by Edward Elmer Smith and Edward Everett Evans

Name: Masters of Space — Chapter XIII
Author: by Edward Elmer Smith and Edward Everett Evans

Masters of Space — Chapter XIII (1962)

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“Masters of Space — Chapter XIII”, published in 1962, is a work by by Edward Elmer Smith and Edward Everett Evans. It explores elements such as Strett, missiles and Kedy.

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by Edward Elmer Smith and Edward Everett Evans, Masters of Space — Chapter XIII (1962)

“ There was nothing of finesse about that attack; nothing of skill or of tactics: nothing but the sheer brute force of overwhelming superiority of numbers and of over-matching power. One instant all space was empty. The next instant it was full of invading missiles—a superb exhibition of coordination and timing.
And the Kedy control, upon which the defenders had counted so heavily, proved useless. For each Strett missile, within a fraction of a second of emergence, darted toward the nearest Oman missile with an acceleration that made the one-hundred-gravity defenders seem to be standing still. ”

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by Edward Elmer Smith and Edward Everett Evans, Masters of Space — Chapter XIII (1962)

“ Wherever a Strett missile was, or wherever a Strett skeleton-ship appeared, an Oman beam reached it, usually in much less than one second. Beam clung to screen—caressingly, hungrily—absorbing its total energy and forming the first-stage booster. Then, three microseconds later, that booster went off into a ragingly incandescent, glaringly violent burst of fury so hellishly, so inconceivably hot that less than a thousandth of its total output of energy was below the very top of the visible spectrum! ”

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by Edward Elmer Smith and Edward Everett Evans, Masters of Space — Chapter XIII (1962)

“ Instead, as energies continued to flood in at a frightfully accelerating rate, they turned into something else. Things no Terran science has ever even imagined; things at the formation of which all neighboring space actually warped, and in that warping seethed and writhed and shuddered. ”

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by Edward Elmer Smith and Edward Everett Evans, Masters of Space — Chapter XIII (1962)

“ Kedy, will you please tell this big goofus that even though you have got Jarvis Hilton's brain you aren't Jarvis Hilton and never can be?”
The atmosphere of the room vibrated in the frequencies of a deep bass laugh. “You are trying to hold a completely untenable position, friend Hilton. Any attempt to convince a mind of real power that falsity is truth is illogical. ”

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by Edward Elmer Smith and Edward Everett Evans, Masters of Space — Chapter XIII (1962)

“ When hundreds of thousands of Kedys, each wielding world-wrecking powers as effortlessly and as deftly and as precisely as thought, attacked and destroyed millions of those tremendously powerful war-fabrications of the Stretts? ”

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by Edward Elmer Smith and Edward Everett Evans, Masters of Space — Chapter XIII (1962)

“ Half a mountain range of solid rock had been converted into fabricated super-steel and armament. Superdreadnoughts Were popping into existence at the rate of hundreds per minute. Missiles were rolling off the ends of assembly lines like half-pint tin cans out of can-making machines.
The Strett warcraft, skeletons and missiles, would emerge into normal space anywhere within a million miles of Ardvor. The Ardan missiles were powered for an acceleration of one hundred gravities. That much the Kedy brains, molded solidly into teflon-lined, massively braced steel spheres, could just withstand. ”

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by Edward Elmer Smith and Edward Everett Evans, Masters of Space — Chapter XIII (1962)

“ Perhaps it would be better to say that the planet Strett became a junior-grade nova, since the actual nova stage was purely superficial and did not last very long. In a couple of hours things had quieted down enough so that the heavily-screened warships could approach the planet and finish up their part of the job. ”

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by Edward Elmer Smith and Edward Everett Evans, Masters of Space — Chapter XIII (1962)

“ I'll board the Sirius and take the task-force to Strett. Bring your stuff along, Skipper, as soon as you're ready.”
Ardan superdreadnoughts in their massed thousands poured out through Ardvor's one-way screen. Each went instantly to work. Now the Kedy control system, doing what it was designed to do, proved its full worth. For the weapons of the big battle-wagons did not depend upon acceleration, but were driven at the speed of light ”

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by Edward Elmer Smith and Edward Everett Evans, Masters of Space — Chapter XIII (1962)

“ It called for many billions of defenders instead of the few millions it was possible for the Omans to produce in the time they had. In fact, the average spacing was well over ten thousand miles when the invading horde of Strett missiles emerged and struck. ”

by Edward Elmer Smith and Edward Everett Evans

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