Combat

"[...]Roman Empire. They want to channel us, and they're willing to help, to direct our comparatively new science into paths that won't conflict with them. They want to bring us peacefully into their society of advanced life forms." Sheridan Hennessey allowed himself a rueful grimace. "That makes quite a speech, doesn't it? At any rate, that's the situation." "Well, where do I come into this? I'm afraid I'm on the bewildered side." "Yes. Well, damn it, they've landed in Moscow. They've evidently assumed the Soviet complex—the Soviet[...]".