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Usage examples of edwards.

In any case, the data Edwards had furnished the Invid regarding the Sentinels' ship had already linked the two of them in a separate peace.

But Edwards was willing to play out the charade-even if it amounted to nothing more than an opportunity to appraise his potential partner.

A majority of the council had ruled against the show of force Edwards had pushed for, but as a concession, he had been allowed to crowd the bay with rank after rank of spit-shined mecha-Battloids, Logans, Hovertanks, Excalibers, Spartans, and the like.

But all the Protoculture pataphysics in the galaxy couldn't keep Edwards from gaping.

Recovered, Edwards stepped forward to greet the alien in Tiresian, then repeated the words in English.

The Regent's size had necessitated a specific route, along which Edwards had made certain to place as many varieties of mecha as he could muster.

While aboard, the Regent's every word and step would be monitored by the extensive security system Edwards had made operational as part of his Code Pyramid project-a system that had also managed to find its way into the council's public and private chambers, and into many of the fortress's Robotechnological labs and inner sanctums.

Lang had warned Rick about Edwards during one of the last links the Farrago had had with Base Tirol, and it was difficult to keep the memory of that brief deep-space commo from surfacing.

During the first session of the truce negotiations, the Regent had thrown a kind of temper tantrum, which only Edwards recognized as being as false as the Invid himself.

But Edwards was delighted to hear that the council had overruled the scientist's objections and that Longchamps and the others were counting on him to see the talks through to their completion.

He had been managing to hold his own with the council, in spite of Edwards, and at the same time was overseeing both the mining operations on Fantoma and the repairs to the SDF-3.

But the Regent's visit had introduced something new and threatening to the horizon: the possibility of a partnership between Edwards and the Invid.

He was aware of the hostilities that had cropped up between Breetai and Edwards over the issue of the Regent's arrival, and he knew precisely where the Zentraedi's loyalties lay.

There, Lang reviewed what had been said during the so-called truce talks, and what reported statements had been exchanged between Edwards and the Regent during the subsequent one-on-one sessions.

She was standing alongside Edwards, among that unresponsive group, offering him a weak and pathetic smile.