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To them life on a planet like Earth was as life to a terrestrian on a planetoid such as Ceres, Juno or Eros would have seemed. Even on Thettsost, the satellite planet of Thett, life was strange, and they used lux roofs over their cities, though their weight there was four tons!
Many of the terrestrian, or better, Solarian ships, were equipped with space distortion apparatus, now, and had some measure of safety in that the attractive rays of the Thessians could not be so concentrated on them. In numbers was safety; Arcot had been endangered because he was practically alone at the time they attacked. But it was obvious that the Solarian fleet was losing.
The Venerians have diseases, and so do we, of course; but there are things in the blood of Venerians that are absolutely deadly to any Terrestrian organism. We have a similar deadly effect on Venerian germs. It isn't immunity it's simply that our respective constitutions are so different that we don't need immunity.
Zezdon Afthen raised his dark eyes to the terrestrian with a look in their depths that made Wade involuntarily resolve that Thet and all Thessians should be promptly consigned to that limbo of forgotten things where they belonged. Wade sat staring moodily at the screen for some time, while Zezdon Afthen, sunk in his own reveries, continued.
"I wish Terrestrian orators spoke like that," remarked Morey as they returned to the ship. "He said all there was to say, but he didn't run miles of speech doing it. He was a very forceful speaker, too!" "People who speak briefly and to the point generally are," Arcot said. It was nearly noon that day before the theoretical discussion had been reduced to practical terms.
"I have been thinking of naming it too I guess we all have but I was thinking of Santa Maria the first ship to discover the New World." "I was thinking more of its home," said Wade. "How about calling it Terrestrian?" "Well it's your turn, Fuller you designed it. What do you suggest for your masterpiece?" asked Arcot. "I was thinking also of its home the home it will never leave.
Their observations were completed without further mishap, and they set out for their distant home, their number depleted by forty-one ships, for nineteen had fallen on Venus. The Terrestrian and Venerian governments had met in conference, a grim, businesslike discussion with few wasted words. Obviously, this was to be a war of science, a war on a scale never before known on either world.
To open one was to destroy it, but calculations made from readings of their instruments showed that they were more efficient, and could readily carry nearly half again the load that the best terrestrian tubes could sustain. This meant the enemy could send heavier rays and heavier ray screens.
They could also see that these dividing ridges were actually inaccessible and completely unsurmountable, at least by ordinary terrestrian efforts.
But the Nansalian ships were all equipped with the enormously rapid space distortion system of travel, of course, and were a shock troop in the patrol. The Terrestrian and Venerian patrols were not so equipped in full. "And Arcot, from what I have learned from your father, it seems that I can be of real assistance," finished Torlos. "But now, I think, I should know what the enemy has done.
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