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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: The Mannion Court-Martial - -Author: Randall Garrett - -Release Date: May 18, 2021 [eBook #65370] - -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 THE MANNION COURT-MARTIAL *** - - - - - The Mannion Court-Martial - - By Randall Garrett - - Why would a Space Officer lead an android - rebellion? Even Lieut. Mannion believed he was - guilty as they gave him the supreme penalty.... - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy - October 1957 - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -Lieut. Dan Mannion of the Earth Space Patrol stood in the prisoner's -dock in the courtroom, gripping the rail of his cubicle so hard his -fingers hurt. - -Comdr. Edward Harkness of the SP, who was presiding, glared at him -sternly. "Lieutenant Mannion, the charges against you are severe. You -face the risk of total mnemonic erasure if found guilty. Is there -anything you care to say in your own defense before we proceed with the -trial?" - -Mannion glanced around the military courtroom, seeing the pale, tense, -anxious face of his wife Virginia, the stern countenance of Dubrow, -his former commanding officer, the interested eyes of half a hundred -onlookers. - -"No," he said. His voice was thin and dry. "There's nothing I can say. -Nothing at all." - -He saw Virginia's pleading eyes. She was telling him silently, -_Please, Dan. Tell them you're innocent. At least put up a defense!_ - -"Call the witness," Commander Harkness ordered. - -"Base Commandant Lee Dubrow will please take the witness stand." - -While Dubrow was being sworn in, Mannion studied him. His former -commander on the Iapetus base was a tall, icy-faced man with -close-cropped gray hair and a stiff military mustache. Mannion had -never been particularly friendly with his commanding officer. - -"Commander Dubrow, will you relate the events leading up to Lieutenant -Mannion's actions in the Android Rebellion?" - -Dubrow cleared his throat. "Very well. As you know, the Space Patrol -established its base on Iapetus last year--no, two years ago, at the -end of 2365--as part of its program of preparing Saturn's moons for -colonization." - -"How many members of the patrol were with you?" - -"Fifteen, altogether. I was in command, naturally, and for most of the -period we were there Lieutenant Mannion was my second-in-command." - -"Isn't it fairly unusual for a Lieutenant to hold such a high -position?" the prosecutor asked. - -"Major Dunphy was killed by a rebellious android seven weeks after -we arrived," Dubrow said. "Lieutenant Mannion was the next highest -ranking officer in my squadron and he took over." - -"How many androids did you have with you?" - -"Over a hundred," said Dubrow. "It was quite a time we had when they -mutinied." - -"Had you any knowledge of the mutiny beforehand?" - -"No." - -"Did any member of your staff know about the mutiny before it took -place?" - -"Yes." - -"Who?" - -"Lieutenant Mannion. He was in conspiracy with VZ-1972, the ring-leader -of the mutiny." - - * * * * * - -Mannion felt his face go bright red. He wanted to stand up and shout, -"That's a lie! I never knew anything about the mutiny!" - -But he couldn't. Somewhere in the back of his mind lay a shadow of -doubt. He could not remember anything that had happened at the time of -the mutiny--and perhaps he had--perhaps-- - -The judge said, "Tell us about Lieutenant Mannion's part in the mutiny." - -"Yes, sir. The first we knew about it was on the morning of November -9, 2366, when the androids we used to keep the atmosphere-generators -running refused to perform their regular tasks. I ordered Lieutenant -Mannion to go outside and discover what the trouble was. He refused. I -ordered him a second time, and he struck me and threw open the airlock. -All of the androids rushed in." - -"What happened then?" - -"I found myself wrestling with Lieutenant Mannion while the androids -destroyed all of the Project's equipment and apparatus. In the struggle -all 12 of my men were killed by the androids. Finally I succeeded -in subduing Lieutenant Mannion and bringing the androids back under -control--" - -"How was that done?" - -"The androids respond automatically to a direct command from the -superior officer, no matter what they're doing. Had I been free to give -that command the mutiny would never have taken