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+Title: The Hour of Battle
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+Author: Robert Sheckley
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+Illustrator: Roy Gerald Krenkel
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+Release Date: July 18, 2009 [EBook #29445]
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+Language: English
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+THE HOUR OF BATTLE
+
+BY ROBERT SHECKLEY
+
+ILLUSTRATED BY KRENKEL
+
+
+    As one of the Guardian ships protecting Earth, the crew had a
+    problem to solve. Just how do you protect a race from an enemy who
+    can take over a man's mind without seeming effort or warning?
+
+
+"That hand didn't move, did it?" Edwardson asked, standing at the port,
+looking at the stars.
+
+"No," Morse said. He had been staring fixedly at the Attison Detector
+for over an hour. Now he blinked three times rapidly, and looked again.
+"Not a millimeter."
+
+"I don't think it moved either," Cassel added, from behind the gunfire
+panel. And that was that. The slender black hand of the indicator rested
+unwaveringly on zero. The ship's guns were ready, their black mouths
+open to the stars. A steady hum filled the room. It came from the
+Attison Detector, and the sound was reassuring. It reinforced the fact
+that the Detector was attached to all the other Detectors, forming a
+gigantic network around Earth.
+
+"Why in hell don't they come?" Edwardson asked, still looking at the
+stars. "Why don't they hit?"
+
+"Aah, shut up," Morse said. He had a tired, glum look. High on his right
+temple was an old radiation burn, a sunburst of pink scar tissue. From a
+distance it looked like a decoration.
+
+"I just wish they'd come," Edwardson said. He returned from the port to
+his chair, bending to clear the low metal ceiling. "Don't you wish
+they'd come?" Edwardson had the narrow, timid face of a mouse; but a
+highly intelligent mouse. One that cats did well to avoid.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Don't you?" he repeated.
+
+The other men didn't answer. They had settled back to their dreams,
+staring hypnotically at the Detector face.
+
+"They've had enough time," Edwardson said, half to himself.
+
+Cassel yawned and licked his lips. "Anyone want to play some gin?" he
+asked, stroking his beard. The beard was a memento of his undergraduate
+days. Cassel maintained he could store almost fifteen minutes worth of
+oxygen in its follicles. He had never stepped into space unhelmeted to
+prove it.
+
+Morse looked away, and Edwardson automatically watched the indicator.
+This routine had been drilled into them, branded into their
+subconscious. They would as soon have cut their throats as leave the
+indicator unguarded.
+
+"Do you think they'll come soon?" Edwardson asked, his brown rodent's
+eyes on the indicator. The men didn't answer him. After two months
+together in space their conversational powers were exhausted. They
+weren't interested in Cassel's undergraduate days, or in Morse's
+conquests.
+
+They were bored to death even with their own thoughts and dreams, bored
+with the attack they expected momentarily.
+
+"Just one thing _I'd_ like to know," Edwardson said, slipping with ease
+into an old conversational gambit. "How far can they do it?"
+
+They had talked for weeks about the enemy's telepathic range, but they
+always returned to it.
+
+As professional soldiers, they couldn't help but speculate on the enemy
+and his weapons. It was their shop talk.
+
+"Well," Morse said wearily, "Our Detector network covers the system out
+beyond Mars' orbit."
+
+"Where we sit," Cassel said, watching the indicators now that the others
+were talking.
+
+"They might not even know we have a detection unit working," Morse said,
+as he had said a thousand times.
+
+"Oh, stop," Edwardson said, his thin face twisted in scorn. "They're
+telepathic. They must have read every bit of stuff in Everset's mind."
+
+"Everset didn't know we had a detection unit," Morse said, his eyes
+returning to the dial. "He was captured before we had it."
+
+"Look," Edwardson said, "They ask him, 'Boy, what would you do if you
+knew a telepathic race was coming to take over Earth? How would you
+guard the planet?'"
+
+"Idle speculation," Cassel said. "Maybe Everset didn't think of this."
+
+"He thinks like a man, doesn't he? Everyone agreed on this defense.
+Everset would, too."
+
+"Syllogistic," Cassel murmured. "Very shaky."
