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Updated: May 21, 2025
Strength of the underground, possible allies, weaknesses of Candar.... Thane was beginning to see the picture, and the tremendous obstacles to be overcome, when a buzzer sounded and a red light over the door blinked DANGER ... DANGER ... DANGER.... Pyuf ran over to a cabinet on the wall by the fire. Thane saw there were several dials and a visiscreen.
Astrid looked up with a question on her lips but he went on before she could voice it. "Pyuf mentioned that we have some support among the Onzarian priestesshood. Just what do we have?" "There's been general dissatisfaction with Candar all through the religion," she said. Her voice was low, carefully controlled, with an undercurrent of stress.
The power factors were such that an entirely new principle of operation was needed. We have found it in the so-called gold catalyst principle, and we now have a practical, economical second-stage drive." Thane frowned. "But that would seem to make Onzar less important. Why do we need to worry about them now?" Reine was about to answer but the door opened and Pyuf was there.
"How goes it, duellist?" "It was a great fight," Thane said, "until you decided to tear up the rules. You forgot to tell me that you included 'kidnapper' in your list of trades." Reine smiled. "That's just one of many that Pyuf forgot to mention. Forger, propagandist, and political theorist might also have been added." He turned to Pyuf. "I've about covered the technology.
There was an inset ring of some cupra-alloy at each end of the duelling court, about a meter in diameter. Thane reached his end, watched his opponent, and waited for Pyuf's signal. Pyuf slowly poured another drink. As he raised it with his right hand, his left arm went up over his head. He swallowed the drink, and the left arm came down. The Third Officer came on in all-out attack.
So do the people who are presumably running things in the Allied Systems." Thane stood up. He had been off at the perimeter of the struggle, working in obscure but possibly important systems for the past three years. He hadn't been in a position to see all the factors in the struggle that was shaping up. But now at a glance he saw that Pyuf was probably right.
Of course, we'd have to abandon this place once we did use it. Candar's detectors would pick it up right away." The visiscreen came into focus and Pyuf turned the perimeter dial till it lined up with the degree mark on the disturbance indicator. Nine figures appeared, advancing toward the house. Three were short and squat not over a meter and a half in height.
"You'll come with me, please." No longer the half drunk duelling attendant, Pyuf was now quite sober and quite serious. Thane went. There were questions to be answered. He had somehow expected a long corridor with many doors. Instead, he walked directly into a brightly lighted room, filled with a great deal of equipment.
With two tracers, separated on a baseline of a few million kilometers, we can plot position closely. Three tracers will pin-point them, and for a trip across the center of the Galaxy, we will know when and where they'll have to surface." "That fits all right," Thane said, "but why tie in Onzar? Why not let the Allied Systems have the tracer?" Pyuf shrugged impatiently.
On the other hand, it was quite possible that Astrid was behind it. He remembered how she seemed to have been talking to the Third just before the challenge. But for what motive? Thane smiled to himself. The speculation was interesting, but a little barren till more data turned up. It was not long in coming. Thane had begun to explore the room carefully when a door opened. It was Pyuf, armed.
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