Free Solbidyum Wars Saga 6: Defeat of the Tottalax by Dale C. Musser Page A

Do you really want the Brotherhood prisoners of war on any of the Federation planets?  Do you think it will be all right to just set them free, and everything will be safe?  We were lucky today.  No one was killed, and everyone will heal.  However, just as easily one of the troopers, or one of you senators could have been hit in the head or heart by one of the shots once the Brotherhood got hold of a gun.  There would have been no coming back from that.  This facility is at one of the most secure places throughout the universe and while no place is ever truly escape-proof, this one is about as close as you can get to one.  As you can see, none of the prisoners here are being abused by the Federation; some of them manage to mistreat each other and we do our best to prevent that if we can.  I told you before that if relatives of the prisoners wish to come and see their relatives they may.  If they do, it will not be as it was for you.  They will meet in small rooms, with guards and separated by shielded transparent panels, but they can come if they wish.”
    “Admiral,” one of the women senators stood and addressed me, “what about vid communication, so they can talk without having to come here?  That would be safer, wouldn’t it?”
    “It might be safer for the citizens wanting to talk to a relative, but it would not be safer for the Federation.  Right now, there is no communication transmission equipment on this base at all.  None!  All communications are carried in person through a gate and then transmitted.  We do that so no communication equipment can fall into the hands of the Brotherhood prisoners of war, who might use it to make a signaling device that could alert the Brotherhood to this location.  That’s how secret the location of this base is and how secure we have made it.  Even the guards working on this base have no idea where in the universe it is.  They come and go through a single, heavily guarded Cantolla Gate.  Gates that normally are closed at the Federation end most of the time, so if the prisoners here ever should break free, they won’t be able to get through the gate.
    “There are no ships here, none ever visit.  Should a prisoner break out of here to the outside, they would die instantly because the environment outside is unsuitable for life of any kind.  The only way in or out is through the Cantolla Gate.  All prisoners, and any supplies arriving here, come through a gate.  You will find no records for the construction of this base, no records for goods being flown here on ships, no workers brought here by ship to build this place.  On paper, this place doesn’t exist and as long as this war goes on we must, for the safety of our citizens, keep the location of this place secret and as secure as possible.  Now, if there are no more questions, we have been here almost seven hours.  If you wish, we all may eat here in the dining room with the non-Brotherhood combatants, or we can return to Megelleon now and you can dine there.  We’ll take a vote; those in favor of eating here, please raise your hand.”  I looked around the room and saw no hands.  “I expected as much,” I said.  “Now let's get back to Megelleon, shall we?”
    The entire trip to the lunar prison colony had been vid recorded using cameras situated around the prison.  Admiral Regeny made sure the vid was properly edited and distributed to the evening news services, everything, including Senator Sipollie’s questions and accusations right up to the end when he said, “ Are you kidding me?  Those animals need to be killed, they’re vermin trash .”  Most of the other conversations I had with the senators in that meeting were edited out, but Regeny felt that seeing Sipollie’s change in attitude after the events in the prison would serve the Federation well regarding the status of prisoners we were taking.
    I was quite tired by the time I reached the NEW ORLEANS , it was late in the day,