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This left me approximately one hundred and eighty-five tarn ships, and the large numbers, fourteen hundred, of round ships. - (Raiders of Gor, Chapter 17, Sentence #51)

I had also arranged signals whereby my ships, those of my task forces and others, might, if the pairs became separated, switch partners, thus retaining the possibility of pair-attacks on single ships even if the members of the original pairs should become separated. The first two waves of my attack consisted, thus, of fifty task forces of sixteen tarn ships apiece and, following each of the task forces, at an interval of half an Ahn, another pair of tarn ships. This meant the first wave consisted of eight hundred ships, and the second of one hundred. This left me approximately one hundred and eighty-five tarn ships, and the large numbers, fourteen hundred, of round ships. I signaled that the sixteen tarn ships with me should proceed. They pulled away, acknowledging with flags my message. The Dorna dropped back. - (Raiders of Gor)