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THE PROBLEM WITH HAVING your pick of alien technology, Wilder had discovered, was that a lot of the time you had no immediate use for it. She’d come to regret her decision to ask for one piece of top tech from each member of the Galactic Assembly in return for a working a-grav generator and specs. A new world for the Concordian colonists to inhabit would have been a better price tag to put on her invention. Planets hospitable to life were scarce, and planets that would sustain humans were probably even rarer, but if the friendly aliens had pooled their knowledge and resources, they might have found something suitable.
As it was, she had loads of tech she barely understood and mostly couldn’t use, and the colony was stuck on a planet devastated by a viral biocide. Not only that,
