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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: Machine Of Klamugra - -Author: Allen K. Lang - -Release Date: February 26, 2021 [eBook #64640] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -Produced by: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MACHINE OF KLAMUGRA *** - - - - - Machine of KLAMUGRA - - By Allen K. Lang - - Captain Barnaby and Lieutenant Teajun stood - at the brink of that vast stone amphitheater, - staring wonderingly down at half-an-acre of - gadget. This glittering mass of million-year - clockwork was the Machine ... and soon it was - to judge them for their crime against Mars! - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Planet Stories November 1950. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -Klaggchallak, his fur nose-flaps pulled tight against his nostrils, -stumbled up to the gleaming pinnacle of steel that seemed to offer -shelter against the night. He felt a dust-storm gathering in the -west, and knew that not even the tough skin of a Martian priest could -withstand the angry whippings of sand lashed up by the wind-warlocks of -the desert. - -The old priest drew a tiny, folded _mal_-skin tent from his back-pack. -Without haste, for he knew that the elder gods of Mars were watching -his safety, Klaggchallak pitched the tent against the west stabilizer -of the rocket, drawing the tough hide down to form a floor-flap and -fastening it to the steel of the stabilizer with tough _mal_-hoof glue, -which would hold fast in the fiercest winds of Mars. He looked for the -sun and found it low in the evening sky, then crawled leisurely into -the yurt, pulling the door-flap down after him and gluing it to the -floor. He had for himself a secure cocoon into which the sand-devils -could not force their probing fingers. Before he slept, the old -priest fingered his beads, reciting his evening invocation to various -benevolent and protective gods. - -The falling sun threw a dancing star against the hull of the ship -standing tall in its tail-chocks. A bewildering wail, the banshee-call -of "Danger; ship jetting off!" sounded; but Klaggchallak slept on, -hearing through his dreams only the howling of the wind. - -Sixty seconds later, as prescribed in the General Regulations of the -Extraterrestrial Service, a second sound began, that most fearful of -noises, the sirening of the rocket exhaust. The Martian in his skin -tent wakened and felt fear gnaw at his bones; fear induced by subsonic -tremors from the rocket blast. Klaggchallak reached for his beads as -the heat soaked into his thick, wrinkled skin. - -In a moment the floor sagged beneath him. With the _mal_-skin pouch -dangling ridiculously from its tail assembly, the EXTS rocket _Vulcan_ -rose with great gentleness from its tail-chocks, pushed up on its -spraying jets. - -Four seconds later the ship was a ruby flame above the low hills. Eight -seconds later a charred bipod, a bifurcated cinder, tumbled down from -space to strike near the jetoff field, where the _Vulcan's_ tail-chocks -glowed dull red and the blackened ground smoldered. A moment later a -bracelet of blast-welded beads tumbled down from the sky, falling near -the carbon hulk that a few seconds before had been Klaggchallak, a -Martian priest great in wisdom and in honor among his people. - - * * * * * - -Captain Jan Barnaby and Lieutenant Kim Teajun of the Extraterrestrial -Service stood before the Board of Inquiry at Denver, D. F. The -President of the Board, a Chief Commander's star-on-silver gleaming at -his right collar point, opened the proceedings: - -"The military rocket _Vulcan_, EXTS light cruiser, is accused by -the Martian authorities of causing the death of one Klaggchallak, a -priest. They further claim that the death of Klaggchallak was caused -by criminal negligence on the part of the pilot and co-pilot of the -rocket, Captain Jan Barnaby and Lieutenant Kim Teajun, respectively. -Such neglect being within the definition of murder in the Martian legal -code, the Judging Authority of Mars demands that we deliver these two -men to them for trial and eventual punishment." - -The Commander stroked his grey hair thoughtfully as he looked up -from his report to the two unhappy officers before him. "At ease, -gentlemen." Barnaby and Teajun slumped. "While I'm inclined to agree -with you two that Klaggchallak's frying was his own fool fault, I must -say that you picked a damned poor time to become the instruments of his -immolation. We had hoped to establish an extra-territoriality agreement -with Mars, but the death of old Klaggchallak puts that out of the -question. To further Martian tranquility, you men will have to return -to Mars and face the Judging Authority there. If my feelings were all -that is at stake, gentlemen, I'd tell the Marties to go trippingly to -hell, and keep you here on Earth. But to do this would mean we'd be -forced to abandon our bases and mines and surveys on all Mars. We'd be -giving our European competitors a clear field." The Commander folded -the report neatly, once and again. "Captain Barnaby and Lieutenant Kim, -you'll be on the next Mars-ward ship. We can't help you if you're -convicted by our fuzzy friends. You'll have to stay there and take -whatever punishment they demand." - -Kim was remembering a scene he and Barnaby had witnessed at Klamugra, -the seat of the Martian Judging Authority. A Martian, convicted of -murder, was being executed atop a high metal platform. A large portion -of the city's population was gathered before the platform, watching the -edifying spectacle of a fellow-Martian dying with horrifying slowness -as the chocks of a vise pressed into his skull. They were bearcats for -gladiatorial amusement. - -"Do you gentlemen have any questions?" - -Lieutenant Kim glanced at Captain Barnaby, then spoke. "Yes, sir. I'd -like to know how long we're going to let the Marties push us around -this way. Thirteen Martian priests are on our payroll, just because -they demand it. We've got to stay five kilometers away from their -cities, or pay a five-hundred credit fine. We can't spit without -special permission from the Grand Council of Mars. We don't think like -they do; why should we submit to being judged by their million-year-old -laws? In all respect, sir, why does our Service act so weak?" - -The Commander made a pyramid of thumbs and forefingers, and considered -it. "Lieutenant Kim, I've been asking myself that question for the last -ten years. We've had to pay tribute to gain the Marties' permission to -stay on their god-forsaken planet. That tribute represents half the -operating expense of the Martian Department of the Service, credits -that should be spent on new ships and more men. We've behaved like a -bunch of patsies ever since von Munger and Ley landed on Mars. - -"Still, we're all soldiers, and we must follow regulations. We mustn't -disturb the indigenous population on Mars; that's Regulation 'A-1.' -If our policies grow distasteful to the Marties, they may call in the -Europeans to take our place. We wouldn't like that. It's bad form to -admit it, gentlemen, but I'm ashamed to give you this order. You're -to jet off for Mars tomorrow morning; and on arrival at Klamugra, -to deliver yourselves over to the Martian Judging Authority." The -Commander rapped his gavel and stood; the two officers before the Board -snapped to attention. "Board of Inquiry dismissed." - - * * * * * - -Fully aware that tomorrow's jetoff would multiply by eight the -hangovers they were breeding, Captain Barnaby and Lieutenant Kim sat -that evening in the Denver Dive, alternating drinks of European vodka -with rounds of California moon-dew. As Kim said: "Drink as much as you -like, Barnaby; we're not driving in the morning." - -"Tell me," Barnaby demanded of his co-pilot, "what you're thinking of, -you Martie-roasting fiend of a Korean." - -"I was considering the memory of the 'shlunk!' that Martian murderer's -skull made when it finally gave in, that day at Klamugra. Do you -remember, hard-headed Yankee?" Kim's eyes followed the blonde ecdysiast -across the stage more from habit than present interest. - -"Why did you have to remember that? 'Shlunk!'--ugh!" - -"We're going to have to squirm out of this, Barnaby-_sunsang_," Kim -said. "We'll have to beat that rap at Klamugra. It's not that I wish to -avoid putting my head in a vise; it's only that it hurts me to see the -Extraterrestrial Service made a monkey of this way. In a way it will -even be a shame if we get off. Think of all the Marties who will miss -the opportunity to see your punkin head smashed." - -"You orientals have noble souls, Kim." - -The blonde stripper, having uncovered as much of herself as she could -without resorting to dissection, jumped down from the stage and walked -over to the two EXTS officers. "Would you gentlemen like to buy me a -drink?" she asked. - -Kim's eyes roved abroad in a brief anatomy lesson, but Barnaby said, -"I'll buy you one a couple of weeks from now, if I'm not laid up -somewhere with a splitting headache." He stood unsteadily and tossed a -ten-credit certificate on the table. "If you're really thirsty, get a -drink out of that." - -Kim reluctantly followed his superior officer from the bar. At the door -he turned and called back to the blonde, "Don't catch cold, child. I'll -be back." - - * * * * * - -The dawn jetoff was miserable, as jetoffs always are. Four days brought -the ship within falling-distance of Mars; soon the jets thundered as it -backed into a pocket of hills outside Klamugra. The air-pumps hammered -to bring the air pressure inside the hull gradually down to that of -the outside, so that instruments and equipment wouldn't be subjected -to a sudden lowering of