There be pirates in the vast void of space! Does not the poet say: Beware the strangeness of the stranger. Unknown things bring unknown danger? The noble ship Procrustes was silent as a ghost. Warships can be silent if they are slow; only their missiles need speed. And so it was silently, slowly, that Procrustes approached the stranger's cold vessel.
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There be pirates in the vast void of space! Does not the poet say: Beware the strangeness of the stranger. Unknown things bring unknown danger? The noble ship Procrustes was silent as a ghost. Warships can be silent if they are slow; only their missiles need speed. And so it was silently, slowly, that Procrustes approached the stranger's cold vessel.