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Look more like cats than people, but they're people all right. If you doubt it, chew these facts over. "One, they learned our language in four weeks. When I say they, I mean a ten-man team of them. "Two, they brew a near-beer that's a lot nearer than the canned stuff we had aboard the Whale. "Three, they've a great sense of humor. Ran rather to silly practical jokes, but still.
If the walls of every part of the ship were perfectly transparent, they could absorb no energy at all, and they would still be plainly visible even more so than before! They must remain visible, but they could also force the enemy to remain visible. Each ten-man ship carried an old-fashioned cannon that was equipped to hurl cannisters carrying the luminous paint.
This is the age of concentration or specialization of energy. The problem of the day is to get ten-horse power out of an engine that shall occupy the space of a one-horse power engine, and no more. Just so society demands a ten-man power out of one individual. It crowns the man who knows one thing supremely, and can do it better than anybody else, even if it be only the art of raising turnips.
Tiny motes hovered even there, where the smallest of visible specks was a ten-man cruiser. And one of the biggest of the aircraft came gingerly up to the very inner edge of the lattice-work of fog and hung motionless, holding itself aloft by powerful helicopter screws. Men were working from a trailing stage scientists examining the barrier even hexynitrate would not break down. Thorn set to work.
As the custom was, he rode to the temple of Siva first with a ten-man guard; there, when the priests had finished droning age-old anthems to the echoing roof, when his brother, the Maharajah, also with a ten-man guard, had joined him, and the two had submitted to the sanctifying rites prescribed, eleven priests would walk with them in solemn mummery to the palace-entrance censer-swinging, chanting, blasphemously acting duty to their gods and state.
It was merely a little scout, a ten-man cruiser, that sent in the message of attack, and then, upon receiving headquarters' permission, went into action. Some of the tacticians had wanted to try to get the entire fleet into battle range for a surprise attack in power; but others felt that this could not possibly succeed.
When two of these asses met, there would be an anxious "Have you got your lantern?" and a gratified "Yes!" Four or five would sometimes climb into the belly of a ten-man lugger, with nothing but the thwarts above them for the cabin was usually locked or choose out some hollow of the links where the wind might whistle overhead.
He came back into view, followed by his little ten-man escort just as King neared the fort, and King timed his approach so as to meet him. The men of the escort were heavily burdened; he could see that from a distance. "Hello!" he said by the fort gate, cheerily, after he had saluted and the salute had been returned. "Oh, hello, King! Glad to see you. Heard you were coming, of course.
Upon each battleship there are five ten-man cruisers, and ten five-man scouts, and a hundred one-man scouts; in all, one hundred and sixteen thousand craft fitted with both air and water propellers. "At Thark lie the transports for the green warriors of Tars Tarkas, nine hundred large troopships, and with them their convoys.
Even to an intelligent man, the mask of stupidity can become a barrier to the outside world as well as a concealment from it. The Interstellar Ship Manila was a small, fast, ten-man blaster-boat, designed to get in to the thick of a battle quickly, strike hard, and get away.
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