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Eric Thomson

Biography

Eric Thomson is my pen name. I'm a former Canadian soldier who spent more years in uniform than he expected, serving in both the Regular Army (Infantry) and the Army Reserve (Armoured Corps). I spent several years as an Information Technology executive for the Canadian government before leaving the bowels of the demented bureaucracy to become a full-time author.

I've been a voracious reader of science-fiction, military fiction and history all my life, assiduously devouring the recommended Army reading list in my younger days and still occasionally returning to the classics for inspiration. Several years ago, I put my fingers to the keyboard and started writing my own military sci-fi, with a definite space opera slant, using many of my own experiences as a soldier as an inspiration for my stories and characters. When I'm not writing fiction, I indulge in my other passions: photography, hiking and scuba diving, all of which I've shared with my wife, who likes to call herself my #1 fan, for more than thirty years.

Where to find Eric Thomson online

Website: http://thomsonfiction.ca/

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Siobhan Dunmoore by
No Honor in Death
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The Path of Duty
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Like Stars in Heaven
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Victory's Bright Dawn
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Without Mercy
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When the Guns Roar
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Constabulary Casefiles by
The Warrior's Knife
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A Colonial Murder
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The Dirty and the Dead
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A Peril So Dire
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Ghost Squadron by
We Dare
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Deadly Intent
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Die Like the Rest
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Fear No Darkness
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Ashes of Empire by
Imperial Sunset
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Imperial Twilight
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Imperial Night
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Imperial Echoes
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Imperial Ghosts
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Commonwealth and Empire by
Decker's War: Books 1-3
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Siobhan Dunmoore: Books 1-3
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Decker's War by
Death Comes But Once
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Cold Comfort
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Fatal Blade
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Howling Stars
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Black Sword
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No Remorse
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Books