pressure. The men inside the ship slipped -plastic helmets over their heads, checked the tiny air-pumps on their -shoulders, and drew on heavy gloves and boots. - -When the port swung open Kim and Barnaby climbed down the ladder to the -blast-blackened sand. The sergeant of EXTS Provost Marshall who had -accompanied them walked with the officers to a hill overlooking the -ancient Martian city of Klamugra, which stood on a terrace about five -kilometers to the north. The red adobe walls of the city, testimony -of the ancient days when Mars had enough water to allow its use for -brick-making, blended with the distance to seem a part of the red -desert sand. - -A cloud of steam and dust appeared between the hill where they stood -and the city. Captain Barnaby un-leathered his binoculars and pressed -them to the eyepieces of his helmet, and made out a hopping jeep, its -top enclosed in plastic and a trio of supercharger coils poking through -the sides of the hood. Clouds of steam followed the jeep as its exhaust -streamed out into the chilly air. - - * * * * * - -In a moment the jeep spun up the hill and ground to a halt. There -was a pause as the men inside the jeep fitted their helmets on their -shoulders, checked their air-pumps, and drew on their gauntlets. Then -the plastic bubble lifted back, a sergeant jumped out from under the -steering wheel and saluted, and a Colonel, EXTS Intelligence, walked -up to Captain Barnaby and Lieutenant Kim. "Gentlemen," he said, "I'm -Colonel Lee Montgomery, Commanding Officer, Third Sector. It is my -unpleasant duty to turn you over to the Chief Technician of the Martian -Judging Authority, who is Rhinklav'n, here." - -At these words a tall Martian unfolded himself from the back seat -of the jeep. He climbed out and bowed before Captain Barnaby. "I am -Rhinklav'n, Captain." The thick fur nose-flaps, looking like ear-muffs -pulled across his muzzle, muffled Rhinklav'n's high-pitched voice so -that it gave the effect of coming from the bottom of a rain barrel. -"You are to accompany me to Klamugra to be judged by the Machine, of -which I am the Honored First Technician." - -Barnaby and Kim bowed slightly to acknowledge Rhinklav'n, then crawled -into the back seat of the jeep, next to Colonel Montgomery. - -Rhinklav'n and the sergeant sat up front. The sergeant pushed a button -on the instrument panel, and the plastic top of the jeep dropped down -to cover them. As the engine started, the jeep's air-pump drew in air -until the atmosphere was thick enough for human lungs. The Martian -squirmed uncomfortably in the heavy air while his human companions -threw off their helmets. Lieutenant Kim gratefully drew a deep breath -of air, and regretted it immediately. What with the million-year water -shortage the Martians had lost even the word for bath. Besides, the -most popular article of Martian cuisine is a bulb strikingly similar -to the terrestrial garlic plant. Captain Barnaby turned to Kim. "Mars -has a distinguished atmosphere, hasn't it?" He spoke in English, rather -than in the Esperanto lingua-franca of space. - -"Indeed it has," Kim agreed. "What was old fuzz-face up there talking -about when he spoke of 'the Machine,' Colonel?" - -"The law of Mars is the most rigidly systematized in the solar system," -Colonel Montgomery replied. "Several millions of years ago, a bright -Martie got the idea that it was unwise to trust mortal judges with -a problem so important as the sentencing of criminals. So he called -in a lot of mechanics--ancient Mars had some pretty fair engineers, -though they never discovered electricity--and had them build a -judging-machine. Since the climate is right and the machine was built -of a stainless steel, it's still here and still being used. It's an -enormous thing; spreads over half-an-acre in a big amphitheatre in the -center of town. It's an analogue computer, rather clumsy by terrestrial -standards, but nevertheless well-built. You know the principles of -analogue calculators. Instead of working with coded, position-valued -impulses, like the electronic astrogator on our rockets, the mechanical -machines solve problems by making use of the physical analogies between -cogs and gears and differentials." - -"Do you mean that we're going to be punished or set free by a bunch of -clockwork, colonel?" Kim asked. - -"In a way, yes. The Machine is a most impersonal judge. That fact won't -help you, though. Martian legal code is strict about killing, there -being some thirty-odd degrees of murder, ranging in seriousness from a -'simple homicide to secure a mate,' the punishment for which is death -by dehydration, most often; to 'killing to secure for oneself material -benefits,' for which there exist more subtle forms of death by torture." - -"Like getting a small-head-size in a vise?" Captain Barnaby grunted. - -"That's the usual punishment for murder in the seventeenth degree, -where the crime is usually 'killing for spiritual advancement.' You -see, each crime is given special study by the Machine. A great many -factors are fed in, collated with certain constants within the Machine, -processed through several dozen stages, and finally combined into a -single number, which represents the punishment called for. By the way," -the colonel studied the back of Rhinklav'n's head, "no consideration -of the truthfulness of the 'defendant' is entered into the Machine. It -is presumed that should a man say that he did not commit a crime, he -didn't; if he did, he'd admit it. Martians have a peculiar character -defect that prevents them from lying." - -"A defect from which we humans are fortunately free," Kim grinned. - -"That's no out," Colonel Montgomery countered. "They have witnesses who -saw Klaggchallak fry. Besides, we prefer to have the mass of Marties -ignorant of the average earthling's penchant for prevarication. It -saves the Service a lot of money not to have to prove anything it tells -our hairy hosts out here." - - * * * * * - -The jeep hit the first of the series of low terraces which set the -city of Klamugra up from the surrounding desert plains, and the little -car bounced high off the sand. Colonel Montgomery looked startled, as -though he'd just remembered something. "You know, in my ethnological -fervor I didn't realize what you two men are in for. Cosmos! I'm -practically delivering you up as human sacrifices!" - -"We came to that conclusion five days ago, colonel," Lieutenant Kim -dryly observed. - -"I can see what the Fleet Commander meant when he said that he was -giving me 'a most unpleasant assignment.' Hell, I don't think the -Machine is able to give a judgment of 'not guilty'." Colonel Montgomery -gazed toward the city they were approaching. "We've got to turn you -in. We can't risk a blowup with the Martian Grand Council. There are -rumors that ..." the colonel glanced again with suspicion at the back -of Rhinklav'n's hairy neck, as though suspecting that the Martian might -be able to puzzle out the meaning of their conversation, though it was -in English. "There are rumors that the -artiansMay have an agent among -the -ussiansRay. We can't risk having the borsch-eaters more popular -out here than the Western Powers." The jeep bounded up the last of the -terraces and through an opening in the city wall. The adobe buildings -raced past, and with a final bound the jeep came to the edge of the -huge, circular bowl which held the Machine. - -"There's your judge," Colonel Montgomery said, speaking in Esperanto -again. "I haven't much hope to offer you. For one thing, you're the -first humans ever to be judged by the Machine." - -The men picked up their helmets and air-pumps and adjusted them on -their shoulders. Rhinklav'n drew his furry nostril-flaps down into -place against the sudden change in pressure. The plastic top of the -jeep flew back on its springs and the men climbed out, stretching their -cramped muscles. The radiophones in the helmets buzzed, and the colonel -gave Captain Barnaby a last word. "I want to impress you with the fact -that the Service cannot protect you, from this moment onward. If you -escape being killed it must be on your own merits. And don't start -shooting Marties--won't do you a bit of good. There's a lot at stake -for Earth here. Good luck, men!" Colonel Montgomery saluted, and he and -his sergeant jumped back in the jeep, slammed the top down, and whirled -away. - -Rhinklav'n turned to the two EXTS officers. "Gentlemen, I've assigned -you quarters here, near the Machine. Will you follow me?" Kim and -Barnaby followed the Martian a short distance from the edge of the -amphitheater to a lone adobe building, one story high and about ten -meters square. "Here are your quarters, where you'll stay tonight. Your -judging is set for tomorrow morning." - -Captain Barnaby glanced into the building and was surprised to see -that it closed with an airlock, had terrestrial canned foods on -neat shelves, and had regular Service cots in place of the rough -_mal_-leather mats that the Martians slept on. "It was good of you to -go to all this trouble just for myself and Lieutenant Kim, Rhinklav'n," -the Captain said. - -The Martian paused at the door. "It's not just for you, Captain. Five -other terrestrials have committed crimes of various proportions within -the last few weeks. They will also be tried here, after your case is -disposed of." Rhinklav'n left, considerately closing the airlock door -and starting the pump on his way out. - -Lieutenant Kim took a can of "B" ration beans down from the shelf and -thoughtfully began to open it with his Service knife. "Captain," he -said, "this sort of thing could drive our Service from Mars. If the -Marties consider it their right to judge every Earthling who runs a -jeep into a farmer's _mal_ or lands