Espionage and Intrigue in the
Far Reaches of the Galaxy
from the Creator of Telzey Amberdon
and Trigger Argee
The Galaxy was not a nice neighborhood,
and most would have laid bets that the Vegan Confederacy was too small
and weak to survive, let along prosper. But prosper it did, to the
bewilderment of observers, who didn't know about the Vegans' secret
weapon.
Once, the Galactic Empire had spanned the
stars and when it crumbled and fell, star systems were isolated, some
barely surviving, many becoming tyrannical feifdoms, others turning to
piracy, and all of them often at war with each other. The Confederacy
didn't have huge space armadas, and millions of troops to protect itself
and re-civilize its neighbors, but it did have the Zone agents. Few
outside the top echelons of the Confederacy even knew that they existed,
and even fewer had an inkling of how the agents time and again could
appear on the spot just when a push in the right place could stop a war,
topple a despot, or thwart an invasion of unfriendly aliens.
Their numbers were pitifully few, and they
had to patrol vast stretches of space. They were helped by their ships,
bristling with hidden armament and piloted by robot brains of high
intelligence. But their main weapon was that the minds of their
opponents were open books to them. Not all of the Agents of Vega were
human, but they were the most powerful telepaths the Galaxy had ever
known . . .
Publisher's Note: Part of Agent of Vega
& Other Stories has previously appeared separately. This is the
first expanded, unitary publication.
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