The Final Shore by
Series: Siobhan Dunmoore, Book 9. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 90,150. Language: English. Originally Published: March 14, 2024 by Sanddiver Books Inc.. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
The Shrehari War ended over twenty years ago, but a new threat is looming over the Commonwealth, this time from within. Centralists, whose dream is to concentrate power on Earth by stripping sovereign star systems of their autonomy, finally have one of their own as Secretary General, the highest office in human space. And she wants to do it as fast as possible. But for that, she needs the...
A Peril So Dire by
Series: Constabulary Casefiles, Book 4. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 75,910. Language: English. Originally Published: June 13, 2023 by Sanddiver Books Inc.. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
When Caelin Morrow took over Anti-Corruption Unit 12, she figured hunting down dishonest senior officers would be her biggest challenge. But she wasn't counting on Rear Admiral Hera Talyn making the job interesting by having her investigate treasonous Fleet personnel as well. And traitors are much more dangerous than crooks. With her usual independent attitude, Morrow is creating waves at the...
Fear No Darkness by
Series: Ghost Squadron, Book 4. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 79,950. Language: English. Published: February 8, 2023 by Sanddiver Books Inc.. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
The Commonwealth is teetering on its last legs. But will it go down gently or dissolve into a civil war as brutal as any in human history? That is the dilemma Colonel Zack Decker and Ghost Squadron face as they're tapped to protect a last-ditch effort to salvage a possibility of peace. And that last ditch effort is being held on Decker's home planet, a place he left long ago to put as many...
Imperial Night by
Series: Ashes of Empire, Book 3. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 98,190. Language: English. Originally Published: June 12, 2020 by Sanddiver Books Inc.. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
Humanity's interstellar empire died in fire and blood, leaving wrecked star systems to face the long night of barbarism. One tiny spark of civilization remains: The Republic of Lyonesse, tucked away at the end of a wormhole cul-de-sac. Yet that last bastion could suffer the same dire fate. When the late empress unleashed the Four Horsemen of the...
A Colonial Murder by
Series: Constabulary Casefiles, Book 2. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 79,180. Language: English. Originally Published: August 26, 2020 by Sanddiver Books Inc.. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
My name is Caelin Morrow, and I run the internal affairs bureau for the entire Commonwealth Rim Sector. It means I hunt down corrupt federal officials of all stripes — police, military, political or bureaucratic — in the most fractious and nowadays most dangerous part of human space. I also examine the private and professional lives of Constabulary officials destined for senior positions, to...
The Warrior's Knife by
Series: Constabulary Casefiles, Book 1. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 95,990. Language: English. Originally Published: December 3, 2017 by Sanddiver Books Inc.. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Police Procedural, Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera
My name is Caelin Morrow, and I'm one of the most hated cops in the Rim Sector. I work for a branch of the Commonwealth Constabulary, humanity's interstellar police force, called the Professional Compliance Bureau. We're the Commonwealth government's internal affairs division and hunt down bent cops, corrupt officials, and misbehaving military personnel. My fellow Constabulary members neither...
Die Like the Rest by
Series: Ghost Squadron, Book 3. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 75,650. Language: English. Originally Published: November 1, 2021 by Sanddiver Books Inc.. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
History has a habit of reaching out from the grave and reminding us of our species' greatest failings. Humanity's Migration Wars which birthed the Commonwealth of Sovereign Star Systems were the deadliest and most destructive in history. But not everyone draws the same lessons from past atrocities that were burned into the human psyche. For some, our species must do anything to avoid another...
Siobhan Dunmoore: Books 1-3 by
Series: Commonwealth and Empire. Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 357,670. Language: English. Originally Published: June 29, 2021 by Sanddiver Books Inc.. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
(5.00 from 1 review)
Now, for the first time, the three books that started a legend are together in a single edition. Book 1: No Honor in Death Siobhan Dunmoore isn't having a good war. She's had more ships shot out from under her by the invading Shrehari Empire than any other officer in the Fleet. Some call her overly aggressive. Others simply call her reckless. What the enemy calls her is something else...
The Dirty and the Dead by
Series: Constabulary Casefiles, Book 3. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 79,470. Language: English. Originally Published: February 7, 2022 by Sanddiver Books Inc.. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
Investigating war crimes isn't Assistant Commissioner Caelin Morrow's usual sort of case. She normally hunts down corrupt Commonwealth officials. But with the reorganization of the Professional Compliance Bureau's Anti-Corruption Division, Morrow inherits primary responsibility for military crimes requiring outside scrutiny. And for her first case as the new head of Anti-Corruption Unit 12...
Imperial Echoes by
Series: Ashes of Empire, Book 4. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 97,580. Language: English. Originally Published: March 23, 2021 by Sanddiver Books Inc.. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
The collapse of humanity's first interstellar empire is passing into legend, perhaps even myth, now that the ones who could remember those tumultuous years have merged with the Infinite Void. Tiny Lyonesse, the self-appointed guardian of all human knowledge tucked away in its wormhole cul-de-sac, has spent generations preparing to carry out...
Imperial Sunset by
Series: Ashes of Empire, Book 1. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 95,590. Language: English. Originally Published: June 28, 2018 by Sanddiver Books Inc.. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
