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Quorum of Salt
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Cal looked for the machine making the copies. In the center of the room stood a humming box with one big lever marked PURGE SIMULATED VOTERS. Pull it, and the fake quorum would vanish. But a warning blinked: REMOVING VOTERS MAY LEAVE NO ONE TO STEER THE SHIP.
Cal pulled the lever. The wall of faces went dark all at once. The killing vote vanished — but so did the ship's autopilot. Alarms wailed as the floor tilted. Cal grabbed the controls he'd never been trained on and held the ship steady. The founder was safe. The ship was his to fly now, and at least it was honest.
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