Relic of War

<p><strong>Space cadets go looking for trouble ... and find it.</strong></p><p></p><p>You don't need an academy just put those cadets on ships of their own give them their lesson plans and see what they come up with. </p><p></p><p>The Solar Patrol cadets on the Able Countryman find an abandoned military base in an asteroid left over from the war.</p><p></p><p>Nanotech was invented on a Tuesday and on Thursday the war began. The invention of self-replicating and almost self-conscious cog oil brought about the end of the nation-state wiped out half the Earth's population and began a new era of history. But that was decades ago.</p><p></p><p>What would the cadets find in this dark installation? And what lessons would they learn - about their history ... and themselves?</p><p></p><p>Part of this novel appeared in Analog.</p>