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Updated: May 20, 2025
The thunderous explosion was followed immediately by the insistent whine of bugles and the clanging of alarm-bells, calling the crew to battle-stations. And the crew went quietly, without the slightest disorder. Down in the bunkers, four decks below, was an officer, with a party of seamen, setting things to rights after the coaling.
Ato ordered "Battle-Stations" and sirens sounded all over the ship. But the circling host made no offer to attack. Odin turned the receiver up to its highest point, and speaking brokenly in the language of the Brons a voice came through. "Men of the strange ship. Men of the strange ship " "Yes," Odin answered. "Good. You hear me. We are those who have been driven out of the city.
"Let's go," he said. "Our host is calling up his troops; I think the guests ought to find battle-stations, too." The gaily-dressed crowd formed a semicircle facing the landing-stage escalators; everybody was staring in embarrassed curiosity, those behind craning over the shoulders of those in front. The ladies had drawn up their shawls in frigid formality; many had even covered their heads.
Let's be sane about this. "We have to assume he is. If we do, and he isn't it's a disappointment. If we don't, and he is, it's a disaster." Others, it seemed, thought the same way. The battle-stations board was a solid blaze of red light for full combat readiness. "All right," Kirbey said. "Jumping." Then he twisted the red handle to the right and shoved it in viciously.
They were always welcomed by the locals for what they could do and teach. "No, we weren't there long enough for that. Only three hundred and fifty hours. This we're getting is outside stuff; somebody's there beside the locals." Dunnan. He looked again at the battle-stations board; it was still uniformly red-lighted. Everything was on full combat ready.
Just as they broke up, they heard a muffled metallic sound from the nearest compartment grill. It was the clang-clang-clang of the orbit-ship's general alarm. Crewmen stopped with food halfway to their mouths, jerked away from tables. Orders buzzed along a dozen wires, and section chiefs began reporting their battle-stations alert and ready.
They had hardly settled to the planet's surface before Grim Hagen trained his guns upon them and began to fire. Flame enveloped them. Bombs of acid and steel shook The Nebula. The battle-stations were already manned, and Ato gave orders to return fire. For nearly an hour, the holocaust continued. Both ships rocked upon their steady foundations.
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