Simon and Schuster Audio Works presents The Web of the Romulans by MS Murdoch.

This program is read by George Tache with Leonard Nimoy as the voice of Spock. And so's Stalin, you have been selected. It is a chance of a lifetime.

Continue the Romulan Prateror If you serve the empire well, it will serve you.

The risks are high, but the rewards are great.

Go with the prey lesson. The high and mighty words could not disguise the truth.

Stalo-endal. He was an ache in the praetor's side, and now he had graciously been granted the opportunity to die. Surrounded on

all sides by treachery and deceit, spied upon and used, he was tired of it all. Even if the empire survived, he was leading

his crew into certain destruction. They would die, so the Praetor and his ilk could survive to build another empire more selfish

and deceitful than the last succession upon succession of over-indulged parasites feeding

on the toil of others. He rubbed us for him, knowing he was right,

knowing also that he would carry out the mission to the best visibility. There were innocent lives at stake too and if he saved

one of those it would be enough. The centurion rose as Stalin backed backed from the Praetor's audience chamber.

The ship awaits commander, she began.

But Stalone turned abruptly and strode angrily down the corridor.

The Centurion had to run to keep up with them. They wound

through meandering streets and she tried not to see the empty city. The worst of the

cataclysm had hit the capital and its gate had long since been shut. Its population

evacuated. Those who remained were ravaged and hopeless. It was rumored that Prater would not leave his palace for fear of them.

A centurion shivered and moved closer to Stalin, almost running into him as he came to a sudden halt.

Stalin sighed.

I will not ask you, censuring, to accompany me to certain death.

You need not ask, commander.

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