Three Bottles

[EisenSeele]

Sliding the drink to Caliban, Siegfried poured one for himself.
"What Caliban says is more or less the case." Siegfried took a slow sip, making an obvious effort to savor his drink.
"Every last one of these potential caches of alien technology have been a game of dice with the survival of humanity as collateral - and we simply cannot trust any of the other interested parties that look at these swords of damocles as nothing but new toys to use on the other children."

Taking another sip, Siegfried slowly sat back down at his seat, his practiced jovial demeanor slowly turning serious.
"With Liberty, the Order, and even my predecessors, ambition clouded them from seeing the sobering perspective that slapping a familiar name on an alien superweapon does not make us understand better how it works and what the price will be. I won't make any assumptions about your intentions are for what is contained on Sudbury, but I do know that you are the only ones keeping Liberty from taking it uncontested - and buying any amount of time to delay Libertonian ambitions on whatever it is they seek to do with another 'toy' is worth a great deal to me."

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