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They were more recent, dating from Poictesme's second brief and hectic prosperity, when the Terran Federation's Third Fleet-Army Force had occupied the Gartner Trisystem during the System States War. Millions of troops had been stationed on or routed through Poictesme; tens of thousands of spacecraft had been based on the Trisystem; the mines and factories had reopened for war production.
But it was actually 06 hours 35 minutes ship time before the two spacecraft sighted each other more than two hours after they plunged toward a rendezvous. The Plumie ship was a bright golden dot, at first. It decelerated swiftly. In minutes it was a rounded, end-on disk. Then it swerved lightly and presented an elliptical broadside to the Niccola. The Niccola was in full deceleration too, by then.
The small spacecraft settled at decreasing speed. Chessman said, "The central square? It seems to be their market, by the number of people." "I suppose so," Plekhanov grunted. "Right there before the largest pyramid. We'll remain inside the craft for the rest of today and tonight." Natt Roberts, who had put away his camera, said, "But why? It's crowded in here."
Now, as far as air and water go, we can use the standard spacecraft apparatus, Fuller, so you can figure that in any way you want to." "We'll need a lab, too," Wade put in. "And a machine shop with plenty of spare parts everything we can possibly think of. Remember, we may want to build some things out in space." "Right. And I wonder " Arcot looked thoughtful.
So a public statement that was made in 1952 still holds true: "The possibility of the existence of interplanetary craft has never been denied by the Air Force, but UFO reports offer absolutely no authentic evidence that such interplanetary spacecraft do exist." But with the UFO, what is lacking in proof is always made up for in opinions.
These extra ships had to be landed on their emergency rockets, and, of course, couldn't take off again, but they always vanished quickly just the same. And the people of Zan, on which Hoddan had been born, always affected innocent indignation when embattled other spacecraft came and furiously demanded that they be produced.
Not long later, a badly battered, blackened, scuffed old spacecraft came rolling up on rocket-impulse and stopped with a billowing of rocket fumes. Hoddan threw a switch and used the landing grid field he'd used on Walden in another fashion. The ships came together with fine precision, lifeboat-tube to lifeboat-tube. He heard his grandfather swear in amazement.
The little ship surged momentarily toward the racing monsters. And then The rockets which were supposed to let the ship down to Earth flew free flung themselves unburdened at the rockets which came with deadly intent to the meeting of the two Earth spacecraft. The landing-rockets plunged down at forty gravities or better.
It had the advantage that it could be used inside a gravity field, where a Lawlor drive could not. It had the other advantage that commercial spacecraft could not mount such gadgets for defense, because the insurance companies objected to meddling with Lawlor drive installations.
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