place. But Lieutenant -Mannion prevented me from giving the command until it was too late. -All of our men were dead and the Project set back more than a year. -I placed Lieutenant Mannion under detention, put the androids in -permafreeze, and returned to Earth. And here I am." - -"Is that the extent of your testimony?" - -"It is." - -"You may step down, then. Lieutenant Mannion?" - -Mannion rose and faced the judge. "Sir?" - -"You've now heard your commander testify that you wilfully obstructed -his attempt to end the android mutiny ... a mutiny which cost 12 human -lives and did over $5,000,000 worth of damage to the Iapetus Project. -Is there, again, anything you care to say in your own defense?" - -Mannion shook his head. "No, sir." - -"Very well, then. The court will adjourn for 15 minutes while data is -programmed and fed to the computer, after which the verdict will be -announced and the sentence read." - - * * * * * - -Mannion left the stand and felt his wife Virginia come up to him and -hold him tightly. - -"Dan, Dan, why don't you say something? Dubrow's testimony is damning -if you don't speak up!" - -Mannion frowned. "But I don't remember, Virginia! My mind is a blank -for the entire period of the mutiny! For all I know I did do as the -Commander says!" - -"Impossible, Dan! You were always so loyal to the Patrol--" - -"I still am," he said. "And if I committed this crime I deserve to be -punished for it." - -"Do you know what the punishment is?" - -"Mnemonic erasure," Mannion said. - -"No! Do you know what mnemonic erasure _means_? They'll strip away all -your memories, everything but the basic pattern of your reflexes and -reactions. Everything that is Dan Mannion will be erased, discarded, -thrown away." Tears appeared in the corners of her eyes. "I'll be -declared a widow, officially. And your body will be given a new name, a -different identity. You'll be re-educated as someone else." - -Mannion nodded bleakly. "I know. What can I do? Dubrow's my Commander; -he _has_ to be telling the truth. I don't remember anything. Perhaps -I went temporarily out of my mind, did an insane thing, and now my -consciousness has blanked out that period. It doesn't matter. I killed -12 men by my actions, Ginny." - -"No! No!" - -"I'm afraid so," Mannion said. "And I'll take my punishment for it now." - -He turned away, not wanting to see his wife's tearstreaked face. A -torrent of conflicting emotions raged within him despite the calm -exterior he maintained. All his life he had dreamed of the Patrol -and its glory; he had worked toward that one end. Four years at the -Academy, two more in apprentice-work, then finally the commission and -the assignment to Iapetus. - -And what happened? A moment of insanity, perhaps--or downright -conspiracy with an android to overthrow the Project by violence? He -didn't know. He would never know. All he knew was he had done some mad -act and now he would pay for it. His marriage, his career, even his -identity itself, would be taken from him. - -An orderly touched his arm. "The court's returning to order, Lieutenant -Mannion. Please resume your place." - -"Sure. Sure, I'm going." He kissed his wife tenderly and started up the -row of steps to take his place in the prisoner's dock. - - * * * * * - -Commander Harkness was staring grimly at him. The verdict, when it -came, would be no surprise; from the nature of Mannion's lack of -defense, it would be a foregone certainty. - -"Lieutenant Mannion, you're aware of the nature of the crime you're -charged with?" - -"Yes, sir." - -"The only witness against you has been your former Commander, Lee -Dubrow. You have not made any statements in your own defense." - -"No, sir." - -"In view of this situation, the court has no recourse but to find you -guilty of insubordination in the highest degree, conspiracy, malicious -attack upon an officer with intent to aid in mutiny." - -Mannion bowed his head. "Yes, sir," he said in a half-audible tone. - -"The punishment for these crimes in necessarily severe," the judge went -on. "Naturally, we're unable to put into effect what would normally -have been the penalty 300 years ago. The death penalty is obsolete. -However, I hereby pronounce a sentence amounting to execution upon the -personality, mind, and accumulated memories of the man formerly known -as Daniel Mannion." - -"You mean mnemonic erasure, sir?" - -"Obviously. This sentence automatically