half a meter too near one of their -cities, we won't have a man on the planet in a couple of years." - -"Kim, we're precedents." - -"What do you mean, Yankee?" - -"If the Marties succeed in convicting us of murder in some unheard-of -degree by using that overgrown Erector Set of theirs, we'll be only -the first two of a long string of EXTServicemen to be executed under -Mars law. We can't let them do it." Captain Barnaby paused a moment -to pour himself out a plateful of beans. "Kim, what was that process -you used to rely on back in EXTS Academy in Denver? The one that gave -you the right answers after you found that your first solutions to our -astrogation problems were a few hundred thousand kilometers off?" - -Kim stopped chewing for a moment in surprise. "You mean that you got -through the Academy without using the 'finagle factor'? No wonder you -made captain so soon. It's simple: I'd look up the right answer in the -Service charts, find by what factor my solution was off, and introduce -that factor into my next calculation, making it inconspicuous under a -lot of mathematical camouflage. Don't bawl me out about it, Barny; I -just couldn't see letting my extracurricular activities suffer for my -schoolwork." - -"Yes, you did a lot of your studying at the Denver Dive. No matter, -little man. Eat hearty and get some sleep." Barnaby stirred his beans -thoughtfully. "We've got a big day ahead of us tomorrow." - - * * * * * - -Early the next morning a subordinate technician of the Machine hammered -on the airlock. The two terrestrials pulled on their heavy jackets, fur -boots, and gauntlets, started the little air-pumps on their shoulders, -and opened the lock. "The honored First Technician of the Machine -invites your presence at your trial, which is to begin very soon," the -Martian said, speaking halting Esperanto. Kim and Barnaby followed him -to the edge of the Machine bowl. There had been several changes made -during the night. An elevated platform had been set up, identical to -the one used in the bloody execution they'd witnessed. About twenty -Martians were clustered around the Machine, some of them making -last-minute adjustments in the mechanism; others, evidently sightseers, -gazing curiously at the two principals in the trial. - -Rhinklav'n was waiting, his nose-flaps drawn over his nostrils to keep -the cold morning air from cutting into his lungs. "I am pleased that -you come," he said. "The Machine is fully assembled for your problem." -He pointed down toward the Machine, a vast cluster of separate stages -connected by rods. "On the far right, in that small building, is the -power source of the Machine, a mercury-turbine engine. We can't spare -the water to make steam, you know. The first stage contains the Martian -actuarial tables, the second has the actuarial system for determining -the probable life-spans of you two Earthlings. That's without taking -into consideration the probability that you two will be executed as a -result of the judgement of the Machine." - -Lieutenant Kim nodded. "Most ingenious. But I'm afraid that there's a -factor that you've omitted." - -"We've made no factual error, Lieutenant," Rhinklav'n insisted. "The -value of the sage Klaggchallak is represented there--" he pointed to -the fourth stage, "and your social value to the people of Mars is here -represented." Rhinklav'n waved one mitten-like hand toward the fifth -stage. "If you'll examine that stage, you'll observe that your value is -negative: the shaft representing it revolves in a direction opposite to -that of the others. Yes, you'll surely be executed." - -Captain Barnaby nodded, as though the reiteration of the probability -of his early demise troubled him less than the philosophical question -he'd stumbled across. "Still, as my subordinate officer has said, -there's a factor which you seem to have omitted. In the terminology of -terrestrial psychometering, this quantity is called--what did you say -it was, Lieutenant Kim?" - -"The 'finagle factor,' sir." - -"Really?" Rhinklav'n asked, the light of scientific inquiry in his -eyes. "I thought I'd taken all the variables of Earthling physiology -and psychology into consideration when I set up the plans for the -trial. What are the mathematics of this 'finagle factor'?" - - * * * * * - -Captain Barnaby put one foot up on a connecting shaft, as though he -were in the Denver Dive, discussing the relative merits of two video -dancers. "As you've doubtless noticed in your extensive study of the -Terrestrial mind, Sir Honored First Technician of the Machine, we of -Earth place almost equal value on a man's intelligence and on his -financial standing as criteria of his worth." - -"Yes," Rhinklav'n mused, "I noticed your preoccupation with both -intelligence (a minor mental quality, by the way; far inferior to -spiritual insight or time-sense) and with the individual's possession -of Western Credits." - -"As I said," Captain Barnaby continued, "there exists a precise -formula, developed by the...." - -"By the Noyoudont Dentifrice Laboratories," Kim supplied. - -"Yes; their laboratories developed the mathematics of the finagle -factor. Briefly, it is this: the square root of the product of -Intelligence Quotient over one hundred times the number of credits the -individual has outstanding. Or, written algebraically:" Barnaby knelt -down and traced in the sand with his gloved index finger: - -[sqrt](IQ/100 x money in the bank) - -"Quite a simple equation, easily represented on the Machine," -Rhinklav'n observed. He called a subordinate technician to his side and -spoke to him in the clicking polysyllables of the Martian language. -Turning again to Captain Barnaby, he asked, "And what are the values of -'IQ' and 'Money in the Bank' for you and Lieutenant Kim?" - -"Our combined IQs total about 243. How many credits do you own, -Lieutenant Kim?" - -"Hell, sir; I've got more debts than credits." - -"Figure up your debts then, Lieutenant." - -Kim raised his right gauntlet, drew a pad of paper and a pencil from a -pocket at the back of his hand, and scribbled rapidly. "If we get out -of this, Captain, I'll owe about 1046 credits. Subtracting pay due for -the last semi-annual period, I owe 437 credits." - -"And I have debts totaling 600 credits," Captain Barnaby said -thoughtfully. He turned to Rhinklav'n. "The debts of myself and -Lieutenant Kim, Sir Honored First Technician of the Machine, total 1037 -Western Credits. Being debt, that's a negative number, of course." - -"Of course, Captain," Rhinklav'n agreed. "The Machine can handle any -sort of number, even a negative number. You noticed that your social -value to Mars was easily represented as a minus-number." Rhinklav'n -talked rapidly to his assistant and handed him the values of the -finagle factor, rewritten in Martian ideographs. He faced Captain -Barnaby again. "It will take us about an hour to enter this new factor -into the Machine," he said. "You'll not mind waiting?" - -"No, not at all," Barnaby murmured. He and Kim leaned against the -inside wall of the amphitheater, watching the Martian technicians hurry -about; they removed gears and replaced them with gears of another -ratio; they connected a stage consisting of eccentric cams strung on -shafts; and they installed a mass of machinery at the sixth stage, -where the operation of extracting square root was to take place. Kim, -comparing the heavy gears and levers of the Machine with the compact -tubes of his electronic astrogator, remarked, "It's like using a trip -hammer to crack a walnut." - - * * * * * - -After a few minutes of watching, Kim and Barnaby became conscious of an -intruder within their helmets, a most unpleasant odor. They glanced up -to the edge of the bowl. The Martian sightseers were sitting up there, -dangling their legs above the Machine and utilizing the pause in the -proceedings to eat their picnic lunches. They were busily unwrapping -bundles of food from the _mal_-skin pouches hanging by their sides and -eating as they watched the technicians work over the Machine. - -One of the tourists, judging from his height a young male, threw a -small parcel toward Kim. The lieutenant picked it up and unwrapped it. -The stench of Martian garlic became unbearable as Kim stared at the -unidentifiable tidbit of meat the Martian had thrown him; the air-pump -on his shoulder drew the redolence into his helmet in such quantities -that Kim's eyes burned. He gestured to show that, while his every -instinct demanded that he eat the delicious morsel, he couldn't take -his helmet off to do so. With an elaborate pantomiming of sorrow, Kim -pitched the gift back up to the Martian boy. - -A few adjustments later the technicians filed up from the Machine pit. -Rhinklav'n walked over to the two EXTS officers. "If you gentlemen will -accompany me, we'll begin the trial at once." - -Kim and Barnaby walked together up the steps that led from the Machine, -then turned and looked down at the dozens of stages of complex -machinery, into which memory and intelligence of a sort had been built. -Rhinklav'n pointed toward the fifth and sixth stages. "It is there -that the combined finagle factors of you men will be calculated. The -fifth stage is quite simple; it will perform the necessary division and -multiplication. The sixth stage will extract the square root of the -product derived by the fifth. The next six stages of machinery contain -the variables of terrestrial behavior, which I and my colleagues -calculated from Earth texts. The other stages on the field, fifty-three -of them, will collate the results of the calculations of the first -twelve stages with our legal code and determine punishment. The final -product will appear at the sixty-seventh stage, represented as the -speed of