Fletcher Pratt

Name: The Onslaught from Rigel — Chapter XXI: Reinforcements
Author: Fletcher Pratt

The Onslaught from Rigel — Chapter XXI: Reinforcements (1932)

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“The Onslaught from Rigel — Chapter XXI: Reinforcements”, published in 1932, is a work by Fletcher Pratt. It explores elements such as Lassans, gravity and rocket.

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Fletcher Pratt, The Onslaught from Rigel — Chapter XXI: Reinforcements (1932)

“ From behind other trees in the little park, a group of metallic figures, all armed, rose into sight.
“My name's Ben Ruby,” said Ben, extending his hand, “at present General commanding what there is of the American army.”
“Mine's Salsinger. I suppose you could call me Mayor of Chicago since those birds got Lindstrom. So you're fighting the Lassans, eh? Good. We'd like to take a few pokes at them ourselves, but that light-ray they have is too much for us. All we can do is pot the birds.”
“Oh,” said Ben, “we've got that beat and a lot of other stuff, too. How many of you are there?” ”

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Fletcher Pratt, The Onslaught from Rigel — Chapter XXI: Reinforcements (1932)

“ Our only out is to give them better than they give us.”
“Oh, I don't know,” said Ben Ruby, “it may be a good thing for the old world at that. You never heard of all the governments of the world cooperating before as they are now did you? There are still people alive you know. Civilization hasn't been killed off by a long shot. And the lousy blue coloring that affected all the people who didn't get metallized isn't going to be permanent. The babies that are being born there now are normal, I hear. In a few generations the earth will be back to where it was, except for us. ”

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Fletcher Pratt, The Onslaught from Rigel — Chapter XXI: Reinforcements (1932)

“ Of course, we could make 'em so they worked up speed slowly, but then they wouldn't be able to cut down fast enough to maneuver. And for another thing this infra-sound ray the Lassans project would kill a flesh-and-blood man the first time it hit him. What we need for this kind of war, is supermen in the physical sense. I don't want to make any such snooty statement as that Americans are better than other people, but we happen to be the only ones who have undergone this mechanical operation and we're the only people in the world who can stand the gaff. ”

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Fletcher Pratt, The Onslaught from Rigel — Chapter XXI: Reinforcements (1932)

“ Look at all the Australians—half a million men, and the only good they are is to work in factories.”
“Can't blame them for not being made of metal like us,” said Ben. “They're doing their best and we wouldn't be here but for them. Grierson is having the shops build us another ten rocket-cruisers, on the chance that we pick up some reinforcements somewhere in the west.”
“Good,” said Sherman, “and I have another idea. I think we ought to keep at least one monitor on patrol over the Lassan city all the time. They're apt to get out and sneak one over on us. ”

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Fletcher Pratt, The Onslaught from Rigel — Chapter XXI: Reinforcements (1932)

“ Look—the negative charges will do for our gravity beam just as well as the positive. They will create an excess of negative electrons instead of an excess of positive protons in the object we hit, and cause atomic disintegration. It's a gravity process just the same, but a different one. ”

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Fletcher Pratt, The Onslaught from Rigel — Chapter XXI: Reinforcements (1932)

“ At the stern, instead of the opening running right through into the ship, was a tight bulkhead, with the connections for the gravity-beam rocket-mechanism leading through it. As Sherman had pointed out, “If this lightning is going to do us any good, we've got to get above our opponent, and those Lassans have built machines that made interplanetary voyages. ”

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Fletcher Pratt, The Onslaught from Rigel — Chapter XXI: Reinforcements (1932)

“ One of those things you charge with electricity, then you touch the tip, and bang, you get a shock. Well, this arrangement will make a super-Leyden jar of the Monitor. Every time she fires the gravity-beam, the positive charges will be put into her hull, and she'll soon be able to load up with a charge that will knock your eye out when it's let loose. ”

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Fletcher Pratt, The Onslaught from Rigel — Chapter XXI: Reinforcements (1932)

“ With some difficulty and a good deal of crowding the eight Chicagoans were gotten into the Monitor II for the return journey. They were a most welcome reinforcement and would furnish enough Americans to man all five of the extra rocket-cruisers.
“I hope,” remarked Sherman, a couple of days later, “that those Lassans don't come out quite yet, now. We've got the ships to meet them now, but the personnel isn't as well trained as I should like. ”

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Fletcher Pratt, The Onslaught from Rigel — Chapter XXI: Reinforcements (1932)

“ Before the birds had attacked them, however, they had managed to get a telegraph wire in operation and learn that people were alive at Los Angeles—whether mechanized or not they were uncertain, but they thought not. ”

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