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Lal'lor's massive gray form was bent over a table littered with sheets of complicated symbols. Margo, who
was sprawled in the bunk, explained to Kenniston, He works theorems for amusement. He even claims he
knows what all those figures mean.
Lal'lor's small eyes twinkled in his flat, featureless face. He thrust the sheets aside and said, Sit down,
Kenniston. So we are to be allies now, as well as friends.
I wish, said Kenniston, that someone would tell me just what this alliance means. Remember, I'm
gambling the fate of my people on faith, without knowing a damned thing.
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There's nothing sinister about it, said Gorr Holl. He eased his furry bulk onto the corner of Lal'lor's table,
which was quite strong enough to hold him. As I told you, we all have the same problem, and the solution to
that problem revolves around a man and a process.
He paused. By a peculiar freak, Kenniston, you have been thrown with us rather than with your own kind.
The human races spread out from Earth so long ago, and have continued to move and spread, constantly
expanding, that they have lost all sense of identification with their old birthworld, or any other. The universe
is their home, not a planet.
Kenniston was beginning to understand that better with every passing minute. The impersonal magnitudes of
space, many times recrossed, would tend to sever a man from the old narrow ways of thought. Carol had been
right about that.
Gorr Holl went on. But we of the humanoid races don't have that background. When the humans came to our
worlds, we were nearly all barbarians, and quite happy in our barbarism. Well, they civilized us, and now we
are accepted as equals. But we're still more primitive in thought than they, we still cling to our native worlds,
and whenever it becomes necessary to move us, we balk just as your people are balking now, though we
have learned to be less violent. In the end, of course, we've always given in. But in the last few years we've
hung on more desperately because we've had something to hope for this process of Jon Arnol's.
Hold on, said Kenniston. All I know of Jon Arnol is his name. What exactly is this process? You said it
was a process for the rejuvenation of cold and dying planets?
Lal'lor answered that. Arnol's plan is this to start a cycle of matter-energy transformation similar to the
hydrogen-helium transformation which gives a Sun its energy to start such a nuclear cycle operating deep
inside a cold planet.
Kenniston stared at him, completely stunned. But, he said at last, that would be equivalent to creating a
giant solar furnace deep inside a planet!
Yes. A bold, brilliant idea. It would solve the problem of the many cold and dying worlds within the
Federation since, as you know, a planet may live on its interior heat long after the parent Sun's heat has
decreased.
He paused. Unfortunately, when Arnol tested his process on a small asteroid, the results were disastrous.
Disastrous?
Quite disastrous. Arnold's energy bomb, designed to start the cycle inside that asteroid, went wrong and
caused terrible quakes. In fact, the asteroid was wrecked. Arnol claims that it was because he was not allowed
a large enough planet for his test. His equations bear him out.
Kenniston said, Why didn't he make another test on a bigger planet, then?
The Governors would not allow it, said Lal'lor, They said it was too dangerous.
But couldn't he have tested it on an uninhabited planet without danger?
Lal'lor sighed. You don't understand, Kenniston. The Governors don't want Arnol's process to succeed. They
don't want to make it possible for primitive peoples to cling to their native worlds. That's the kind of
provincial patriotism they oppose, in their efforts to establish a truly cosmopolitan star-community.
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Kenniston thought about that. It fitted what he had seen and heard of this vast Federation of Stars. And yet...
He said, slowly, It comes down to the fact that you want to use my world, our Earth, to test a scheme which
your Governors, whatever their motives, have already ruled as dangerous.
Lal'lor nodded calmly. Yes. It comes down to that. But whether the test is made first on Earth or some
abandoned planet is beside the point. The point is to force the Board of Governors to allow another test.
Gorr Holl exclaimed, Don't you see how it links up? Alone, your plea to remain on Earth will be turned
down because you can't present any alternative to evacuation. But by advancing Jon Arnol's planet-reviving
process as an alternative, you might be able to help both Earth and us!
Kenniston struggled to comprehend the galactic complexity of the problem. In other words, if we could
persuade the Governors to give Arnol another chance, they would delay the evacuation of Earth?
They would, said Lal'lor. And if Arnol succeeded, Earth and our similar worlds throughout the Federation
could be made warm and livable again. Is it not worth trying for?
When you put it like that, said Kenniston, yes. Yes, it is. He was beginning to be hopeful again. And you
think this this solar-furnace thing might succeed? Safely, I mean?
According to all mathematical evidence, yes. Still Kenniston hesitated, and Gorr Holl said, The decision [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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