rotation of a single shaft. The revolutions-per-time-interval -are decoded by a simple formula to determine the punishment to be -levied upon you. Doubtless, it will be some unpleasant form of death." - -Kim muttered that he wished that Martians had a bit more tact. - -Rhinklav'n waved a hairy arm toward his assistant who had remained -below in the Machine pit; and that Martian ran to the power house -to start the mercury-turbine engine that ran the Machine. With a -whistling that set the thin atmosphere trembling for miles around, the -turbine began to turn. - -The sightseers on the edge of the amphitheater wrapped up the scraps of -their lunches, replaced them in their _mal_-skin picnic hampers, and -stood up to watch the Machine. Kim and Barnaby paced up and down along -the edge of the bowl, looking down upon the mechanical cerebration -being performed by the huge Machine. With a smooth transfer of power -from one stage to the next, the first problem--the probable duration -of Klaggchallak's life when it had been interrupted by the jets of the -_Vulcan_--was solved, and the mechanism of the second stage began to -revolve. - -"They're seeing how long we can be expected to live, now," Captain -Barnaby commented. - -That problem fled through a mass of gears and cams; and the partial -solution, the sum of the two earthling's life expectancies divided by -that of the priest Klaggchallak, ran across a shaft to the third stage, -which would determine the old priest's value to the society of Mars. -On into the fourth stage the problem flowed, to combine all previous -factors with the earthlings' social value to Mars, a negative number. - -In a few moments the problem had progressed to the fifth stage of the -Machine, where the first steps of the 'finagle factor' were solved. The -product, a negative number as could be seen by the reversed rotation of -the main shaft, bowed into the sixth stage, which was to extract square -root. - - * * * * * - -The turbine howled protest as it was forced to overcome the inertia of -the sixth stage; but a governor at the input stage held the shaft-speed -constant. The seventh stage, all ready for the problem when it should -appear from the sixth, held all the computations of the first four -stages in its smoothly-turning entrails. The initial portion of the -sixth stage began to move slowly. - -There was a sudden, grating noise as the feed-in gear of the fifth -stage came in contact with a solution gear of the sixth which refused -to move. The whine of the mercury-turbine engine was shaking the ground -beneath the two officers' feet now. - -As the Martian technicians and picnickers looked on in amazement, -the shaft between the fifth stage and the sixth began to twist like -a stick of moist putty. The sixth stage strained and shuddered, then -followed the twisting shaft over, tearing its moorings from the ground -and smashing upside-down. The seventh stage entered into the chaos, -ripping out anchors of steel-in-concrete and slamming onto its side. -In a moment all the machines in the bowl were muttering and straining -against the earth. Rhinklav'n ran to the stairway that led down into -the pit. In the adobe powerhouse the mercury engine was whirling at -twenty times its optimum rate, tearing the atmosphere with the sound of -its screaming power. There was the rattle of shrapnel exploding within -the walls of the powerhouse as the turbine threw off the restrainment -of its governor. The whole field within the bowl was a mass of -twitching clockwork, shaken by the final stormings of the suicidal -turbine. Bars of shining steel twisted and snapped, gear teeth flew -singing through the thin air. The final chain of stages tore itself -loose from anchoring and crashed to its side. There was a final roar of -defiance from the turbine, and the powerhouse walls dissolved before -an out-rushing blast of superheated mercury. Kim and Barnaby threw -themselves to the ground as the din increased for a moment, and the -Martian sightseers sought refuge behind nearby buildings. Suddenly, the -Machine was silent, except for the tinkle of scraps of metal falling to -the cement. - -[Illustration: _Bars of shining steel twisted and snapped, gear teeth -flew singing through the thin air...._] - -"Looks as though we were too much for judge, jury, and D.A.," Kim -murmured into his radiophone. Barnaby nodded, then cautiously climbed -to his feet. - -Rhinklav'n climbed back up the stairway to the brink of the -amphitheater-become-junkyard. He shoved his way through the questioning -crowd of Martian sightseers without a word. "Looks like he's going to -cry," Lieutenant Kim commented into his radiophone. True, Rhinklav'n's -nose-flaps were hanging limply down below his chin, a sure sign of -great emotion in a Martian. - -Rhinklav'n faced Captain Barnaby wordlessly for a moment. "You may -leave now," he said at last. The Martian turned his back on the captain -to look down again on the wreck that had been his beloved Machine. - - * * * * * - -The two EXTS officers wandered about Klamugra, the cynosure of all -Martian eyes, though no one tried to stop them or ask them questions. -Lieutenant Kim finally spotted a radio tower jutting up above the -red adobe buildings. Hurrying in the direction of the tower, Kim and -Barnaby found the Klamugra headquarters of the Extraterrestrial Service. - -Colonel Montgomery jumped to his feet as they came in, a look of bald -disbelief on his face. "Man, I'm glad to see you two! I was about to -storm out like a knight in shiny armor and save you from the Marties." -He waved his hand toward the helmet and rifle lying on his typewriter -table--"If I'd gotten there too late, I'd have ruptured interplanetary -friendship for sure!"--and indicated a decanter on his desk. "Have -some: that's Edinbourgh scotch, not Los Angeles moon-dew. Tell me why -I happen to be talking to you now instead of making up a couple of -packages for your next-of-kin." - -"We wrecked their damn Machine," Kim said happily, dropping his helmet -and gauntlets to the floor and measuring out several fingers of the -colonel's scotch into his ration can. - -"To be a bit more accurate," Captain Barnaby corrected, "we drove the -Machine insane." He poured himself a stiff shot of scotch and downed it -with appreciation. - -"Our personalities are so complex that the Machine blew up all over -the landscape when it tried to understand them," Kim said. He dragged -a chair out from behind the typewriter table and sat down, carefully -balancing the ration can. - -"It's rather as though we should set our electronic astrogator to work -on a problem with three variables in five dimensions, rather than in -four," Captain Barnaby explained. "As you told us, the Machine was a -mechanical-analogus calculator. It can multiply, divide, add, square -and cube, and extract roots. It performs these operations by coding -numbers into mechanical relationships." - -"Just a big adding machine," Kim commented irreverently. - -"And our 'finagle factor' was too much for a mechanical system." -Captain Barnaby briefly explained to the colonel how he and Kim had -induced Rhinklav'n to add their invented factor to the Machine's setup. -"You see, the finagle factor resolved itself into the square root of a -negative number. An electronic calculator, like our astrogator, could -extract the root of a minus-number: 'imaginary' numbers of this sort -are implicit in its circuit. The Martian Machine out there couldn't do -this though. Since there is no mechanical analogue for an imaginary -number, the Machine tried to extract the square root of our finagle -factor in the same manner in which it would attempt to extract the root -of a real number." - -Kim drained, his ration can neatly and remarked, "The Machine couldn't -do what it had to. All the power of the turbine was thrown into the -root extracting system, which wouldn't revolve. So the Machine went -nuts, pardon me, sir, and blew its top. Wrecked the power source and -all sixty-seven stages. With the square root of minus one, we busted -up a Machine half a million years old." - -"What now?" Colonel Montgomery asked, rhetorically. - -Captain Barnaby studied the bottom of his ration can a moment. "Well, -sir, Rhinklav'n was more puzzled, than angered. He wanted to judge -humans not out of malice, but from a genuine scientific curiosity. He -wanted to see how the Machine would act with an alien problem. His -Machine is too badly broken-up ever to repair. He'll have to find -another method of judging criminals, first of all. Martian society is -founded on strict law." - -"Just a moment." The colonel got up from his desk and went down the -hall to a door marked "Judge Advocate General's Department, EXTS." He -returned with a heavy book, bound between khaki-board covers. "We'll -give this book to Rhinklav'n, and you gentlemen may return to the -Denver Joint." - -"Dive, sir," Kim corrected. - -"Yes, Lieutenant." Colonel Montgomery handed the big book to Captain -Barnaby. 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Lang</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Release Date: February 26, 2021 [eBook #64640]</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Language: English</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Character set encoding: UTF-8</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Produced by: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net</div> - -<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MACHINE OF KLAMUGRA ***</div> - -<div class="titlepage"> - -<h1>Machine of KLAMUGRA</h1> - -<h2>By Allen K. Lang</h2> - -<p>Captain Barnaby and Lieutenant Teajun stood<br /> -at the brink of that vast stone amphitheater,<br /> -staring wonderingly down at half-an-acre of<br /> -gadget. This glittering mass of million-year<br /> -clockwork was the Machine ... and soon it was<br /> -to judge them for their crime against Mars!