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The news as Bors got it from the men of Deccan was remarkable for two reasons: that so much of it was true, and that all of it was glamorized and romanticized and garbled. It was astonishing to find any relation at all between such fabulously romantic tales and the facts, because there was no way for news to travel between solar systems except on ships, and no ships had carried stories like these!
Here on Deccan, the shining-eyed young men _knew_ that Bors had landed on Tralee and on Garen. They _knew_ that there was a fleet in being which had fought and annihilated a Mekinese task-force many times its size.