The Bobs had always been careful planners, allowing for all sorts of contingencies, so it was no surprise that we’d managed to hide a good deal of our assets from local governments through various not-quite-illegal strategies. Several lawsuits had been launched on different colony worlds after the Starfleet War, but most of our holdings had been liquidated and siphoned offworld before the plaintiffs could get properly started. At least that’s what it looked like. In reality, most of our net worth hadn’t gone off-planet but had been converted to some other form of asset. The Bobiverse was still
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