+
+"I sure wish he hadn't been captured," Edwardson said.
+
+"It could have been worse," Morse put in, his face sadder than ever.
+"What if they'd captured _both_ of them?"
+
+"I wish they'd come," Edwardson said.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Richard Everset and C. R. Jones had gone on the first interstellar
+flight. They had found an inhabited planet in the region of Vega. The
+rest was standard procedure.
+
+A flip of the coin had decided it. Everset went down in the scouter,
+maintaining radio contact with Jones, in the ship.
+
+The recording of that contact was preserved for all Earth to hear.
+
+"Just met the natives," Everset said. "Funny-looking bunch. Give you the
+physical description later."
+
+"Are they trying to talk to you?" Jones asked, guiding the ship in a
+slow spiral over the planet.
+
+"No. Hold it. Well I'm damned! They're telepathic! How do you like
+that?"
+
+"Great," Jones said. "Go on."
+
+"Hold it. Say, Jonesy, I don't know as I like these boys. They haven't
+got nice minds. Brother!"
+
+"What is it?" Jones asked, lifting the ship a little higher.
+
+"Minds! These bastards are power-crazy. Seems they've hit all the
+systems around here, looking for someone to--"
+
+"Yeh?"
+
+"I've got that a bit wrong," Everset said pleasantly. "They are not so
+bad."
+
+Jones had a quick mind, a suspicious nature and good reflexes. He set
+the accelerator for all the G's he could take, lay down on the floor and
+said, "Tell me more."
+
+"Come on down," Everset said, in violation of every law of spaceflight.
+"These guys are all right. As a matter of fact, they're the most
+marvelous--"
+
+That was where the recording ended, because Jones was pinned to the
+floor by twenty G's acceleration as he boosted the ship to the level
+needed for the C-jump.
+
+He broke three ribs getting home, but he got there.
+
+A telepathic species was on the march. What was Earth going to do about
+it?
+
+A lot of speculation necessarily clothed the bare bones of Jones'
+information. Evidently the species could take over a mind with ease.
+With Everset, it seemed that they had insinuated their thoughts into
+his, delicately altering his previous convictions. They had possessed
+him with remarkable ease.
+
+How about Jones? Why hadn't they taken him? Was distance a factor? Or
+hadn't they been prepared for the suddenness of his departure?
+
+One thing was certain. Everything Everset knew, the enemy knew. That
+meant they knew where Earth was, and how defenseless the planet was to
+their form of attack.
+
+It could be expected that they were on their way.
+
+Something was needed to nullify their tremendous advantage. But what
+sort of something? What armor is there against thought? How do you dodge
+a wavelength?
+
+Pouch-eyed scientists gravely consulted their periodic tables.
+
+And how do you know when a man has been possessed? Although the enemy
+was clumsy with Everset, would they continue to be clumsy? Wouldn't they
+learn?
+
+Psychologists tore their hair and bewailed the absence of an absolute
+scale for humanity.
+
+Of course, something had to be done at once. The answer, from a
+technological planet, was a technological one. Build a space fleet and
+equip it with some sort of a detection-fire network.
+
+This was done in record time. The Attison Detector was developed, a
+cross between radar and the electroencephalograph. Any alteration from
+the typical human brain wave pattern of the occupants of a
+Detector-equipped ship would boost the indicator around the dial. Even a
+bad dream or a case of indigestion would jar it.
+
+It seemed probable that any attempt to take over a human mind would
+disturb something. There had to be a point of interaction, somewhere.
+
+That was what the Attison Detector was supposed to detect. Maybe it
+would.
+
+The spaceships, three men to a ship, dotted space between Earth and
+Mars, forming a gigantic sphere with Earth in the center.
+
+Tens of thousands of men crouched behind gunfire panels, watching the
+dials on the Attison Detector.
+
+The unmoving dials.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"Do you think I could fire a couple of bursts?" Edwardson asked, his
+fingers on the gunfire button. "Just to limber the guns?"
+
+"Those guns don't need limbering," Cassel said, stroking his beard.
