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Updated: June 3, 2025
Gently removing the work piece from its mounting, he turned to the open double bulkhead that served as an air lock in emergencies and that separated his shop from the physics lab beyond, where Dr. Y. Chi Tung, popularly known as Ishie, was busy over a haywire rig, Chief Engineer Mike Blackhawk and Tombu beside him. Reverently, Dr. Chi took the part from Paul's hands.
But perhaps the combination was not so strange, for Tombu, also, was of the aristocracy an aristocracy that could perhaps be measured in terms of years extending far behind the comparable times for any European aristocracy.
The return to the rim was slower than had been the evacuation but it was complete within twenty minutes of the decision to return the satellite to normal. In the machine shop, Paul and Tombu, with Ishie and Mike, were gathering the materials they'd need for the odd construction Paul singing to himself as he worked.
Before entering the machine shop, Mike spotted the Security man through the open bulkhead just standing there while Paul and Tombu grimly worked on; and Millie sat idle, watching. Mike entered the machine shop casually, as though intent on business, brushed past the Security man, and stepped over to the tape-controlled, laser-activated milling machine as though to inspect its progress.
Tombu was Swahili, a minor king of a minor country which had never been recognized by the white man when he invaded Africa and set up his vast protectorates that took no account of the peoples and their tribal traditions; protectorates that lumped together many hundreds of individual nations and tribes into something the white man looking at maps could label "Congo."
Turning to Tombu he handed him the Security man's radio. "See if you can rig this," he said, "to broadcast everything they say over the general intercom channel. It's about time we let people know what's happening." It took Tombu only minutes to hook in the radio. As he turned it on, Elbertson's voice came over the loud-speaker system. A roll call of Security men was apparently being completed.
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