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++Welcome to IMTel*++

(*integrated machine intelligence)

By integrating yourself with the machine you will be the first to find out everything there is to know about Beyond the Gates of Antares by Rick Priestley.

SIGHTED: GHAR BATTLE SQUAD

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The Ghar are twisted, spiteful and pitiless creatures driven by an unquenchable hatred of all panhumans. They view other kinds of human as vermin that it is their job to eradicate...

Ghar Technology

Ghar technology is profoundly dangerous not just to their enemies but to the Ghar themselves. This danger is something that would never be acceptable with the advanced IMTel society of the PanHuman Concord or even the more wholly human civilisations of the Determinate.

The pollutants and high levels of radiation emitted by Ghar technology are bad enough, but nothing compared to the horrors unleashed by their quantum gravity based weapons and force fields. The consequences include micro-fragmentation of the fabric of space-time and occasional large-scale disruption to the cohesion of the local universe. These things only affect the Ghar to a minor degree because their machines are so primitive, but wreak havoc with advanced nano-based technologies.

This is one reason why worlds destroyed by the Ghar remain ruinous. They are so highly contaminated by quantum gravity fall out it is impossible for an advanced nano-based society to resettle or even occupy them.