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This is a preview of: Phoebus Krumm

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Three Panels

PANEL ONE (upper half of page)

A nighttime raid. Two or three ships visible in the sky, shown out of scale as the moon is sometimes. On the ground, raiders smashing, grabbing, looting, burning. One seizes a unwilling female. Bodies lie everywhere among the wreckage.

Demondion-Echeverria (from out of panel): 'For ages, a balance was maintained. Violent episodes between us have been small, local, brief -- though it may not seem so to one who lost both wives in a border raid.'

Krumm (from out of panel): 'I accept your analysis, Frantisek, pray
continue.'

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PANEL TWO (lower lefthand quarter of page)

Three-shot, at the table, Demondion-Echeverria, Tarrant, and
Krumm.

Demondion-Echeverria: 'Yet in all that time, Jendyne rulers and our
people, too, have felt themselves under the lee of the Monopolity.'

Tarrant: 'Under the lee?'

Krumm: 'In its shadow, our sails 'stealing' their tachyon 'wind'.'

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PANEL THREE (lower right quarter of page)

Another 'state portrait', but this one simply framed by the panel
edges. The man, seen from the belly up, is dressed like Philip II of
Spain in a black, high-collared tunic with a ruff. Emerging from his
lace-cuffed left sleeve is the business end of a personal thrustible.

On his chest is a small silver replica of the galaxy with a ruby
at the center. His face is that of Dick Cheney.

Demondion-Echeverria (from out of panel): 'None more so than the
present Ceo, Burton Halliwater -- '