Science-fiction novel
! PROPERTY OF LORD WINTER!
First published AND WITHOUT
ABBREVIATIONS. TO BE CONTINUED ...
CONTINUED. HOME ROOM 9-A
CHAPTER 5-7.
V.
Boat slowly circled the space station and gradually began
to gain speed. Prescott looked at the panoramic screen. The
sight was amazing. Three giant ball, each the size of a large
asteroid, lined up on the outgoing line of station. They shone
dimly in the shadow of the planet, but it was full of strange,
too white light. The balls seemed unreal because of their size
and that light. At the equator of the balls held a narrow black
stripe. Prescott looked at the screen back species and compare
the sizes of the passing of the ball and the space station. If
big patrol cruiser looked point against the station, the ball
was only about three times smaller than her. Middle ball is
stopped fit on a giant panoramic screen, the main form. Boat
slowly started to drop speed. Before my eyes was already just a
solid shiny silver surface. Suddenly, a small portion of the
surface is slowly separated from the main and disappeared
inside, forming the entrance to the gaping blackness of the
tunnel. Boat stopped and began to slowly turn back to
entrance of the tunnel. Then she jerked slightly, and she came
to the magnetic field of a dock. It began slowly introvert. On
the Home removed a rectangular form, barely lit by flickering
or two three stars, the beginning of the tunnel hole. A second
later it was closed. The boat was sailing slowly in the dark
somewhere inside the ball. Finally she stopped, and after a
while slightly shaken, standing on the shock absorbers. In the
dock, joined by bright light. After a few seconds, including an
artificial gravity field, which is distributed to the whole
ball and allowed a person to feel your normal weight. Prescott
going into a chair. He was not used to feel the effect of
gravity on the ship, and always before than to descend to the
planet, some time spent on the space station, where his weight
was two times better than on the planet. Now, it immediately
transferred from the conditions of weightlessness in the
normal. He rose from his chair and walked over to the gateway.
The door slowly slid into the wall. Coming out of the gateway,
he found himself in a giant hall, lit by spotlight, which are
on the ceiling. More two exactly the same boat were standing
near and around them scurrying Robots, unloading, as he
understood, navigation equipment. To him approached Jim
Thoreson. - I am glad to welcome you, sir. Come with me.
They entered the bay and freight elevator after some time out
the bright corridor, laden with some panels on the sides. On
ceiling Prescott constantly noticed dozens of different sensors.
They finally turned the corner and found ourselves on a large
balcony. No, Mr Prescott did not hit what he saw. He is well
managed to study the structure of the ball. But anyway, then
what they were looking, not could coincide with the fact that
Prescott supposed to see here. Before them hung one more ball.
Yes, that hung in the spherical cavity, where the left balcony.
This was the core of the ball-killers. This is all very
reminiscent of the structure of the planet. "Giant rescue
capsule, the size of a small cruiser, which can make
giperperehod directly from the center of the sphere in which it
resides," - Thought Prescott.
- It is both a residential complex and the control center field
that, - said Thorson. - In the case of mortal danger, which
ruyu way, I not stack, the kernel can perform giperperehod
range of up to one billion parsecs. That is, in several
neighboring
galaxies.
Separated from the core portion of the surface and slowly
began to crawl the balcony on which they stood, ladder. "Just
like last time, when flew from the outside, "- thought
Prescott. But Thorson they went inside. Ladder slowly removed.
Hatch was closed and there was complete darkness.
VI.
The test flight was to a raid on a small camp sevionov in
nearby system. For him have long watched with suspicion. It now
seems possible to destroy it. Seviony unlike arregov and
even more were Targon humanoid race. Outwardly, they differed
only in the copper color skin and very big feet. And besides,
they had a very nasty temper. They considered themselves the
masters of the cosmos, and fought with all living things that
came their way. In addition, they were very hardy. Seviony has
a powerful fleet, which is still not could cope with a fleet of
the planet, Fabian, but outnumbered him. Fabian and three more
nearby stellar systems - that is all occupied by humanity in
this region of the universe. Only seventeen of galaxies in the
direction of the nebula China could be found accumulation of
human colonies. There also was the center of the Great Galactic
League. Only Fabian controlled galaxy PHITEX and adjacent
fifteen galaxies. Fabian was the center. And nearby, in nearby
galaxy was a central space base sevionov. They are, oddly
enough, found only here. Arregi and Targon were everywhere,
thanks to a special secret giperperehoda. Recently, the
center of the Galactic League was brought to the captured
cruiser arregov, which is hardly affected. Set Scientists and
engineers have been involved in the study setting
giperperehoda, which has one feature: it "eats" the same amount
of fuel when jumping to a neighboring star system, and when
jumping through hundreds of galaxies. Scientists have explained
the League a deeper entrance into hyperspace. How deep
this input, and whether its people endure - it had to
scientists have found.
But after tests, scientists and engineers have come
a positive answer. Then it was built thirty balls.
In tests, they showed so much power that they became known
balls-killers. All of them were sent to the outskirts of the
territory, occupied by the Galactic League and won the first
general reference: control the margin and to conduct
exploration in unknown to mankind galaxies. Specific tasks they
were given already in port. One of these ports was Fabian.
Planet has nine balls, six of which bore a constant stretch
patrols and therefore could not take part in ekspiditsii.
VII.
Balls quickly gained subluminal speed. Stars of the points
at first turned into a small needle, and then in the line.
Planet Cryolite also evolved to a point. Issiorion the size of
a pinhead, brightly shining from behind. Ships began to drop
speed. Mission control center of the ball is not like a
conventional logging and bridges, as they were called. The
ceiling was in the form of sphere and was a solid display - a
giant panorama space. If desired, it was superimposed frame of
the lower species. In the center of the hall stood out from the
scope of a cylindrical ledge which, in fact, the Center's
management. From all sides were low consoles, because of which,
if desired, can be considered what to do with all the parties
"under the" ship. In the center was a platform lift and a
magnetic helical staircase around the shaft that goes down. In
the lower part of the nucleus were residential, cultural
facilities and a small warehouse N / C to the case will
catapult the kernel. Laboratories and plantations, which were
grown foods were mostly ball. All this huge system fed from six
converters, arranged symmetrically on all sides from the
nucleus. Converter - the universal energy converter at the
atomic and molecular level. He gave the output any energy,
which was set - from electrical to thermal energy. At the
entrance, he absorbed any material and tangible products. Basic
tool the ball are two plasma guns located at the poles. He
also had a squadron of small autonomous roboistrebiteley.
The ball stopped and Prescott got in touch with the other
two balls. Checking the coordinates giperperehoda he entered
the data in the onboard computer.
Three giant, slowly drifting in the space sphere
suddenly started slowly, one after the other to dissolve. After
a few seconds left only a slight, strange flickering stars
background where we were balls. As if the warm gas broke out,
causing the refraction of light. Soon disappeared and it ...
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