Ace and Slim glanced nervously at each other, but finally Slim spoke. “Oh yeah. Pretty much every city on the Comfort Sea. All these cities around here are Emerald, and the farmland too.” Now it was the rangers’ turn to exchange looks. Misha spoke up first. “When did that happen? I thought these cities were all owned by different groups. They were fifty years ago, last time I checked in.” Ace nodded. “Probably they were, fifty years ago. But Emerald bought everybody out. They did it on Gleise 581c too, right after the first settlers got it rotating again.” “Yeah, I remember that.” Slim
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