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Give me a three-second call!" snapped from the pilot room of the Sliver. "Ready to cut!" the pilot of the Chicago replied. "Seconds! Three! Two! One! At the last word the power of both vessels was instantly cut off and everything in them became weightless. In the tiny airlock of the slender craft crouched a space-line man with coiled cable in readiness, but he was not needed.
The space-line men the engineers of weightless combat led the van, protected by the projectors of their fellows. Theirs the task to set up ways of rope, along which the others could advance.
Some were encased in space-suits, and it was to these that the rescuers turned first space-hardened veterans though the men of the Chicago were, they did not care even to look at the others. Strangely enough, however, not one of the floating figures spoke or moved, and space-line men were hurriedly sent out to investigate. "All dead." Quickly the dread report came back. "Been dead a long time.
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