标题: 《Freedom's Challenge 》作者：- Anne McCaffrey【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-4-20 20:56 标题: 《Freedom's Challenge 》作者：- Anne McCaffrey【EP Freedoms Challenge Copyright 1998 by Anne McCaffrey Synopsis: The colonists from quotFreedoms Landingquot and quotFreedoms Choicequot have made a new home forthemselves on the planet where they were abandoned by the warlike Cattani. Now they possessthe technology they need to go back to war with the deadly Eosi--with a surprise strike atenslaved planet Earth itself. Freedoms Challenge WHEN THE CATTENI MERCENARIES for a race called Eosi invaded Earth they used their standardtactic of domination by landing in fifty cities across the planet and removing entire urbanpopulations. These they distributed through the Catteni worlds and sold them as slaves alongwith other conquered species. A group rounded up from Barevi the hub of the slave trade were dumped on an M-type planet ofunknown quality given rations and tools and allowed to survive or not. A former marinesergeant Chuck Mitford took charge of the mixed group which included sullen Turs spider-like Deski hairy Rugarians vague IIinish gaunt Morphins with humans in the majority. There was also one Catteni who had been shanghaied onto the prison ship. Though there werethose who wanted to kill him immediately Kris Bjornsen lately of Denver suggested that hemight know enough about the planet to help them. He remembered sufficient from a casual glance at the initial exploration report to suggest theymove under cover and preferably rock to prevent being eaten by night crawlers which oozedfrom the ground to ingest anything edible. Installed in a rocky site with cliffs and caves to give them some protection. Mitford quicklyorganized a camp utilizing the specific qualities of the aliens and assigning tasks to everyone in this unusual community. However the planet was soon discovered to be inhabited by machines which automatically