The Gram ship _Queen Flavia_--she had been the one found unfinished at Glaspyth--came in three months after the _Rozinante_ started back; she must have been finished while Valkanhayn was still in hyperspace. She carried considerable cargo, some of it superfluous but all of it useful; everybody was investing in the Tanith Adventure now, and the money had to be spent for something. Better, she brought close to a thousand men and women; the leakage of brains and ability from the Sword-Worlds was turning into a flood. Among them was Basil Gorram. Trask remembered him as an insufferable young twerp, but he seemed to be a good shipyard man. He very frankly predicted that in a few years his father's yards at Wardshaven would be idle and all the Tanith ships would be Tanith-built. A junior partner of Lothar Ffayle's also came out, to establish a branch of the Bank of Wardshaven at Rivington. As soon as the _Queen Flavia_ had discharged her cargo and passengers, she took on five hundred ground-fighters from the _Lamia_, _Nemesis_ and _Space Scourge_ companies and spaced out on a raiding voyage. While she was gone, the second ship, the one Duke Angus had started at Wardshaven and King Angus had finished, the _Black Star_, came in. Trask was slightly incredulous at realizing that she had spaced out from Gram almost exactly two years after the _Nemesis_ had departed. He still hadn't any idea where Andray Dunnan was, or what he was doing, or how to find him. The news of the Gram base on Tanith spread slowly, first by the scheduled liners and tramp freighters that linked the Sword-Worlds, and then by trading ships and outbound Space Vikings to the Old Federation. Two years and six months after the _Nemesis_ had come out of hyperspace to find Boake Valkanhayn and Garvan Spasso on Tanith, the first independent Space Viking came in, to sell a cargo and get repairs. They bought his loot--he had been raiding some planet rather above the level of Khepera and below that of Amaterasu--and healed the wounds his ship had taken getting it. He had been dealing with the Everrard family on Hoth, and professed himself much more satisfied with the bargains he had gotten on Tanith and swore to return. He had never even heard of Andray Dunnan or the _Enterprise_. It was a Gilgamesher that brought the first news. He had first heard of Gilgameshers--the word was used indiscriminately for a native of or a ship from Gilgamesh--on Gram, from Harkaman and Karffard and Vann Larch and the others. Since coming to Tanith, he had heard about them from every Space Viking, never in complimentary and rarely in printable terms.