Chapter 6One of the drawbacks of being acommanding officer, even in an elite military unit, is there is agreat deal of paperwork, or computer work. I had asked the fewscientific personnel we had to send me e-mail reports of anyinformation gained about the planet. Rarely have I given an orderthat was so rapidly obeyed. We had set up our computercommunicationsquickly so there were still a few bugs in our system. I had to readfuzzy white letters on a puke green screen. At times the screenfadedinto an even uglier puke green and covered the letters. I had towaitabout a minute for the screen to refocus.
The most interesting fact covered inthe report was that the air in Sandeling had a toxin in it — a mostpeculiar toxin. Scientists could not readily identify it. At onetimeit might have been dead
