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Updated: June 29, 2025
Had it been cold, every little feather would have lain down close against its neighbors, forming an admirable, wind-proof and cold-proof blanket. Nature, on Sthor, had original ideas of arrangement too. Sthorians possessed two eyes one directly above the other, in the center of their faces. The face was so long, and narrow, it resembled a blunt hatchet, with the two eyes on the edge.
It's almost as big as Antares, and it won't hold still. Now that would make a bad planetary system." "It would!" Kendall laughed. But as we know he laughed too soon, and he shouldn't have used the conditional. He should have said, "It does!" Gresth Gkae, Commander of Expeditionary Force 93, of the Planet Sthor, was returning homeward with joyful mind. In the lock of his great ship, lay the T-247.
"Grih is in a descendant stage," said the navigation officer presently. "Sthor will be cold when we arrive." "It will warm quickly enough with our news!" Gresth laughed. "A system a delightful system discovered. A system of many close-grouped planets. Why think from one side of that system to the other is less of a distance than from Ansthat, our first planet's orbit, to Insthor's orbit!
One hundred thousand miles apart, the twin worlds Sthor and Asthor rotated about their common center of gravity, eternally facing each other. Ten million miles from their common center of gravity, Teelan rotated in a vast orbit. Sthor and Asthor were capped at each pole now by gigantic white icecaps. Mira was sulking, and as a consequence the planets were freezing.
The interstellar liner "Mirasol" settled gently to Sthor, having circled wide of Asthor, and from her hold a cargo of the heavy Jovian elements was discharged, while a mixed stream of Solarians and Mirans came from her passenger quarters. A delegation of Mirans met the new Ambassador from Sol, Commander McLaurin, and conducted him joyfully to the Central Government Group.
Directly ahead, Sthor loomed even greater. Tiny Teelan, the thousand-mile diameter moon of the Insthor system shone dull red in the reflected light of gigantic Mira. Mira herself was gigantic, red and menacing across eight and a quarter billions of miles of space.
As the words came through on a thousand sets, all the little ships began to whirl, dance and break out into glowing, sparkling lights. On Sthor and Asthor even commotions began to be visible. A new planetary system had been found They could move! Their overflowing populations could be spread out! The whole Insthor system went mad with delight as the great Expeditionary Ship settled downward.
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