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It was bigger than the lock he'd used on the Lindner, and different in detail, but it served the same function and had been designed by humanoids, so it couldn't be too different. When the tractor beam released him and the lock's outer door closed, radiant heaters came on. His suit indicators showed rapidly-increasing air pressure.
The great vessel bored through the fleet with cannons spitting out hell. If countershots were fired, they had no effect. "Sugfarth!" the aide screamed in his ears. "A ship from Sugfarth!" Var remembered the pictures he had seen, and they matched, though none had suggested such a size. It was impossible. The race of Sugfarth were aliens warriors who had fought humanoids as few races had done.
He looked at his reflection in the dresser mirror, and his reflection looked worriedly back. "This whole thing has an air of plausible unreality: the advertisement, the contract, this impossible island that raises humanoids as part of the livestock." He shrugged and his mirrored image shrugged back. "But it's real, all right. No dream could possibly be this detailed.
Things weren't going at all as he'd expected in the Outer Worlds, if the account were true; and usually, such battle reports weren't altered much. The aliens had developed a union of their own if anything, a stronger one than the humanoids had. Apparently they'd chased the Federation ships into some kind of a trap. Losses on both sides were huge.
Until you face up to your responsibilities you are merely a member of a dominant race, not a civilized one." Kennon's reply caught in his throat. His eyes widened as he looked at her, and what he was about to say remained unspoken. "Out of the mouths of humanoids " he muttered oddly. "What does that mean?" Copper asked. "Forget it," Kennon said wildly. "Leave me alone. Go put on some clothes.
Betans were different and from birth they were taught to accept the difference and to live with it. Mixing of Betan stock with other human species, while not actually forbidden, was so encircled with conditioning that it was a rare Betan indeed who would risk self-opprobrium and the contempt of his fellows to mate with an outsider. And as for humanoids Kennon shuddered.
Send them away." Douglas sulkily thrust out his lower lip. "You can't talk to me like that, Cousin Alex," he began. "I'm just a " "You head me, Douglas. Out!" Alexander's voice didn't rise but it cut like a whip. "Oh, very well," Douglas said. "I can't fight you yet." He turned to the humanoids. "You heard the Boss-man. Go home." The two nodded in unison and departed quickly.
"You're the new doctor?" the Lani asked. "Thank goodness you've come! I'll get the staff. I'll be back in a moment." She stepped quickly over to the switchboard beside the door and punched five buttons. Four more humanoids came into the room, followed a little later by a fifth. "Where's the emergency?" one asked. "He is it's our new doctor." "More females," Kennon muttered to himself.
The evidence points to the origin and unity of languages in the days of Noah, and proves the great antiquity of man an impossibility and his evolution a pitiful absurdity. The unity of ancient religions proves the creation of man who received a divine revelation. According to evolution, all religions were evolved or invented by humanoids.
Then he swore as he saw it was part of an article on the progress of some alien world known as Sugfarth by the article, a world of former warriors, once dedicated to the complete elimination of humanoids! He saw Flannery coming along the deck at that moment, and he picked up the magazine, heading for his cabin. He'd ignored previous summons on the thin excuse of not feeling well.
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