Chapter Four
With his injury, Gray Boar could not fight the Army's desire to get him
out of active duty. They offered him a laboratory near Northern, safe
from the enemy's reach, with everything he needed.
2 All he had to do was ask for something, and in a couple of days even
when he asked for a couple of assistants who were outspoken critics of
the government, he got them.
3 "I don't care what a man's religious or political views are," said
Gray Boar, "all I care about is his knowledge. I hate this damn war as
much as everybody else, and understand young people's desire for peace.
4 It is hard for them to understand that The Oneness cannot be trusted
and they won't keep any bargain made with them. It just isn't their
nature.
5 They've broken every cease fire they've made as soon as they thought
it was to their advantage. They'll break another as fast as we make it,
unless we're so strong they know they can't defeat us."
6 One of Gray Boar's greatest thoughts was that of the waste of
anti-aircraft fire. Only one round in ten ever hit anything. There had
to be a better way!
7 He experimented with several ideas. One worked rather well, though it
still didn't satisfy him. It was a shell that when fired, carried ten
small bombs up in the air. When the shell exploded, it only threw out
the bombs, then, the bombs, in themselves, exploded.
8 This made the area of coverage much greater. The shells
didn't have to be as accurate to hit a mark, but Gray Boar still wasn't
satisfied. He began to experiment with rockets.
9 "Planes make a lot of noise," he thought. "If I could build a rocket
that would follow the plane's noise and then explode when it reaches
it, we would get far more