PART 2: CELLINAThe awakening occurred as it always did, with barely the slightest pause between his last thought and the present; he found later there had been fifteen years in between. The resurrection machinery was by now quite sophisticated, able to reconstruct the entire army of recorded soldiers at one time in one place.
Hawker was standing in a large blue auditorium with more than a thousand other resurrectees. From the information the training probe had placed in his brain, he knew he was on the planet Cellina, third world out from a G-type star. The inhabitants were all of human descent, although by this time there’d been so much genetic engineering done that “humans” could be as bizarre as any alien. Hawker had been given a knowledge of the native language, since the army would d
