From the back cover: "As easy as One-Tzu-Three: • "In difficult ground, press on; • In encircled ground, devise strategems; • In death ground, fight." -- Sun Tzu in The Art of War (circa 400 B.C.) Five thousand years later, in the time of the Fourth Interstellar War, the advice still makes sense. The Bugs have a superior drive technology, overwhelming numbers and a strategy that's mind-numbingly alien. For the humans and their enemies-turned-allies, the catlike Orions, choosing their strategy was as easy as One-Tzu-Three: FIGHT!"
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Placement
- Starfire (Steve White and collaborators) — #3
- contained in The At All Costs Diskomnibus
- contained in The Hell Hath No Fury Diskomnibus
- contained in The Mission of Honor Diskomnibus
- contained in The Stars at Waromnibus
- contained in The Storm from the Shadows Diskomnibus
- contained in The Torch of Freedom Diskomnibus