</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Planet Stories November 1950.<br /> -Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that<br /> -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Klaggchallak, his fur nose-flaps pulled tight against his nostrils, -stumbled up to the gleaming pinnacle of steel that seemed to offer -shelter against the night. He felt a dust-storm gathering in the -west, and knew that not even the tough skin of a Martian priest could -withstand the angry whippings of sand lashed up by the wind-warlocks of -the desert.</p> - -<p>The old priest drew a tiny, folded <i>mal</i>-skin tent from his back-pack. -Without haste, for he knew that the elder gods of Mars were watching -his safety, Klaggchallak pitched the tent against the west stabilizer -of the rocket, drawing the tough hide down to form a floor-flap and -fastening it to the steel of the stabilizer with tough <i>mal</i>-hoof glue, -which would hold fast in the fiercest winds of Mars. He looked for the -sun and found it low in the evening sky, then crawled leisurely into -the yurt, pulling the door-flap down after him and gluing it to the -floor. He had for himself a secure cocoon into which the sand-devils -could not force their probing fingers. Before he slept, the old -priest fingered his beads, reciting his evening invocation to various -benevolent and protective gods.</p> - -<p>The falling sun threw a dancing star against the hull of the ship -standing tall in its tail-chocks. A bewildering wail, the banshee-call -of "Danger; ship jetting off!" sounded; but Klaggchallak slept on, -hearing through his dreams only the howling of the wind.</p> - -<p>Sixty seconds later, as prescribed in the General Regulations of the -Extraterrestrial Service, a second sound began, that most fearful of -noises, the sirening of the rocket exhaust. The Martian in his skin -tent wakened and felt fear gnaw at his bones; fear induced by subsonic -tremors from the rocket blast. Klaggchallak reached for his beads as -the heat soaked into his thick, wrinkled skin.</p> - -<p>In a moment the floor sagged beneath him. With the <i>mal</i>-skin pouch -dangling ridiculously from its tail assembly, the EXTS rocket <i>Vulcan</i> -rose with great gentleness from its tail-chocks, pushed up on its -spraying jets.</p> - -<p>Four seconds later the ship was a ruby flame above the low hills. Eight -seconds later a charred bipod, a bifurcated cinder, tumbled down from -space to strike near the jetoff field, where the <i>Vulcan's</i> tail-chocks -glowed dull red and the blackened ground smoldered. A moment later a -bracelet of blast-welded beads tumbled down from the sky, falling near -the carbon hulk that a few seconds before had been Klaggchallak, a -Martian priest great in wisdom and in honor among his people.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Captain Jan Barnaby and Lieutenant Kim Teajun of the Extraterrestrial -Service stood before the Board of Inquiry at Denver, D. F. The -President of the Board, a Chief Commander's star-on-silver gleaming at -his right collar point, opened the proceedings:</p> - -<p>"The military rocket <i>Vulcan</i>, EXTS light cruiser, is accused by -the Martian authorities of causing the death of one Klaggchallak, a -priest. They further claim that the death of Klaggchallak was caused -by criminal negligence on the part of the pilot and co-pilot of the -rocket, Captain Jan Barnaby and Lieutenant Kim Teajun, respectively. -Such neglect being within the definition of murder in the Martian legal -code, the Judging Authority of Mars demands that we deliver these two -men to them for trial and eventual punishment."</p> - -<p>The Commander stroked his grey hair thoughtfully as he looked up -from his report to the two unhappy officers before him. "At ease, -gentlemen." Barnaby and Teajun slumped. "While I'm inclined to agree -with you two that Klaggchallak's frying was his own fool fault, I must -say that you picked a damned poor time to become the instruments of his -immolation. We had hoped to establish an extra-territoriality agreement -with Mars, but the death of old Klaggchallak puts that out of the -question. To further Martian tranquility, you men will have to return -to Mars and face the Judging Authority there. If my feelings were all -that is at stake, gentlemen, I'd tell the Marties to go trippingly to -hell, and keep you here on Earth. But to do this would mean we'd be -forced to abandon our bases and mines and surveys on all Mars. We'd be -giving our European competitors a clear field." The Commander folded -the report neatly, once and again. "Captain Barnaby and Lieutenant Kim, -you'll be on the next Mars-ward ship. We can't help you if you're -convicted by our fuzzy friends. You'll have to stay there and take -whatever punishment they demand."</p> - -<p>Kim was remembering a scene he and Barnaby had witnessed at Klamugra, -the seat of the Martian Judging Authority. A Martian, convicted of -murder, was being executed atop a high metal platform. A large portion -of the city's population was gathered before the platform, watching the -edifying spectacle of a fellow-Martian dying with horrifying slowness -as the chocks of a vise pressed into his skull. They were bearcats for -gladiatorial amusement.</p> - -<p>"Do you gentlemen have any questions?"</p> - -<p>Lieutenant Kim glanced at Captain Barnaby, then spoke. "Yes, sir. I'd -like to know how long we're going to let the Marties push us around -this way. Thirteen Martian priests are on our payroll, just because -they demand it. We've got to stay five kilometers away from their -cities, or pay a five-hundred credit fine. We can't spit without -special permission from the Grand Council of Mars. We don't think like -they do; why should we submit to being judged by their million-year-old -laws? In all respect, sir, why does our Service act so weak?"</p> - -<p>The Commander made a pyramid of thumbs and forefingers, and considered -it. "Lieutenant Kim, I've been asking myself that question for the last -ten years. We've had to pay tribute to gain the Marties' permission to -stay on their god-forsaken planet. That tribute represents half the -operating expense of the Martian Department of the Service, credits -that should be spent on new ships and more men. We've behaved like a -bunch of patsies ever since von Munger and Ley landed on Mars.</p> - -<p>"Still, we're all soldiers, and we must follow regulations. We mustn't -disturb the indigenous population on Mars; that's Regulation 'A-1.' -If our policies grow distasteful to the Marties, they may call in the -Europeans to take our place. We wouldn't like that. It's bad form to -admit it, gentlemen, but I'm ashamed to give you this order. You're -to jet off for Mars tomorrow morning; and on arrival at Klamugra, -to deliver yourselves over to the Martian Judging Authority." The -Commander rapped his gavel and stood; the two officers before the Board -snapped to attention. "Board of Inquiry dismissed."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Fully aware that tomorrow's jetoff would multiply by eight the -hangovers they were breeding, Captain Barnaby and Lieutenant Kim sat -that evening in the Denver Dive, alternating drinks of European vodka -with rounds of California moon-dew. As Kim said: "Drink as much as you -like, Barnaby; we're not driving in the morning."</p> - -<p>"Tell me," Barnaby demanded of his co-pilot, "what you're thinking of, -you Martie-roasting fiend of a Korean."</p> - -<p>"I was considering the memory of the 'shlunk!' that Martian murderer's -skull made when it finally gave in, that day at Klamugra. Do you -remember, hard-headed Yankee?" Kim's eyes followed the blonde ecdysiast -across the stage more from habit than present interest.</p> - -<p>"Why did you have to remember that? 'Shlunk!'—ugh!"</p> - -<p>"We're going to have to squirm out of this, Barnaby-<i>sunsang</i>," Kim -said. "We'll have to beat that rap at Klamugra. It's not that I wish to -avoid putting my head in a vise; it's only that it hurts me to see the -Extraterrestrial Service made a monkey of this way. In a way it will -even be a shame if we get off. Think of all the Marties who will miss -the opportunity to see your punkin head smashed."</p> - -<p>"You orientals have noble souls, Kim."</p> - -<p>The blonde stripper, having uncovered as much of herself as she could -without resorting to dissection, jumped down from the stage and walked -over to the two EXTS officers. "Would you gentlemen like to buy me a -drink?" she asked.</p> - -<p>Kim's eyes roved abroad in a brief anatomy lesson, but Barnaby said, -"I'll buy you one a couple of weeks from now, if I'm not laid up -somewhere with a splitting headache." He stood unsteadily and tossed a -ten-credit certificate on the table. "If you're really thirsty, get a -drink out of that."</p> - -<p>Kim reluctantly followed his superior officer from the bar. At the door -he turned and called back to the blonde, "Don't catch cold, child. I'll -be back."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The dawn jetoff was miserable, as jetoffs always are. Four days brought -the ship within falling-distance of Mars; soon the jets thundered as it -backed into a pocket of hills outside Klamugra. The air-pumps hammered -to bring the air pressure inside the hull gradually down to that of -the outside, so that instruments and equipment wouldn't be subjected -to a sudden lowering of pressure. The men inside the ship slipped -plastic helmets over their heads, checked the tiny air-pumps on their -shoulders, and drew on heavy gloves and boots.