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Testimony of Science Liaison to Reserve World 84, “ New Stadaco na” I touched down at a pad on the edge of what they were calling the New Deccan Range, a ridge of mountains so steep they looked like a line of daggers. I had seen satellite imagery, but it was nothing compared to the view from the surface. There were half a dozen System geology teams petitioning for clearance to study the Range, all of whom the provisional government had denied. The settlers wanted, they told us, time to get their surface legs again and catch up on what