"Dune 03 - Whipping Mek (Short Story)" - читать интересную книгу автора (Herbert Brian & Frank) This is a work of fiction. All the characters and
events portrayed in this story are either fictitious or are used fictitiously. DUNE Whipping Mek A Tale of the Butlerian Jihad Copyright © 2003 Herbert Limited Partnership All rights reserved including the right to reproduce this booklet, or portions thereof, in any form. DUNE WHIPPING MEK A TALE OF THE BUTLERIAN JIHAD Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson When the armored Jihad warship arrived, the population of Giedi Prime expected news of a great victory against the evil thinking machines. But with only a glance at the battle-scarred vessel, young Vergyl Tantor could tell that the defense of Peridot Colony had not gone at all as planned. On the crowded fringe of Giedi City Spaceport, Vergyl rushed forward, pressing against the soldiers stuck there as ground troops, like himself: wide- eyed green recruits or veterans too old to be sent into battle against Omnius’s combat robots. His heart hammered like an industrial piston in his chest. He prayed that his adoptive brother, Xavier Harkonnen, was all right. The damaged battleship heaved itself into the docking circle like a dying sea beast beached on a reef. The big engines hissed and groaned as they cooled from the hot descent through the atmosphere. Vergyl stared at the blackened scars on the hull plates and tried to imagine the kinetic weapons and high-energy projectiles that combat robots had inflicted |
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