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The battle in space was, to the naked eye, hardly visible -- brief flashes of radiation among the swarming stars, occasionally the dark form of a ship slipping by and occulting a wisp of the Milky Way. But Admiral Walton smiled with cold satisfaction at the totality of reports given him by the semantic integrator.
"We're mopping them up," he said. "Our task force has twice their strength, and they're disorganized and demoralized anyway."