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way we found that works is killing the buggers before they kill us. Think of it this way. In all the bugger wars sofar, they've killed thousands and thousands of living, thinking beings. And in all those wars, we've killed onlyone.""If you hadn't killed the queen, Mazer, would we have lost the war?""I'd say the odds would have been three to two against us. I still think I could have trashed their fleet prettybadly before they burned us out. They have great response time and a lot of firepower, but we have a fewadvantages, too. Every single one of our ships contains an intelligent human being who's thinking on his own.Every one of us is capable of coming up with a brilliant solution to a problem. They can only come up with onebrilliant solution at a time. The buggers think fast, but they aren't smart all over. Even when some incrediblytimid and stupid commanders lost the major battles of the Second Invasion, some of their subordinates were ableto do real damage to the bugger fleet.""What about when our invasion reaches them? Will we just get the queen again?""The buggers didn't learn interstellar travel by being dumb. That was a strategy that could work only once. Isuspect that we'll never get near a queen unless we actually make it to their home planet. After all, the queendoesn't have to be with them to direct a battle. The queen only has to be present to have little baby buggers. TheSecond invasion was a colony -- the queen was coming to populate the Earth. But this time -- no, that won'twork. We'll have to beat them fleet by fleet. And because they have the resources of dozens of star systems todraw on, my guess is they'll outnumber us by a lot, in every battle."Ender remembered his battle against two armies at once. And I thought they were cheating. When the real warbegins, it'll be like that every time. And there won't be any gate I can go for."We've only got two things going for us, Ender. We don't have to aim particularly well. Our weapons have greatspread.""Then we aren't using the nuclear missiles from the First and Second Invasions?""Dr. Device is much more powerful. Nuclear weapons, after all, were weak enough to be used on Earth at one第 284 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网