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Updated: May 15, 2025
"'Scuse it, please I'll be good," and the careful checking and testing of every vital part of the space-suits went on. Satisfied at last that the armor was spaceworthy, Stevens picked up the coils of drag-line, built of a non-metallic fiber which could retain its flexibility and strength in the bitter cold of outer space, and led the girl into the air-lock. "Heavens, Steve!
Then in furious haste the two officers set to work, again to make their small craft sound and spaceworthy. Worm, Submarine, and Freedom Since both Costigan and Bradley had often watched their captors at work during the long voyage from the Solar System to Nevia, they were quite familiar with the machine tools of the amphibians.
A fully equipped engineer-ship from Marduk could patch her hull and replace her Dillinghams and her Abbot lift-and-drive engines and make her temporarily spaceworthy, until she could be gotten to a shipyard. They concentrated on repairing the Nemesis, and in another two weeks she was ready for the voyage. The six hundred hour trip to Marduk passed pleasantly enough.
And the other jobs would take at least another. Add a month for errors in judgment, lack of materials, and mistakes and another for unavoidable delays it would be at least six months before the Egg would be spaceworthy. Six months. Not too long if everything went well, but far too long if there were any mistakes. He would have to be careful, yet he must not give the impression of being careful.
After all, Tanith would be a feudal lordship, and the three ships together a fleet. Admiral Harkaman's first act of authority was to order a general inspection of fleet units. He wasn't shocked by the condition of the two ships, but that was only because he had expected much worse. They were spaceworthy; after all, they had gotten here from Hoth under their own power.
Piece by piece that wreckage was brought together and held in place by the Titanian tractors; and slowly but steadily, under Stevens' terrific welding projector, the stubborn steel flowed together, once more to become a seamless, spaceworthy structure. And Nadia, the electrician, followed close behind the welder.
Haney was better off than Joe, but the Chief was harder hit. Mike's small body had taken the strain best of all, and he would use the fact later in shrill argument that midgets were designed by nature to be the explorers of space for their bulkier and less spaceworthy kindred. The ending of the steady, punishing drag was infinitely good, but the new sensation was hardly pleasant.
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