carries with it loss of all -privileges, pensions, and honors that go with your high rank in the -Space Patrol. Your name will be wiped from its roster. After the -erasure, you will never have existed, Lieutenant Mannion. Your body -will be restrained under a new name and will make a fresh start in -life. It will even be possible for your new personality to enter the -Space Patrol, if it so chooses. No prejudice against your body will be -entertained for your mind's previous acts." - -In the background, Mannion heard his wife's faint sobbing. "I hear and -accept the sentence, sir," he said quietly. - -"The act of erasure will be carried out immediately, in the Space -Patrol's mnemonic laboratories on the 14th level of this building." The -gavel rapped three times. "The case of Earth versus Daniel Mannion is -hereby considered closed." - -"No!" Virginia suddenly shouted. All eyes in the courtroom swivelled to -focus on her as she rose from the audience to protest. "No, don't close -the case yet!" - -"This is highly irregular," said Judge Harkness. "Do you have -additional testimony, Mrs. Mannion?" - -"Not--testimony, your honor. But can't you see that Dan's obviously -insane? He's allowing himself to be sentenced without even a protest! -Can't he enter a plea of insanity?" - -"The plea of insanity would not alter the judgment in any way, Mrs. -Mannion. Rest assured that your husband's--ah--disturbed mental state -has been taken into account in the decision. Whether he was insane or -criminally possessed at the time of the mutiny makes no difference; the -crime has been committed, obviously, and the guilty person is of no -further value to society. Mnemonic erasure is not merely a punishment, -Mrs. Mannion. It's the gateway to rehabilitation for a sick person." - -"I--see. May I say goodbye to my husband before you--erase him?" - - * * * * * - -Going down in the lift tube from the courtroom on the 60th floor -of Patrol headquarters to the lab on Level Fourteen, Mannion felt -strangely numb inside. - -Two Patrol members stood behind him, ready to go for blasters if he -made the slightest move toward escaping. But Mannion had no idea of -escaping. - -He was on his way to be erased. - -He wondered what erasure was like. Did it hurt? Did you feel the pain -as they stripped away layer after layer of your memory like peelings -from an onion? First 2367 would go, but the new year was only two -weeks old and he'd spent those two weeks in prison. Then 2366 would -vanish--but 2366 was partly gone, at least for the few hours of the -Mutiny. Next would go 2365, the year they first landed on Iapetus. - -And so, ever backward, they would tear away more and more of the -accumulation of memories and experiences that was Dan Mannion. 2364, -2363. - -2362. That was the year he met Virginia. They would take away his -courtship, his wedding, those wonderful early days of marriage-- - -The two years as a Patrol Apprentice would go. The four years at the -Academy. - -Adolescence. Boyhood. Childhood. - -Soon there would be nothing left of Dan Mannion but a few vague -memories of babyhood, and then even those would be gone. He would -emerge from the lab wiped blank, a fresh unmarked slate ready to be -given its new identity. - -Suddenly, he found himself quivering. - -_I'm not guilty! I didn't do it! I couldn't have done it!_ - -_Too late_, a voice said. He saw again the faces of Virginia, of -Commander Harkness, of stern-faced Dubrow giving the testimony that -damned him. - -_Too late. Too late to defend yourself._ - -"Fourteen," the robobrain of the elevator announced. The door slid -back. Mannion felt light pressure behind each of his arms as his two -guards shoved him gently forward. - -A frosted glass door loomed up ahead of him. The sign on the door read -_Mnemonics Laboratory_. - -Cold sweat drenched his body. Now that he was but feet away from the -room where the erasure would take place, he wanted out desperately, -wanted some chance to prove that he hadn't conspired with the androids, -hadn't aided in the revolt, hadn't helped to murder 12 fellow Patrolmen -and wreck the Iapetus project. - -"You go in here," someone said to him. - -The door marked _Mnemonics Laboratory_ was swinging open to receive him. - -There was no way out. - - * * * * * - -Four gray-smocked technicians waited inside for him. One of the guards -with him said, "This is Mannion. He was just sentenced