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In the furious beam of the projector of the dead pirate they were riven into nothingness, and the two officers sped on to the room which Costigan had located from afar. The three suits of Triplanetary space armor had been sealed into a cabinet whose doors Costigan literally blew off with a blast of force, rather than consume time in tracing the power leads. "I feel like something now!"
Then, as she sat upon a bench, recovering her strength, he flipped on the lifeboat's visiphone projector and shot its invisible beam up into the control room, where he saw space-armored figures furiously busy at the panels. "Dirty work at the cross-roads!" he blazed to his captain, man to man formality disregarded, as it so often was in the Triplanetary service.
Darting out around the edge of the cone at a stupendous acceleration, they attacked its flanks and the engagement became general. But now, since enough beams were kept upon each ship of the enemy so that invisibility could not be restored, each Triplanetary war vessel could attack with full efficiency.
The cloud had soon dissolved, and from the place where the planes had been there had floated or crashed down a litter of non-ferrous wreckage. And now the cone of space-ships from the Buffalo base of Triplanetary was approaching Pittsburgh, hurling itself toward the Nevian plunderer and toward known, gruesome and hopeless defeat. "Stop them, Hinkle!" Samms cried. "It's sheer slaughter!
"I managed to get quite a lot of dope on that paralyzing ray and some of their other stuff, and we can install the necessary equipment in our suits easily enough." They removed their armor, and Costigan explained in detail the changes which must be made in the Triplanetary field generators.
Out of the vacuum of space a fish-shaped vessel of the void the vessel that was shortly to attack so boldly both the massed fleet of Triplanetary and Roger's planetoid plunged into the rarefied outer atmosphere, and crimson beams of force tore shriekingly the thin air as it braked its terrific speed.
He was wrong. The foremost globes were allowed actually to enter the mouth of that conical trap before an offensive move was made. Then the vice-admiral in command of the fleet touched a button, and simultaneously every generator in every Triplanetary vessel burst into furious activity.
And through the hurricane there shot out the deadliest material weapons of Triplanetary. Torpedoes non-ferrous, ultra-screened, beam-dirigible torpedoes charged with the most effective forms of material destruction known to man.
We may or may not be able to dodge it, but we need all the help you can give us. Samms Rodebush Cleveland anybody of Triplanetary...." Endlessly the faint, faint voice went on, but Rodebush and Cleveland were no longer listening.
"The robots will continue to function under their automatic controls during the short time it will require to abate this nuisance." "One moment!" A strange voice roared from the speakers. "Consider yourselves under arrest, by order of the Triplanetary Council! Surrender and you shall receive impartial hearing; fight us and you shall never come to trial.
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