"Do you want to know?" Cable asked as they passed two sentries and carried on into the heart of the camp.

There were tents and cabins everywhere and fighters of both sexes bustling around, cooking, cleaning their guns and checking computers. To their left a legion of artificial machine men disappeared suddenly as they were teleported off to another site with orders, while to their right, there was an open shower where seven or eight soldiers, of both sexes, were washing themselves without any apparent shame or embarrassment at being entirely visible.

Cable's eyes strayed neither left nor right, he just walked on.