Michael Hudis lazily eyed his two guests. In a small, private hotel overlooking the harbor, three people discussed their common grievances. In the leading city of the planet, San Marino, nestled beside the Daskin Sea, there gathered diplomats, trade delegations, religious groups, doctors of the League Health Organization, academics, researchers of every interest and variety…and conspirators. All of the organizations necessary to maintain normal relations among the far-flung worlds kept an office on Darwin. It had craggy mountains that reached to the heavens, thousands of miles of pristine beaches, lush forests, a stable climate, moderate temperatures and no dangerous life forms of any kind.ĭarwin had become the headquarters of the League of Human Worlds.

Three people sat in a room overlooking the Daskin Sea on Darwin, undeniably the most beautiful planet in the inhabited universe. The opening moves of the Dominion War took place two years before the first shot was fired, over a glass of vintage Merlot.

Alarm of War by Kennedy Hudner