July 12, 3050 Gunzburg Daily News
The Wolf Clan made no effort to hide their JumpShips as they entered the Rasalhague system. We do not mean the edges of the Free Republic; we are speaking of the world itself, the world which is the capital and legislative center of our State. Within three days it is a foregone conclusion that the Wolves have this planet; they are swarming over it, meeting with determined yet futile resistance.
Their intelligence seems to be slightly at fault, for once. Instead of attacking the capital city of Reykjavik to subdue the planet by pre- emptory strike, they attacked Asgard, the city which is being built -- was being built -- to serve as the capital of a free people, a city which was to be a symbol.
Rasalhague spnit two centuries and more partitioned between the Draconis Combine and the Lyran Commonwealth, under foreign rule. Asgard, named for the Norse gods' dwelling place, was to be a city which had never known slavery, fit capital for a realm of free men and women.
Whatever happens in the long run to this invasion, Asgard will never be built.
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