Spacedep

Why are Codep and Spacedep ships reporting a state of siege?

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If he could just get the men to scatter, on the chance that this was Spacedep or Codep, that would delay departure.

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None had been reported by Spacedep, Alreldep or Codep.

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Their leader and the metropologist of the group, Dr. Hu Shih, was quite a guy; soft-spoken but firm, he seemed to know every frame of the Spacedep survey and the Alreldep reports.

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And never, since the mass suicide of the gentle Siwannese, had a colony been set up where another intelligent species had been discovered by Spacedep.

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They say, the most thorough search was carried out according to strict Spacedep and Alreldep exploratory techniques.

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"Not if the Spacedep wants us to search the planet for an alien touch-down burn-off," Eckerd remarked.

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"Nevertheless, it does not bear on the fact that our noble Spacedep has committed a grave error."

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"So, instead of showing the Spacedep these misbegotten natives and thrusting the blame on them?"

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The Codep blazon was plainly visible on the second ship, a comfortingly smaller craft than the Spacedep one; it was not an obvious transport vessel.

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