+"Besides, you'd throw the whole fleet into a panic."
+
+"Cassel," Morse said, very quietly. "Get your hand off your beard."
+
+"Why should I?" Cassel asked.
+
+"Because," Morse answered, almost in a whisper, "I am about to ram it
+right down your fat throat."
+
+Cassel grinned and tightened his fists. "Pleasure," he said. "I'm tired
+of looking at that scar of yours." He stood up.
+
+"Cut it," Edwardson said wearily. "Watch the birdie."
+
+"No reason to, really," Morse said, leaning back. "There's an alarm bell
+attached." But he looked at the dial.
+
+"What if the bell doesn't work?" Edwardson asked. "What if the dial is
+jammed? How would you like something cold slithering into your mind?"
+
+"The dial'll work," Cassel said. His eyes shifted from Edwardson's face
+to the motionless indicator.
+
+"I think I'll sack in," Edwardson said.
+
+"Stick around," Cassel said. "Play you some gin."
+
+"All right." Edwardson found and shuffled the greasy cards, while Morse
+took a turn glaring at the dial.
+
+"I sure wish they'd come," he said.
+
+"Cut," Edwardson said, handing the pack to Cassel.
+
+"I wonder what our friends look like," Morse said, watching the dial.
+
+"Probably remarkably like us," Edwardson said, dealing the cards. Cassel
+picked them up one by one, slowly, as if he hoped something interesting
+would be under them.
+
+"They should have given us another man," Cassel said. "We could play
+bridge."
+
+"I don't play bridge," Edwardson said.
+
+"You could learn."
+
+"Why didn't we send a task force?" Morse asked. "Why didn't we bomb
+their planet?"
+
+"Don't be dumb," Edwardson said. "We'd lose any ship we sent. Probably
+get them back at us, possessed and firing."
+
+"Knock with nine," Cassel said.
+
+"I don't give a good damn if you knock with a thousand," Edwardson said
+gaily. "How much do I owe you now?"
+
+"Three million five hundred and eight thousand and ten. Dollars."
+
+"I sure wish they'd come," Morse said.
+
+"Want me to write a check?"
+
+"Take your time. Take until next week."
+
+"Someone should reason with the bastards," Morse said, looking out the
+port. Cassel immediately looked at the dial.
+
+"I just thought of something," Edwardson said.
+
+"Yeh?"
+
+"I bet it feels horrible to have your mind grabbed," Edwardson said. "I
+bet it's awful."
+
+"You'll know when it happens," Cassel said.
+
+"Did Everset?"
+
+"Probably. He just couldn't do anything about it."
+
+"My mind feels fine," Cassel said. "But the first one of you guys starts
+acting queer--watch out."
+
+They all laughed.
+
+"Well," Edwardson said, "I'd sure like a chance to reason with them.
+This is stupid."
+
+"Why not?" Cassel asked.
+
+"You mean go out and meet _them_?"
+
+"Sure," Cassel said. "We're doing no good sitting here."
+
+"I should think we could do something," Edwardson said slowly. "After
+all, they're not invincible. They're reasoning beings."
+
+Morse punched a course on the ship's tape, then looked up.
+
+"You think we should contact the command? Tell them what we're doing?"
+
+"No!" Cassel said, and Edwardson nodded in agreement. "Red tape. We'll
+just go out and see what we can do. If they won't talk, we'll blast 'em
+out of space."
+
+"Look!"
+
+Out of the port they could see the red flare of a reaction engine; the
+next ship in their sector, speeding forward.
+
+"They must have got the same idea," Edwardson said.
+
+"Let's get there first," Cassel said. Morse shoved the accelerator in
+and they were thrown back in their seats.
+
+"That dial hasn't moved yet, has it?" Edwardson asked, over the clamor
+of the Detector alarm bell.
+
+"Not a move out of it," Cassel said, looking at the dial with its
+indicator slammed all the way over to the highest notch.
+
+
+
+
+Transcriber's Note:
+
+    This etext was produced from _Space Science Fiction_ September 1953.
+    Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S.
+    copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and
+    typographical errors have been corrected without note.
+
+
+
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