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Slowly Jack and Tiger got used to the peculiarities of popping in and out of hyperspace. It was said that immunity to star-drive sickness was hard to acquire, but lasted a lifetime, and would never again bother them once it was achieved. Bit by bit the Earthmen crept out of their shells, to find the ship in order and a busy Dal Timgar relieved and happy to have them aboard again.
He'll probably bring half his army back, leave the other half in Stolgoland, and lose both. Suppose we drop in, in about three or four years, just out of curiosity. If we make twenty per cent of what we did this time, the trip would pay for itself." After they went into hyperspace and had the ship secured, the parties lasted three Galactic standard days, and nobody was at all sober.
And again, well out beyond the orbit of the moon, just before the starship's mighty Chaytor engines hurled her out of space as we know it into that unknowable something that is hyperspace, he poised a finger. But Immergence, too, was normal; all the green lights except one went out, needles dropped to zero, both phones went dead, all signals stopped.
And we don't like either one or the other, but we fool ourselves into liking them. When we're in space we can't wait to get to the Enclave, and once we're down here we can't wait to get back. Some life." "Got any suggestions? Some way of fixing things up for us without queering interstellar commerce?" "Yes," Alan snapped. "I do have a suggestion. Hyperspace drive!" Quantrell laughed harshly.
Of course, we always talk to them by screen as soon as they come out of hyperspace and into radio range, and get the passenger list, and a speed-recording of any news they are carrying, from the latest native uprising on Thor to the latest political scandal on Venus.
In the meantime, the shipyard had been laid out and was taking shape. The Gram ship Queen Flavia she had been the one found unfinished at Glaspyth came in three months after the Rozinante started back; she must have been finished while Valkanhayn was still in hyperspace.
Went out like a snuffed candle, soon as he turned on his drive. Okay, go ahead and build one if you can. But don't bother booking passage for me." "You mean you'd stay behind if I built a hyperspace ship?" "Sure I would." There was no hesitation in Rat's voice. "I like this particular space-time continuum very much.
He had awakened Wade and told him what had happened, and they were on their way to wake up Fuller, when suddenly the air of the ship crackled around them! The space was changing! They were coming out of hyperspace! In amazement, Morey and Wade looked at each other. They knew that Arcot was still floating helplessly in the middle of the room, but "Hold on, you brainless apes!
More and more, as he understood the ship, he was amazed at the courage of the ancients who had blithely leaped into hyperspace in these flying coffins with no more motivation than to see what was beyond the nearest star. And in ships more primitive than this men had swept through the star systems nearest Earth in the outward expansion of the First Millennium. He sighed.
"I doubt we can get her off-planet again, let alone into hyperspace." "Well, we'll get you and your crew to Marduk in the Nemesis, then." They were both speaking loudly, above the clank, and clatter of machinery below. "I hope you didn't think I'd leave you stranded here." "I don't know how either of us will be received. Space Vikings haven't been exactly popular on Marduk, lately.
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