Humanity's thousand-year-old interstellar empire has been rotting from the inside for over a century, thanks to venal, corrupt, and power-hungry sovereigns from a dynasty many consider illegitimate. The latest in that lineage, an increasingly psychotic empress, is pushing her realm toward catastrophic collapse as admirals and generals rebel against her rule. That rebellion quickly drags the...
We Dare by
Series: Ghost Squadron, Book 1. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 76,420. Language: English. Originally Published: December 18, 2019 by Sanddiver Books Inc.. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
The Marines of Ghost Squadron are humanity's foremost black ops specialists who strike without warning and vanish without a trace. They will do whatever is necessary to protect humanity anywhere in the known galaxy. With the Commonwealth increasingly unstable thanks to venal politicians, greedy financiers, and power-hungry revolutionaries, they don't lack for missions. When an undercover...
Hard Strike by
Series: Decker's War, Book 7. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 97,330. Language: English. Originally Published: January 19, 2019 by Sanddiver Books Inc.. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
Terrorists working for traitors intent on transforming the Commonwealth into a brutal empire are preparing to spread mayhem across the vulnerable and increasingly unstable Rim Sector. Their aim: replace sovereign star system governments with satraps under the direct control of Earth, thereby undoing generations of civil peace between humanity's many fractious branches. During an operation to...
No Remorse by
Series: Decker's War, Book 6. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 104,220. Language: English. Originally Published: March 15, 2018 by Sanddiver Books Inc.. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
Wanted by their enemies for exposing the Black Sword cabal and faced with the difficult task of rebuilding the Special Operations Division while treason remains rampant, Major Zack Decker and Commander Hera Talyn are stuck in desk jobs. Until, that is, the Coalition and its minions decide to make things very personal. Forced back into the role of field operatives, they discover a plot to...
Black Sword by
Series: Decker's War, Book 5. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 104,090. Language: English. Originally Published: August 10, 2017 by Sanddiver Books Inc.. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Military, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage
Covert missions are failing, Fleet officers are vanishing, and Naval Intelligence is losing its eyes, ears, and the ability to strike at its foes. After Zack Decker and Hera Talyn, the Special Operations Section's deadliest agents, narrowly escape betrayal for the third time in a row, the Marine suspects something more than bad luck is in play. For years, the Fleet has been fighting a shadowy...
Imperial Ghosts by
Series: Ashes of Empire, Book 5. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 97,420. Language: English. Originally Published: July 5, 2022 by Sanddiver Books Inc.. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
Humanity's first empire collapsed centuries ago, but two tiny shards kept the ability to travel across the stars at faster than light speeds: the Wyvern Hegemony and the Republic of Lyonesse. Each considers itself the heir of the old empire and swore an oath of reunification. Yet only one can rule over humanity reunited. As they race to absorb...
A Dark and Dirty War by
Series: Siobhan Dunmoore, Book 7. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 91,030. Language: English. Originally Published: July 10, 2021 by Sanddiver Books Inc.. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
Life hasn't been easy for Siobhan Dunmoore and many of her fellow veterans since the Shrehari War ended. The Fleet's quick return to a mundane peacetime footing left them unmoored and incapable of fully readapting after years engulfed in an existential struggle. Meanwhile, the memories of all those hard-won lessons, paid for with humanity's dearest blood, are fading as careerists, bureaucrats...
Cold Comfort by
Series: Decker's War, Book 2. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 110,670. Language: English. Originally Published: March 1, 2017 by Sanddiver Books Inc.. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Military, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Adventure » War & military adventure
Some people never learn that it's a really bad idea to mess with a Marine Pathfinder, even one who has been forced into early retirement. Zack Decker just wanted to be left alone so he could live a quiet life with the woman he loved and make up for lost time, but his enemies simply couldn't resist the temptation to pursue their vendetta. One moment, he was hauling cargo across the depths of...
Like Stars in Heaven by
Series: Siobhan Dunmoore, Book 3. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 110,020. Language: English. Originally Published: February 13, 2017 by Sanddiver Books Inc.. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Military, Fiction » Adventure » War & military adventure
One last mission. One mysterious passenger. One baffling destination. After centuries of travel, an ancient log buoy finally reaches human-controlled space. In the midst of a stalemated interstellar war, the Admiralty has little interest in wasting resources on what would likely be a fruitless search for the truth, but someone was able to...
The Path of Duty by
Series: Siobhan Dunmoore, Book 2. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 116,770. Language: English. Originally Published: January 18, 2017 by Sanddiver Books Inc.. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Military, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Adventure » War & military adventure
Duty, honour, loyalty. What meaning did those words still hold in the midst of a stalemated interstellar war where the difference between the enemy and one's own leadership was sometimes paper thin? Unfairly relegated to punishment duty far from the battle lines and still pursued by her past, Siobhan Dunmoore was ordered to sail her ship deep...
Deadly Intent by
Series: Ghost Squadron, Book 2. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 75,620. Language: English. Originally Published: October 14, 2020 by Sanddiver Books Inc.. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
Chaos, created by factions determined to end the centuries-old accord between human settled worlds and Earth, is spreading at an alarming rate. Centralists, aided and abetted by their corporate paymasters, are working hard to destabilize sovereign star systems and strip them of independence. Only the Fleet's hard-pressed Special Forces can stop those who would foment a series of violent...
