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starship may leave your system and no outside starship can enter your system. It is as if an invisible wall surrounds your system.” She touched a knob on her own chest strap and a new holo appeared to one side. It showed a yellow star with white planet crescents. The next image showed nothing but blackness even though the background star pattern was the same. “While an Isolated people can survive within their home system, they will no longer have any contact with other Hunters of the Great Dark. Or any part of our universe.”
    Shit. Double shit . “Humanity possesses dozens of well-armed starships. Our Higgs Disruptor beam can destroy any solid object, while our negative matter beam can break up a moon. Our fleets will stop any such entry by the Arbitors.”
    Hilok cantered forward, leaving his two offspring behind. “It matters not your weapons or the size of your fleet. That ship of the Arbitor cannot be harmed. No energy weapon and no solid weapon can reach it. The Arbitor ship possesses a . . . a shield against all forces of this universe. Even a supernova could not destroy it.”
    Jack felt his heart hammer in his chest. He did not want to believe what Hilok and Nalik were saying. Perhaps they were wrong. Or misinformed. “Where is the home system of these Arbitors? If they harm Sol system, we will attack their system. As we did the system of the HikHikSot.”
    “As I said earlier, the home system of the Arbitors is unknown,” Hilok said in a high-toned snarl. “All that matters is that the Arbitors exist and they handle all disputes between Hunters. The fourteen Hunter systems that disobeyed their judgment are absent from this universe.” Hilok blinked slowly, his manner subdued. “Pack Leader Jack, there is a reason the Hunters of the Great Dark social pattern has existed for 3,000 cycles. It is a system that works. It gives predator species like ours a means of colonizing other star systems. It provides rules for the treatment of subject peoples. And it makes clear juvenile people will not be disturbed by a Hunter until they reach the outermost planet of their star system. At which time they will face a personal Challenge to Combat.” The Nasen’s hands gripped tightly his chest strap. “You Humans survived the Challenge mounted by the HikHikSot. You Humans proved you are a predator species worthy of your status as a new Hunter of the Great Dark. A fact that the Arbitor noted. Accept this status and you will find a useful place in this part of the galaxy. But if you defy the Arbitors, you Humans will be cut off from contact with other star systems. You will be Isolated.”
    “Hilok,” called Nikola. “Is this Isolation ever lifted by the Arbitors? Even we humans do not put our criminals into cages until they die. We offer them a time at which they may go free.”
    The front screen image showed Nalik and Sator moving back to recline on their floor pads. As if the puzzle of the Arbitor presence was settled. Hilok’s tail whipped from side to side.
    “Isolation is never lifted. Or so we have heard after several generations of Trade contact with other Hunters.” The Nasen let go his chest strap, licked his white canines with a purple tongue, then grunted loudly. “Pack Leader Jack, you Humans are a powerful predator species. Expand your Hunt territory by taking over subject peoples now controlled by other Hunters. That is how we Nasen gained our subject systems. It is how other Hunters gained their subjects. Make Trade with other Hunters, as we have done. While your weapons technology is powerful, other Hunters have unique technology for trade. Like the mind-talking we Nasen do with our devices. Accept the reality of the Hunters system and you Humans will become a feared predator of the Great Dark!”
    Jack felt a cold shiver run up his neck. Was the Hunters system truly a permanent fixture of the Orion Arm? Was it impossible for non-predator Aliens to travel star-to-star? Was the Freedom Alliance