upstairs." - -"I know. The order came down the pneumotubes a minute ago. Total -erasure." - -"That's right," the guard said. "He gets wiped clean." - -"Will you lead him to the machines, please?" - -Dan went forward and faced a complex angle of probes and dials, "Is -this the machine that does it?" he asked uneasily. - -"That's right. It'll be over in a minute, Lieutenant Mannion. We -clamp the electrodes to your scalp and run preliminary tests with an -electoencephalograph--and then we use the Eraser." - -"Will it be painful?" - -"It'll be quick. There won't be anything more than a faint tickling -sensation, and then--" - -"Then Dan Mannion ceases to exist." He stared appealingly at the -technician in charge and said, "Listen--does the sentence have to be -carried out at once?" - -"The order says immediately. We have the machine all ready for you." - -Dan felt perspiration trickling down his body. "Can you wait a few -minutes? There's something I'd like you to do for me?" - -"What's that?" - -"Probe my mind. I'm suffering from amnesia--a short-range blockage -of the critical era around the time the android mutiny took place. -Couldn't you--?" - -"Impossible. Not without a court order, at any rate. And the trial's -over." - -Dan scowled. "But my life depends on it! My identity is going to be -taken away. The least you could have done was look!" - -"Come on, Mannion," one of the guards growled. "The time to make your -pitch is during the trial, not after the sentence has been pronounced." -Dan felt himself shoved forward. - -The machine loomed up before him--gigantic, monstrous, a mindless -instrument of horror. Within minutes he was going to undergo mnemonic -erasure, to have his mind blanked, his identity removed-- - -_For a crime I didn't commit!_ - -Suddenly he felt sure of his innocence. Despite the evidence, despite -the testimony, he knew in his heart that he was innocent. - -It was a frameup of some sort. It had to be. - -He allowed himself to be led up to the machine. But abruptly, as they -were unhinging some apparatus to strap to his head, he spun away from -the guards who held him lightly, dove, grabbed at a blaster that -protruded from a black leather holster-- - -"Okay," he said. "Get against that wall, all of you. One move I don't -like and I'll destroy the whole lab." - - * * * * * - -His fingers were shaking with inner tension. All his life he had been -raised to obey authority, to accept the commands of his superior -officers-- - -And now he was rebelling. He was threatening the destruction of one of -Earth's most expensive pieces of equipment. - -The threat worked. The four technicians and the two guards backed -against the wall. - -"What do you want?" the head technician asked. - -"I told you before. I want you to probe my mind, to look into that -period that's a blank for me. If you find that I'm guilty, I'll--I'll -submit to the erasure. If not, I'll demand a new trial. But I won't -allow myself to be wiped out without at least a look!" - -"All right. We'll probe you," said the technician. "You'll have to be -under anesthetic, of course." - -"How can I trust you? How do I know you won't put me through mnemonic -erasure the moment I submit to being anesthetized?" - -The technician had no answer. "I'll tell you," Mannion said. "You're -all doctors, aren't you? All four?" - -They nodded. - -"All right, then. I'll rely on your oaths as medical men not to put me -through erasure until you've probed that mutiny fully. Well?" - -"Okay, Mannion. We'll take a look. But if it's not as you say--" - -"I'll take my chances," Mannion said. He felt cold and uncertain -inside. He didn't know what they'd find. He didn't even know whether -they'd keep their word and probe him before the erasure. - -He put the gun down on a lab table. "Here," he said. "Here's my gun. -Now let's see how good your oath is." - -The only trouble with that was he might never see how good it was. - - * * * * * - -"Just relax," the technician said. "The probe is entering your mind, -now. Just relax...." - -Mannion sank downward into the soft, warm darkness that enfolded him. -He was moving back into his own past now, gently guided along by the -mind-probe-- - -_WHAM!