On Stormy Seas by
Series: Siobhan Dunmoore, Book 8. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 92,810. Language: English. Originally Published: September 13, 2022 by Sanddiver Books Inc.. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
All good things must end, and a reluctant Siobhan Dunmoore trades command of her battle group for a staff job ashore. Yet her appointment to the headquarters of the 3rd Fleet, responsible for humanity's most restive frontier, is no accident. Things aren't quite right in what was once the most ferocious and effective formation in the Navy, and its control over the Rim Sector's outer edges is...
Without Mercy by
Series: Siobhan Dunmoore, Book 5. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 101,120. Language: English. Originally Published: October 4, 2018 by Sanddiver Books Inc.. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
What is the value of one life in an interstellar war that has already claimed millions? And if that single life doesn't matter, are any others worth saving? A distress signal draws Siobhan Dunmoore's Q-ship Iolanthe, a battlecruiser disguised as a bulk freighter, away from her devastatingly successful hunt through Shrehari occupied space and plunges Dunmoore into a dark, merciless universe of...
Victory's Bright Dawn by
Series: Siobhan Dunmoore, Book 4. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 104,910. Language: English. Originally Published: May 1, 2017 by Sanddiver Books Inc.. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
Captain Siobhan Dunmoore wanted to believe the long war against the invading Shrehari Empire had finally banished the ghosts of her past. But when her ship Iolanthe, a heavily armed man-of-war masked as a bulk freighter, finds itself in need of replenishment after a long patrol spent stalking human and alien foes, she is confronted with events eerily reminiscent of a past she thought buried...
Decker's War: Books 1-3 by
Series: Commonwealth and Empire. Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 349,000. Language: English. Originally Published: June 26, 2021 by Sanddiver Books Inc.. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
The dream of a stable, democratic human Commonwealth has been dying for years. Politicians, financiers, and spies vie for supremacy, power, and wealth in pursuit of a nightmarish vision that can have only one outcome, the creation of a repressive interstellar empire. All that stands between them and their goal is a small band of determined Fleet...
Fatal Blade by
Series: Decker's War, Book 3. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 117,820. Language: English. Originally Published: March 1, 2017 by Sanddiver Books Inc.. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Military, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage
Someone was setting fire to the Commonwealth Rim, nurturing a storm to drag humanity through the horrors of colonial warfare and thereby hasten the rise of Empire. Their plan had just one fatal flaw: it didn't count on an ex-Marine pathfinder with a grudge, a dagger and a deadly partner. Zack Decker had seen enough of war to know this one had to be stopped before it turned into an all-out...
Death Comes But Once by
Series: Decker's War, Book 1. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 121,790. Language: English. Originally Published: March 1, 2017 by Sanddiver Books Inc.. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Military, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General
Zack Decker wanted only one thing in life: to fight as a Marine Pathfinder. But his temper and his loathing for careerist officers cost him dearly. Forced into early retirement, with a wife who left him long ago, no job, no friends and no future, the former sergeant crawled into a bottle and stayed there, moving from planet to planet, looking for some reason to keep on living. Until, that is...
When the Guns Roar by
Series: Siobhan Dunmoore, Book 6. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 98,350. Language: English. Originally Published: October 21, 2019 by Sanddiver Books Inc.. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
Captain Siobhan Dunmoore no longer enjoys the freedom to fight the Shrehari Empire on her own terms aboard the Q-ship Iolanthe. Special Operations Command has assigned her to Task Force Luckner, whose mission is replicating Iolanthe's success on a larger scale. Unfortunately, neither her new superior, Rear Admiral Kell Petras, nor any other captain in the task force understands successful...
Howling Stars by
Series: Decker's War, Book 4. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 110,480. Language: English. Originally Published: March 1, 2017 by Sanddiver Books Inc.. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Military, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General
Every Marine has a story about someone he couldn't save, a face that would haunt him forever. When Command Sergeant Hal Tarra, one of Decker's oldest friends, vanishes on the Commonwealth frontier shortly after taking early retirement from the Corps, Zack knows what memories are driving the former Pathfinder, because he sees the same face in his worst nightmares. Naval intelligence isn't...
Imperial Twilight by
Series: Ashes of Empire, Book 2. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 102,450. Language: English. Originally Published: June 9, 2019 by Sanddiver Books Inc.. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
The most powerful empire in human history is rushing headlong toward destruction, ending our species' supremacy in the known galaxy. Two men with widely divergent visions are on a mission to save civilization in at least one sector, far from the imperial capital where a demented ruler holds sway. The first, Jonas Morane, wants to create an...
No Honor in Death by
Series: Siobhan Dunmoore, Book 1. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 131,210. Language: English. Originally Published: January 3, 2017 by Sanddiver Books Inc.. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Military, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Adventure » War & military adventure
(4.50 from 2 reviews)
Siobhan Dunmoore was not having a good war. She's had more ships shot out from under her by the invading Shrehari Empire than any other officer in the Fleet. Some called her overly aggressive. Others simply called her reckless. What the enemy called her was something else altogether. That she gave the Shrehari a good drubbing along the way didn't matter in the least, because not all her enemies...

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