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Updated: May 7, 2025
" and so we landed here, sir," Rip concluded his report in the matter-of-fact tone he might have used in describing a perfectly ordinary voyage, say between Terraport and Luna City, a run of no incident and dull cargo carrying. The crew of the Solar Queen, save for Tau, were assembled in a room somewhere in the vastness of Patrol Headquarters.
"They won't expect a ship to come in on that vector, steering away from the ports. Why should they? As far as I know it's never been tried since Terraport was laid out. It'll be tricky " And he himself would have to bear most of the responsibility for it. "But I believe that it can be done. And we can't just roam around out here.
News from Terraport was broadcast on every channel every hour of the day and night and not a single viewer could miss their appeal. But first there was Hovan to be consulted. Would he be willing to back them with his professional knowledge and assurance? Or would their high-handed method of recruiting his services operate against them now? They decided to let Rip ask such questions of the Medic.
"The trouble with you," he addressed them all, "is that you think of earth only in terms of Terraport " "Well, there is the Patrol field at Stella," Weeks agreed doubtfully. "But we'd be right in the middle of trouble there " "Did we have a regular port on Sargol on Limbo on fifty others I can name out of our log?" Rip wanted to know. Ali voiced a new objection.
Dane noticed that after that discouraging statement Rip made straight for Jellico's record tapes and routed out the one which dealt with Terraport and the landing instructions for that metropolis of the star ships. To land unbidden there would certainly bring them publicity and to get the Video broadcast and tell their story would grant them not only world wide, but system wide hearing.
"Well, if we set down in the right spot," Rip replied, "they can't flame us out without blasting the larger part of Terraport field with us. And I don't think they are going to do that in a hurry." Dane hoped Shannon was correct in that belief.
An ant hill into which some idle investigator had thrust a stick and given it a turn or two was nothing compared with Terraport after the unorthodox arrival of the Solar Queen. "Patrol mobile coming in on southeast vector," Ali announced calmly. "Looks like she mounts a portable flamer on her nose " "So."
Ringed now about the Queen were the buildings of Terraport. Yes, any attempt to attack the ship would endanger too much of the permanent structure of the field itself. Rip had brought them down not on the rocket scarred outer landing space but on the concrete apron between the Assignment Center and the control tower a smooth strip usually sacred to the parking of officials' ground scooters.
Since I started to ride rockets I've been told I wasn't going to get away with this or that. Why not be more original? Use what is between those outsize ears of yours. We fought our way in here we landed at Terraport against orders we're Patrol Posted. Do you think that one man, one lone man, is going to keep us now from doing what we came to do? And don't look around for any reinforcements.
"We're going to break contract " he said aloud and that shook the other two, knocked some of their assurance out of them. "How about that?" Rip asked Ali. The acting-engineer nodded. "We have fuel enough to lift from here and maybe set down at Terraport if we take it careful and cut vectors.
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