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This maneuver would wipe them out. And I've got a notion that you'd come off without the loss of a single ship, plus, and it is a big plus, keeping the invaders more than fifty thousand miles away from their objective!" The captain turned to the teleceiver. "Rocket cruiser Polaris to control tower at Space Academy "
Will any Air Line of space navigation ever undertake to start a system of locomotion between the different members of the solar system? Have we any reasonable grounds for ever expecting to see trains running between planet and planet, as from Mars to Jupiter and, possibly afterwards, from star to star, as from Polaris to Sirius?
Edwards had taken every opportunity to get back at Tom, and now he had his best chance. From the beginning, the trial was argued bitterly. Though the issues were clear-cut illegal possession of the study spools, out on the quadrangle after hours, and fighting Edwards tried to accuse the Polaris unit of irrelevant infractions. But Alfie Higgins was his equal.
Tom sent the jet boat in a swooping dive, cut the acceleration, and brought the small ship smoothly inside the huge air lock in the side of the Polaris. "I'd better get right up on the control deck and start warming up the circuits, sir," said Tom. "Good idea, Tom," said Connel. "I'll try and pick up Manning and Astro." Tom left the officer huddling over the communicator in the jet boat.
But he held his temper in check, realizing he had to talk to the cadets first and find out what had happened. He would deal with Bush later. He stepped past Bush and opened the door. "Polaris unit stand to!" he yelled. Seated around the table, the three cadets stared at their captain in disbelief, then instinctively rose and snapped to attention.
"You Arabs can't gallop fast enough to keep yourselves warm that's what Kitty means," said Polaris, limping to show that his hock needed attention. "Are you playing back, Grey Dawn?" "'Looks like it," said Grey Dawn, as Lutyens swung himself up. Powell mounted The Rabbit, a plain bay country-bred much like Corks, but with mulish ears.
He had almost washed out the Polaris unit in the beginning of their Academy training. Major Lou Connel, Senior Line Officer of the Solar Guard, stepped forward when the cadets came to a stop and presented Tom, Roger, and Astro with the emblem of their achievement, a small gold pin in the shape of a rocket ship.
The two units forgot about the watch officers and the strong possibility of being caught and slugged it out in the darkness of the quadrangle. The fight seemed to be the climax of a long-standing feud. The Polaris crew had first come to grips with Richards and his unit mates when they were assigned to the old rocket cruiser Arcturus.
Roger Astro Major Connel come in, please! This is Tom on the Polaris!" As if they had been struck by a bolt of lightning, the five spacemen sat up and then raced to the jet boat. "Connel to Corbett!" roared the major. "Where are you? What happened?" "I haven't got time to explain now, sir," said Tom. "Loring and Mason escaped and forced me to take them to Tara.
But the seventeenth was the big day, every saucer this side of Polaris must have made a successful rendezvous over Farmington, because on that day most of the town's 3,600 citizens saw the mass fly-by. The first reports were made at 10:15A.M.; then for an hour the air was full of flying saucers. Estimates of the number varied from a conservative 500 to "thousands."
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