Legacy by James H. Shmitz Science Fiction Adventure Space Opera

<p><span>������������</span>                                              <strong>MEET TRIGGER ARGEE. . . . SHE'S ABOUT TO ENTER THE MYSTERY OF HER LIFE -- IN LEGACY</strong></p><p><strong>Holati Tate discovered them the ancient living machines -- then disappeared. </strong>Trigger Argee was his closest associate -- she means to find him. She's brilliant beautiful and skilled in every known martial art. She's worth plenty -- dead or alive -- to more than one faction in this obscure battle. And she's beginning to have a chilling notion that the long-vanished Masters of the Old Galaxy were wise when they exiled the plasmoids to the most distant and isolated world they knew. . . .</p><p>                                                                    SHE'S ABOUT TO ENTER THE MYSTERY OF HER LIFE -- IN LEGACY</p><p>Half a block from the shopping center a row of spacers on planet-leave came rollicking cheerily toward her. . . . Trigger shifted toward the edge of the sidewalk to let them pass. As the line swayed up on her left there was a shadowy settling of an aircar at the curb to her right.</p><p>With loud outcries of glad recognition and whoops of laughter the line swung in about her close. Bodies crowded against her a hand was clapped over her mouth. Other hands held her arms. Her feet came off the ground and she had a momentary awareness of being rushed expertly forward.</p><p>There was a lurching twist as the aircar shot upward.</p>