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You bring the soldier under your control and force him to discharge his musket through a crack in the ambulance's side planking. Bloodhound suddenly tenses, controlled by the Renegade Lord and, drawing his blaster, takes aim at you. You are about to dive onto the ground when the musket goes off and Bloodhound regains control of himself. You run up to the ambulance, but before you arrive the front explodes and a flyer accelerates out of it. Six beings like giant ants, their red, compound eyes glaring at you balefully, are clinging on inside the honeycomb-like seats. One of them appears to have been killed by a musket ball. You realise it is the Hivers, Lord Creche 82282. The Creche skim low through the smoke of the battlefield, almost faster than the eye can see, making a sonic boom like the explosion of a powder magazine, the ammunition stores for the cannon. As they go you catch the thought that they are heading for the planet Hel. Do you:

Try to control Napoleon's mind and use him to call off the attack of the Imperial Guard? Turn to 37
Return to Falcon's Wing and chase the Creche to the planet Hel? Turn to 84