</p> - -<p>When the port swung open Kim and Barnaby climbed down the ladder to the -blast-blackened sand. The sergeant of EXTS Provost Marshall who had -accompanied them walked with the officers to a hill overlooking the -ancient Martian city of Klamugra, which stood on a terrace about five -kilometers to the north. The red adobe walls of the city, testimony -of the ancient days when Mars had enough water to allow its use for -brick-making, blended with the distance to seem a part of the red -desert sand.</p> - -<p>A cloud of steam and dust appeared between the hill where they stood -and the city. Captain Barnaby un-leathered his binoculars and pressed -them to the eyepieces of his helmet, and made out a hopping jeep, its -top enclosed in plastic and a trio of supercharger coils poking through -the sides of the hood. Clouds of steam followed the jeep as its exhaust -streamed out into the chilly air.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>In a moment the jeep spun up the hill and ground to a halt. There -was a pause as the men inside the jeep fitted their helmets on their -shoulders, checked their air-pumps, and drew on their gauntlets. Then -the plastic bubble lifted back, a sergeant jumped out from under the -steering wheel and saluted, and a Colonel, EXTS Intelligence, walked -up to Captain Barnaby and Lieutenant Kim. "Gentlemen," he said, "I'm -Colonel Lee Montgomery, Commanding Officer, Third Sector. It is my -unpleasant duty to turn you over to the Chief Technician of the Martian -Judging Authority, who is Rhinklav'n, here."</p> - -<p>At these words a tall Martian unfolded himself from the back seat -of the jeep. He climbed out and bowed before Captain Barnaby. "I am -Rhinklav'n, Captain." The thick fur nose-flaps, looking like ear-muffs -pulled across his muzzle, muffled Rhinklav'n's high-pitched voice so -that it gave the effect of coming from the bottom of a rain barrel. -"You are to accompany me to Klamugra to be judged by the Machine, of -which I am the Honored First Technician."</p> - -<p>Barnaby and Kim bowed slightly to acknowledge Rhinklav'n, then crawled -into the back seat of the jeep, next to Colonel Montgomery.</p> - -<p>Rhinklav'n and the sergeant sat up front. The sergeant pushed a button -on the instrument panel, and the plastic top of the jeep dropped down -to cover them. As the engine started, the jeep's air-pump drew in air -until the atmosphere was thick enough for human lungs. The Martian -squirmed uncomfortably in the heavy air while his human companions -threw off their helmets. Lieutenant Kim gratefully drew a deep breath -of air, and regretted it immediately. What with the million-year water -shortage the Martians had lost even the word for bath. Besides, the -most popular article of Martian cuisine is a bulb strikingly similar -to the terrestrial garlic plant. Captain Barnaby turned to Kim. "Mars -has a distinguished atmosphere, hasn't it?" He spoke in English, rather -than in the Esperanto lingua-franca of space.</p> - -<p>"Indeed it has," Kim agreed. "What was old fuzz-face up there talking -about when he spoke of 'the Machine,' Colonel?"</p> - -<p>"The law of Mars is the most rigidly systematized in the solar system," -Colonel Montgomery replied. "Several millions of years ago, a bright -Martie got the idea that it was unwise to trust mortal judges with -a problem so important as the sentencing of criminals. So he called -in a lot of mechanics—ancient Mars had some pretty fair engineers, -though they never discovered electricity—and had them build a -judging-machine. Since the climate is right and the machine was built -of a stainless steel, it's still here and still being used. It's an -enormous thing; spreads over half-an-acre in a big amphitheatre in the -center of town. It's an analogue computer, rather clumsy by terrestrial -standards, but nevertheless well-built. You know the principles of -analogue calculators. Instead of working with coded, position-valued -impulses, like the electronic astrogator on our rockets, the mechanical -machines solve problems by making use of the physical analogies between -cogs and gears and differentials."</p> - -<p>"Do you mean that we're going to be punished or set free by a bunch of -clockwork, colonel?" Kim asked.</p> - -<p>"In a way, yes. The Machine is a most impersonal judge. That fact won't -help you, though. Martian legal code is strict about killing, there -being some thirty-odd degrees of murder, ranging in seriousness from a -'simple homicide to secure a mate,' the punishment for which is death -by dehydration, most often; to 'killing to secure for oneself material -benefits,' for which there exist more subtle forms of death by torture."</p> - -<p>"Like getting a small-head-size in a vise?" Captain Barnaby grunted.</p> - -<p>"That's the usual punishment for murder in the seventeenth degree, -where the crime is usually 'killing for spiritual advancement.' You -see, each crime is given special study by the Machine. A great many -factors are fed in, collated with certain constants within the Machine, -processed through several dozen stages, and finally combined into a -single number, which represents the punishment called for. By the way," -the colonel studied the back of Rhinklav'n's head, "no consideration -of the truthfulness of the 'defendant' is entered into the Machine. It -is presumed that should a man say that he did not commit a crime, he -didn't; if he did, he'd admit it. Martians have a peculiar character -defect that prevents them from lying."</p> - -<p>"A defect from which we humans are fortunately free," Kim grinned.</p> - -<p>"That's no out," Colonel Montgomery countered. "They have witnesses who -saw Klaggchallak fry. Besides, we prefer to have the mass of Marties -ignorant of the average earthling's penchant for prevarication. It -saves the Service a lot of money not to have to prove anything it tells -our hairy hosts out here."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The jeep hit the first of the series of low terraces which set the -city of Klamugra up from the surrounding desert plains, and the little -car bounced high off the sand. Colonel Montgomery looked startled, as -though he'd just remembered something. "You know, in my ethnological -fervor I didn't realize what you two men are in for. Cosmos! I'm -practically delivering you up as human sacrifices!"</p> - -<p>"We came to that conclusion five days ago, colonel," Lieutenant Kim -dryly observed.</p> - -<p>"I can see what the Fleet Commander meant when he said that he was -giving me 'a most unpleasant assignment.' Hell, I don't think the -Machine is able to give a judgment of 'not guilty'." Colonel Montgomery -gazed toward the city they were approaching. "We've got to turn you -in. We can't risk a blowup with the Martian Grand Council. There are -rumors that ..." the colonel glanced again with suspicion at the back -of Rhinklav'n's hairy neck, as though suspecting that the Martian might -be able to puzzle out the meaning of their conversation, though it was -in English. "There are rumors that the -artiansMay have an agent among -the -ussiansRay. We can't risk having the borsch-eaters more popular -out here than the Western Powers." The jeep bounded up the last of the -terraces and through an opening in the city wall. The adobe buildings -raced past, and with a final bound the jeep came to the edge of the -huge, circular bowl which held the Machine.</p> - -<p>"There's your judge," Colonel Montgomery said, speaking in Esperanto -again. "I haven't much hope to offer you. For one thing, you're the -first humans ever to be judged by the Machine."</p> - -<p>The men picked up their helmets and air-pumps and adjusted them on -their shoulders. Rhinklav'n drew his furry nostril-flaps down into -place against the sudden change in pressure. The plastic top of the -jeep flew back on its springs and the men climbed out, stretching their -cramped muscles. The radiophones in the helmets buzzed, and the colonel -gave Captain Barnaby a last word. "I want to impress you with the fact -that the Service cannot protect you, from this moment onward. If you -escape being killed it must be on your own merits. And don't start -shooting Marties—won't do you a bit of good. There's a lot at stake -for Earth here. Good luck, men!" Colonel Montgomery saluted, and he and -his sergeant jumped back in the jeep, slammed the top down, and whirled -away.</p> - -<p>Rhinklav'n turned to the two EXTS officers. "Gentlemen, I've assigned -you quarters here, near the Machine. Will you follow me?" Kim and -Barnaby followed the Martian a short distance from the edge of the -amphitheater to a lone adobe building, one story high and about ten -meters square. "Here are your quarters, where you'll stay tonight. Your -judging is set for tomorrow morning."</p> - -<p>Captain Barnaby glanced into the building and was surprised to see -that it closed with an airlock, had terrestrial canned foods on -neat shelves, and had regular Service cots in place of the rough -<i>mal</i>-leather mats that the Martians slept on. "It was good of you to -go to all this trouble just for myself and Lieutenant Kim, Rhinklav'n," -the Captain said.</p> - -<p>The Martian paused at the door. "It's not just for you, Captain. Five -other terrestrials have committed crimes of various proportions within -the last few weeks. They will also be tried here, after your case is -disposed of." Rhinklav'n left, considerately closing the airlock door -and starting the pump on his way out.</p> - -<p>Lieutenant Kim took a can of "B" ration beans down from the shelf and -thoughtfully began to open it with his Service knife. "Captain," he -said, "this sort of thing could drive our Service from Mars. If the -Marties consider it their right to judge every Earthling who runs a -jeep into a farmer's <i>mal</i> or lands half a meter too near one of their -cities, we won't have a man on the planet in a couple of years."