Beanstalk
by John Rackham
Behind every folktale there is a true story and behind every legend
a lost fact of history, distorted by word of mouth of people who
did not understand what was really happening. In the case of the
infiltration of the highly strategic space station upon which the
battle between the salviar Federation and the Hilax Combine pivoted,
the account of Earth's role in the affair has become greatly
distorted. Because that was eight hundred years ago and the men of
Olde England never even knew the world was round, let alone that it
was a planet. Earth still doesn't know which side we were on and
because we are out on a far limb of Galactic Sector Seven they
haven't contacted us yet. But our very position in the Milky Way
just that once made our little planet strategic -- and when Salviar's
scout Jasar-am-Bax had to enlist the aid of a clever yound yeoman to
launch his kamikaze attack the result became legend.
Jack and the Beanstalk
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