first time I met Captain Garold Tscharka was on hiss ship, Corsair. He was in a bad mood. The ship had just come back from the Pava colony, and it was parked in Low Lunar Orbit. The way things looked, it was going to be staying there for a while, because of the brouhaha about the interstellar colonies that was going on in the Congresses.