</p> - -<p>"Kim, we're precedents."</p> - -<p>"What do you mean, Yankee?"</p> - -<p>"If the Marties succeed in convicting us of murder in some unheard-of -degree by using that overgrown Erector Set of theirs, we'll be only -the first two of a long string of EXTServicemen to be executed under -Mars law. We can't let them do it." Captain Barnaby paused a moment -to pour himself out a plateful of beans. "Kim, what was that process -you used to rely on back in EXTS Academy in Denver? The one that gave -you the right answers after you found that your first solutions to our -astrogation problems were a few hundred thousand kilometers off?"</p> - -<p>Kim stopped chewing for a moment in surprise. "You mean that you got -through the Academy without using the 'finagle factor'? No wonder you -made captain so soon. It's simple: I'd look up the right answer in the -Service charts, find by what factor my solution was off, and introduce -that factor into my next calculation, making it inconspicuous under a -lot of mathematical camouflage. Don't bawl me out about it, Barny; I -just couldn't see letting my extracurricular activities suffer for my -schoolwork."</p> - -<p>"Yes, you did a lot of your studying at the Denver Dive. No matter, -little man. Eat hearty and get some sleep." Barnaby stirred his beans -thoughtfully. "We've got a big day ahead of us tomorrow."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Early the next morning a subordinate technician of the Machine hammered -on the airlock. The two terrestrials pulled on their heavy jackets, fur -boots, and gauntlets, started the little air-pumps on their shoulders, -and opened the lock. "The honored First Technician of the Machine -invites your presence at your trial, which is to begin very soon," the -Martian said, speaking halting Esperanto. Kim and Barnaby followed him -to the edge of the Machine bowl. There had been several changes made -during the night. An elevated platform had been set up, identical to -the one used in the bloody execution they'd witnessed. About twenty -Martians were clustered around the Machine, some of them making -last-minute adjustments in the mechanism; others, evidently sightseers, -gazing curiously at the two principals in the trial.</p> - -<p>Rhinklav'n was waiting, his nose-flaps drawn over his nostrils to keep -the cold morning air from cutting into his lungs. "I am pleased that -you come," he said. "The Machine is fully assembled for your problem." -He pointed down toward the Machine, a vast cluster of separate stages -connected by rods. "On the far right, in that small building, is the -power source of the Machine, a mercury-turbine engine. We can't spare -the water to make steam, you know. The first stage contains the Martian -actuarial tables, the second has the actuarial system for determining -the probable life-spans of you two Earthlings. That's without taking -into consideration the probability that you two will be executed as a -result of the judgement of the Machine."</p> - -<p>Lieutenant Kim nodded. "Most ingenious. But I'm afraid that there's a -factor that you've omitted."</p> - -<p>"We've made no factual error, Lieutenant," Rhinklav'n insisted. "The -value of the sage Klaggchallak is represented there—" he pointed to -the fourth stage, "and your social value to the people of Mars is here -represented." Rhinklav'n waved one mitten-like hand toward the fifth -stage. "If you'll examine that stage, you'll observe that your value is -negative: the shaft representing it revolves in a direction opposite to -that of the others. Yes, you'll surely be executed."</p> - -<p>Captain Barnaby nodded, as though the reiteration of the probability -of his early demise troubled him less than the philosophical question -he'd stumbled across. "Still, as my subordinate officer has said, -there's a factor which you seem to have omitted. In the terminology of -terrestrial psychometering, this quantity is called—what did you say -it was, Lieutenant Kim?"</p> - -<p>"The 'finagle factor,' sir."</p> - -<p>"Really?" Rhinklav'n asked, the light of scientific inquiry in his -eyes. "I thought I'd taken all the variables of Earthling physiology -and psychology into consideration when I set up the plans for the -trial. What are the mathematics of this 'finagle factor'?"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Captain Barnaby put one foot up on a connecting shaft, as though he -were in the Denver Dive, discussing the relative merits of two video -dancers. "As you've doubtless noticed in your extensive study of the -Terrestrial mind, Sir Honored First Technician of the Machine, we of -Earth place almost equal value on a man's intelligence and on his -financial standing as criteria of his worth."</p> - -<p>"Yes," Rhinklav'n mused, "I noticed your preoccupation with both -intelligence (a minor mental quality, by the way; far inferior to -spiritual insight or time-sense) and with the individual's possession -of Western Credits."</p> - -<p>"As I said," Captain Barnaby continued, "there exists a precise -formula, developed by the...."</p> - -<p>"By the Noyoudont Dentifrice Laboratories," Kim supplied.</p> - -<p>"Yes; their laboratories developed the mathematics of the finagle -factor. Briefly, it is this: the square root of the product of -Intelligence Quotient over one hundred times the number of credits the -individual has outstanding. Or, written algebraically:" Barnaby knelt -down and traced in the sand with his gloved index finger:</p> - -<p>√(IQ/100 x money in the bank)</p> - -<p>"Quite a simple equation, easily represented on the Machine," -Rhinklav'n observed. He called a subordinate technician to his side and -spoke to him in the clicking polysyllables of the Martian language. -Turning again to Captain Barnaby, he asked, "And what are the values of -'IQ' and 'Money in the Bank' for you and Lieutenant Kim?"</p> - -<p>"Our combined IQs total about 243. How many credits do you own, -Lieutenant Kim?"</p> - -<p>"Hell, sir; I've got more debts than credits."</p> - -<p>"Figure up your debts then, Lieutenant."</p> - -<p>Kim raised his right gauntlet, drew a pad of paper and a pencil from a -pocket at the back of his hand, and scribbled rapidly. "If we get out -of this, Captain, I'll owe about 1046 credits. Subtracting pay due for -the last semi-annual period, I owe 437 credits."</p> - -<p>"And I have debts totaling 600 credits," Captain Barnaby said -thoughtfully. He turned to Rhinklav'n. "The debts of myself and -Lieutenant Kim, Sir Honored First Technician of the Machine, total 1037 -Western Credits. Being debt, that's a negative number, of course."</p> - -<p>"Of course, Captain," Rhinklav'n agreed. "The Machine can handle any -sort of number, even a negative number. You noticed that your social -value to Mars was easily represented as a minus-number." Rhinklav'n -talked rapidly to his assistant and handed him the values of the -finagle factor, rewritten in Martian ideographs. He faced Captain -Barnaby again. "It will take us about an hour to enter this new factor -into the Machine," he said. "You'll not mind waiting?"</p> - -<p>"No, not at all," Barnaby murmured. He and Kim leaned against the -inside wall of the amphitheater, watching the Martian technicians hurry -about; they removed gears and replaced them with gears of another -ratio; they connected a stage consisting of eccentric cams strung on -shafts; and they installed a mass of machinery at the sixth stage, -where the operation of extracting square root was to take place. Kim, -comparing the heavy gears and levers of the Machine with the compact -tubes of his electronic astrogator, remarked, "It's like using a trip -hammer to crack a walnut."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>After a few minutes of watching, Kim and Barnaby became conscious of an -intruder within their helmets, a most unpleasant odor. They glanced up -to the edge of the bowl. The Martian sightseers were sitting up there, -dangling their legs above the Machine and utilizing the pause in the -proceedings to eat their picnic lunches. They were busily unwrapping -bundles of food from the <i>mal</i>-skin pouches hanging by their sides and -eating as they watched the technicians work over the Machine.</p> - -<p>One of the tourists, judging from his height a young male, threw a -small parcel toward Kim. The lieutenant picked it up and unwrapped it. -The stench of Martian garlic became unbearable as Kim stared at the -unidentifiable tidbit of meat the Martian had thrown him; the air-pump -on his shoulder drew the redolence into his helmet in such quantities -that Kim's eyes burned. He gestured to show that, while his every -instinct demanded that he eat the delicious morsel, he couldn't take -his helmet off to do so. With an elaborate pantomiming of sorrow, Kim -pitched the gift back up to the Martian boy.</p> - -<p>A few adjustments later the technicians filed up from the Machine pit. -Rhinklav'n walked over to the two EXTS officers. "If you gentlemen will -accompany me, we'll begin the trial at once."</p> - -<p>Kim and Barnaby walked together up the steps that led from the Machine, -then turned and looked down at the dozens of stages of complex -machinery, into which memory and intelligence of a sort had been built. -Rhinklav'n pointed toward the fifth and sixth stages. "It is there -that the combined finagle factors of you men will be calculated. The -fifth stage is quite simple; it will perform the necessary division and -multiplication. The sixth stage will extract the square root of the -product derived by the fifth. The next six stages of machinery contain -the variables of terrestrial behavior, which I and my colleagues -calculated from Earth texts. The other stages on the field, fifty-three -of them, will collate the results of the calculations of the first -twelve stages with our legal code and determine punishment. The final -product will appear at the sixty-seventh stage, represented as the -speed of rotation of a single shaft. The revolutions-per-time-interval -are decoded by a simple formula to determine the punishment to be -levied upon you. Doubtless, it will be some unpleasant form of death."