Wherever man ventures, war is with him.
No force could ever divorce them. Not morality. Not the vastness of space or the span of all time.
They leave their wives in their homes, and depart their planets for a mistress who always beckons two lovers.
In their jealous wrath, they will make manifest the deepest cruelties that their dark hearts possess.
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In the late twenty third century, humankind had established their first extra-solar colony on the distant planet of Zidikar. By the beginning