Menace of the Saucers by Eando Binder

Author:Eando Binder
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: science fiction, sci-fi, pulp fiction, UFO, aliens
ISBN: 9781479403516
Publisher: Wildside Press
Published: 2014-08-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

“An insectal race, busily setting up apparatus and processing the soil, the Midge World escaped our notice for a century,” admitted Thalkon ruefully. “During that time, they set up mining camps all over earth and quietly extracted every bit of an element called technetium. Technetium is a metal that acquires negative weight under electrical stimulus. In short, it is an antigravity agent, from which giant floating barges can be made to transport a world’s goods with ease.”

“And the Midge World thieves got away with it all?”

“Several million tons, even though technetium was the rarest element on earth at the time. Remember, they had a full century to work. The Vigilantes did not catch on until they had finished their planetary larceny. By then it was too late to stop them or take their technetium away. We simply quarantined their world from any further space commerce for the next million years, to teach them a lesson.

“Take Atlantis,” Thalkon said. “Despite doubts among earth archeologists and authorities, it did exist about 25,000 years ago. But it was a city of heartbreak and tyranny. Millions of humans were subjugated by their space masters, who were humans of a monstrous sort….”

“When one of our cruisers came across this gross slavery of a world—and after all we cannot visit every world too often—the Vigilantes moved in and attempted to smash the power of the slave masters. Facing defeat, they savagely sabotaged the whole island which sank, as in your legends.”

“All humans on Atlantis died in that tragic holocaust,” put in Miribel softly, “along with their mad masters.”

“Mankind fell into decline after that. But emergency squads were sent from the Planetary Reclamation and Rehabilitation Bureau of the Vigilantes to help re-establish civilization in the following centuries.”

Thalkon manipulated a movie screen that showed a mighty pyramid being built in ancient Egypt. But there were no long lines of toiling men hauling giant blocks up wooden inclines, as the scene had been reconstructed by archeologists.

Instead, a series of flying saucer disks were coming and going, each with a stone block suspended under it by invisible forces, which was neatly deposited in place.

“Yes,” said Thalkon, “we helped build the pyramids which, as you may or may not know, were not just tombs for Pharaohs but….”

“Astronomical stations,” interrupted Thane, remembering this from Sheel’s UFO book. “The sides by extension gave the size of earth. Certain peephole passages focused on the moon at high and low tides. The passage of the sun, planets, and stars across the sky could be tracked accurately by specific sightings from within the pyramid.”

“Let me tell you of one more threat to earth by a self-seeking world.” The screen, at Thalkon’s wave, now mirrored a huge belted planet with a great reddish spot plus a smaller yellowish blob.

“Jupiter?” guessed Thane.

Suddenly, the yellow spot belched forth from the planet’s seething surface and spun away through space.

“The Kull people did that with powerful electro-gravitic forces. A blazing comet was formed, more gigantic than ever known before, which grazed earth and caused chaos.

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