<D>Even now, the Hygeia Massacre remains a perfect example of how to bungle a negotiation. If your negotiating partner is unpredictable, you have to maintain your argument with strong military support, or at least the appearance of strong military support. If your negotiating partner lays seventeen billion Nataka bucks worth of incendiary collateral damage on your military units, you can probably consider your negotiation a failure.<p>- Nataka Negotiator's training manual -</D>