</p> - -<p>Kim muttered that he wished that Martians had a bit more tact.</p> - -<p>Rhinklav'n waved a hairy arm toward his assistant who had remained -below in the Machine pit; and that Martian ran to the power house -to start the mercury-turbine engine that ran the Machine. With a -whistling that set the thin atmosphere trembling for miles around, the -turbine began to turn.</p> - -<p>The sightseers on the edge of the amphitheater wrapped up the scraps of -their lunches, replaced them in their <i>mal</i>-skin picnic hampers, and -stood up to watch the Machine. Kim and Barnaby paced up and down along -the edge of the bowl, looking down upon the mechanical cerebration -being performed by the huge Machine. With a smooth transfer of power -from one stage to the next, the first problem—the probable duration -of Klaggchallak's life when it had been interrupted by the jets of the -<i>Vulcan</i>—was solved, and the mechanism of the second stage began to -revolve.</p> - -<p>"They're seeing how long we can be expected to live, now," Captain -Barnaby commented.</p> - -<p>That problem fled through a mass of gears and cams; and the partial -solution, the sum of the two earthling's life expectancies divided by -that of the priest Klaggchallak, ran across a shaft to the third stage, -which would determine the old priest's value to the society of Mars. -On into the fourth stage the problem flowed, to combine all previous -factors with the earthlings' social value to Mars, a negative number.</p> - -<p>In a few moments the problem had progressed to the fifth stage of the -Machine, where the first steps of the 'finagle factor' were solved. The -product, a negative number as could be seen by the reversed rotation of -the main shaft, bowed into the sixth stage, which was to extract square -root.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The turbine howled protest as it was forced to overcome the inertia of -the sixth stage; but a governor at the input stage held the shaft-speed -constant. The seventh stage, all ready for the problem when it should -appear from the sixth, held all the computations of the first four -stages in its smoothly-turning entrails. The initial portion of the -sixth stage began to move slowly.</p> - -<p>There was a sudden, grating noise as the feed-in gear of the fifth -stage came in contact with a solution gear of the sixth which refused -to move. The whine of the mercury-turbine engine was shaking the ground -beneath the two officers' feet now.</p> - -<p>As the Martian technicians and picnickers looked on in amazement, -the shaft between the fifth stage and the sixth began to twist like -a stick of moist putty. The sixth stage strained and shuddered, then -followed the twisting shaft over, tearing its moorings from the ground -and smashing upside-down. The seventh stage entered into the chaos, -ripping out anchors of steel-in-concrete and slamming onto its side. -In a moment all the machines in the bowl were muttering and straining -against the earth. Rhinklav'n ran to the stairway that led down into -the pit. In the adobe powerhouse the mercury engine was whirling at -twenty times its optimum rate, tearing the atmosphere with the sound of -its screaming power. There was the rattle of shrapnel exploding within -the walls of the powerhouse as the turbine threw off the restrainment -of its governor. The whole field within the bowl was a mass of -twitching clockwork, shaken by the final stormings of the suicidal -turbine. Bars of shining steel twisted and snapped, gear teeth flew -singing through the thin air. The final chain of stages tore itself -loose from anchoring and crashed to its side. There was a final roar of -defiance from the turbine, and the powerhouse walls dissolved before -an out-rushing blast of superheated mercury. Kim and Barnaby threw -themselves to the ground as the din increased for a moment, and the -Martian sightseers sought refuge behind nearby buildings. Suddenly, the -Machine was silent, except for the tinkle of scraps of metal falling to -the cement.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" alt=""/> - <div class="caption"> - <p><i>Bars of shining steel twisted and snapped, gear teeth flew singing through the thin air....</i></p> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Looks as though we were too much for judge, jury, and D.A.," Kim -murmured into his radiophone. Barnaby nodded, then cautiously climbed -to his feet.</p> - -<p>Rhinklav'n climbed back up the stairway to the brink of the -amphitheater-become-junkyard. He shoved his way through the questioning -crowd of Martian sightseers without a word. "Looks like he's going to -cry," Lieutenant Kim commented into his radiophone. True, Rhinklav'n's -nose-flaps were hanging limply down below his chin, a sure sign of -great emotion in a Martian.</p> - -<p>Rhinklav'n faced Captain Barnaby wordlessly for a moment. "You may -leave now," he said at last. The Martian turned his back on the captain -to look down again on the wreck that had been his beloved Machine.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The two EXTS officers wandered about Klamugra, the cynosure of all -Martian eyes, though no one tried to stop them or ask them questions. -Lieutenant Kim finally spotted a radio tower jutting up above the -red adobe buildings. Hurrying in the direction of the tower, Kim and -Barnaby found the Klamugra headquarters of the Extraterrestrial Service.</p> - -<p>Colonel Montgomery jumped to his feet as they came in, a look of bald -disbelief on his face. "Man, I'm glad to see you two! I was about to -storm out like a knight in shiny armor and save you from the Marties." -He waved his hand toward the helmet and rifle lying on his typewriter -table—"If I'd gotten there too late, I'd have ruptured interplanetary -friendship for sure!"—and indicated a decanter on his desk. "Have -some: that's Edinbourgh scotch, not Los Angeles moon-dew. Tell me why -I happen to be talking to you now instead of making up a couple of -packages for your next-of-kin."</p> - -<p>"We wrecked their damn Machine," Kim said happily, dropping his helmet -and gauntlets to the floor and measuring out several fingers of the -colonel's scotch into his ration can.</p> - -<p>"To be a bit more accurate," Captain Barnaby corrected, "we drove the -Machine insane." He poured himself a stiff shot of scotch and downed it -with appreciation.</p> - -<p>"Our personalities are so complex that the Machine blew up all over -the landscape when it tried to understand them," Kim said. He dragged -a chair out from behind the typewriter table and sat down, carefully -balancing the ration can.</p> - -<p>"It's rather as though we should set our electronic astrogator to work -on a problem with three variables in five dimensions, rather than in -four," Captain Barnaby explained. "As you told us, the Machine was a -mechanical-analogus calculator. It can multiply, divide, add, square -and cube, and extract roots. It performs these operations by coding -numbers into mechanical relationships."</p> - -<p>"Just a big adding machine," Kim commented irreverently.</p> - -<p>"And our 'finagle factor' was too much for a mechanical system." -Captain Barnaby briefly explained to the colonel how he and Kim had -induced Rhinklav'n to add their invented factor to the Machine's setup. -"You see, the finagle factor resolved itself into the square root of a -negative number. An electronic calculator, like our astrogator, could -extract the root of a minus-number: 'imaginary' numbers of this sort -are implicit in its circuit. The Martian Machine out there couldn't do -this though. Since there is no mechanical analogue for an imaginary -number, the Machine tried to extract the square root of our finagle -factor in the same manner in which it would attempt to extract the root -of a real number."</p> - -<p>Kim drained, his ration can neatly and remarked, "The Machine couldn't -do what it had to. All the power of the turbine was thrown into the -root extracting system, which wouldn't revolve. So the Machine went -nuts, pardon me, sir, and blew its top. Wrecked the power source and -all sixty-seven stages. With the square root of minus one, we busted -up a Machine half a million years old."</p> - -<p>"What now?" Colonel Montgomery asked, rhetorically.</p> - -<p>Captain Barnaby studied the bottom of his ration can a moment. "Well, -sir, Rhinklav'n was more puzzled, than angered. He wanted to judge -humans not out of malice, but from a genuine scientific curiosity. He -wanted to see how the Machine would act with an alien problem. His -Machine is too badly broken-up ever to repair. He'll have to find -another method of judging criminals, first of all. Martian society is -founded on strict law."</p> - -<p>"Just a moment." The colonel got up from his desk and went down the -hall to a door marked "Judge Advocate General's Department, EXTS." He -returned with a heavy book, bound between khaki-board covers. "We'll -give this book to Rhinklav'n, and you gentlemen may return to the -Denver Joint."</p> - -<p>"Dive, sir," Kim corrected.</p> - -<p>"Yes, Lieutenant." Colonel Montgomery handed the big book to Captain -Barnaby. 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