Subspace Explorers 02 - Subspace Encounter by E E (Doc) Smith

Author:E E (Doc) Smith [Smith, E E]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sci-Fi., Science Fiction
Publisher: Panther
Published: 2017-12-24T16:00:00+00:00

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THE EAGLE-FEEDING

Rodnar, Marrjyl, and Knuaire, working together to avoid duplication, alerted two hundred-odd other Psiontist Firsts of six planets and they all went to Slaar. Five of those six planets did not require attention, since none of them had a Grand Justice on the Justiciate; but Slaar was all-important. As a matter of fact, it worked out that whoever held the City of Meetyl and its Edifice of Justice and its top-echelon Guards of the Person held the entire Justiciate.

The two hundred-plus psiontists 'ported into Meetyl without any trouble. Most of them were unknown to the Guards, all of them had excellent covers, and a few hundred visitors make no impression at all upon a city of ten million. The three ringleaders-four, counting the metallurgist Sleht-who were well known to, and wanted badly by, the secret police, had no trouble, either- Meetyl had so many first-class hotels that, except for the tourist and convention seasons, there were many hundreds of rooms vacant every night. Food, of course, was no problem, and the fact that they could not pay for either lodging or food did not bother them at all.

They had no worries about anything three-dimensional, but subspace was something else. Something entirely else. They were watching subspace-all subspace through or by any part of which any approach whatever could be made to the Edifice of Justice and the person of the Supreme Justice of the Justiciate. Since time would be extremely important in the instant of attack-to be measured in milliseconds-they had set up an instantaneously-reactive webwork of warning, and the psiontist handling that webwork worked a shift only one minute long. That was as long as even those minds could stay at the peak of tension and awareness.

They were virtually certain that Laynch would make his move in daylight and in public. They were fairly sure that it would be at a big public affair, very probably the well- publicized eagle-feeding extraordinary to be held five days from then in the Room of the Throne itself, and which His Power the Supreme Justice himself was going to grace with his presence. Nevertheless, they took no chances. The Supreme Justice, although he had no suspicion of the fact, was being guarded as no entity in all history had ever been guarded before, guarded through every millisecond of every hour of every day.

Marrjyl, whose long one-minute shift followed Rodnar's, was just as tense and alert and keen as he had been. She, too, held a plasma-jet blaster in one hand and a razor-sharp bladesman's knife in the other.

The Edifice of Justice is not an edifice. Nor is it a cave. It is a thing of a thousand rooms built in the depths of a mountain. It is protected in every direction by more than two thousand yards of solid rock, as well as by all the weaponry known to a warlike race of men. Built of high-tensile alloy, it is much stronger as a unit than the volume of rock it replaced.

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