_ - -It was like walking full-tilt into a mountainside. Some obstruction in -his mind, no doubt. - -But the probe bored its way through, drilled through the hard barrier -of amnesia in his mind. - -And suddenly he was back on Iapetus, in Project Headquarters. - -He was saying, "Commander Dubrow, the androids running the -atmosphere-generators are lying down on the job. They don't seem to be -working." - -Dubrow glared at him coldly. "Stick to your own job, Lieutenant -Mannion. Coleridge is supervising the androids out there." - -"No, he isn't! Coleridge isn't there." - -"He must be there, Lieutenant." - -"Commander, I'm going out there to see what's wrong. Those androids -have been acting up strangely all day and I don't like it." - -"I order you to stay here!" Dubrow snapped. - -"But--" - -Hesitantly Mannion took a few steps toward the airlock. The androids -outside were sauntering casually around like unemployed thieves. It -wasn't a natural way for androids to behave. - -"Sir, I request special permission to go out there and investig--_sir_!" - -Dubrow was throwing open the airlock--and the androids came rushing in! - -_He's crazy_, Lieutenant Mannion thought. _I've got to take -charge--keep those androids from wrecking the Project--_ - -"Get away from there, sir! Close the lock!" - -"Don't give me orders, Mannion!" - -Dan shook his head and started to run toward his superior officer. But -suddenly Dubrow charged him. - -The abrupt assault bowled him over. Dan ducked and tried to land a -punch but Dubrow had his blaster out. A blow crashed into Mannion's -forehead. He tried to clear away the cobwebs but Dubrow hit him again -and all went dim. - -He had a vague memory of Dubrow's directing the androids in a -methodical destruction of the Project. Then it was all over and -the androids were back where they belonged. Dubrow was holding a -hypnomech in front of his eyes, spinning around and around, a dizzying -sleep-inducing confusing blare of many colors, around and around, -around and around.... - -And then he was asleep. - - * * * * * - -"We owe you a great apology, Lieutenant Mannion," the technician was -saying. "If you hadn't forced us to probe your mind we would have sent -an innocent man to mnemonic erasure. But now we have the record of what -actually happened--" - -"Hang on to it," Mannion said. "I've got to get upstairs and find -Dubrow before he gets out of here." - -Without waiting for a word of protest, Dan threw off the mind-probe -apparatus, jumped off the table, and raced out into the hall. - -He caught the lift tube going up. In all likelihood Dubrow, Virginia, -and the judge would still be in the courtroom, working out some -settlement of the former Lieutenant Mannion's private property. - -He was right. - -"Mannion! What are you doing--" - -Dan ignored the judge's outcry. "Hello, Dubrow. I just had some of my -amnesia removed. That was a pretty clever story you told, wasn't it?" - -"I don't know what you're talking about, Mannion." - -"The hell you don't! You don't know anything about the hypnomech you -used to block my mind and--" - -Dan ducked suddenly as a spurt of energy from the proton-gun in -Dubrow's hand seared through the wall behind him. Dubrow was aiming the -gun, readying to fire again-- - -And Judge Harkness rose from the bench and hurled a heavy law-book at -him. - -It struck Dubrow squarely on the side of the head; the bolt of -proton-force squirted toward the ceiling and Dan leaped forward. - -He crashed into Dubrow and knocked the tall officer sprawling; the -proton-gun clattered to the floor. Dubrow squirmed and kicked but Dan's -fists thundered against his body. - -"Hypnotize me, will you? And try to frame me for that mutiny? I'll--" - -"All right, Mannion," a calm voice said from somewhere above him. "You -can get off him now. He's out cold." - - * * * * * - -Judge Harkness faced Dan and Virginia Mannion. "I don't understand why -you didn't speak up, son." - -"I--I assumed I was wrong, sir. I've always been trained to respect the -word of an officer. If Commander Dubrow said I was guilty and I didn't -remember--well, sir, he had to be right!" - -Harkness chuckled. "You know differently now. We've had a mind-probe -run on Dubrow. It seems he was bribed by a group of private contractors -to wreck the Patrol's project on Iapetus so they could get the job -instead. He figured he'd have you tried for the crime, leaving him -in the clear. So all he did was switch the action around and then -hypnotize you into forgetting it." - -"What's going to happen to him now?" Mannion asked. - -"What else? He's being erased now. Commander Dubrow no longer exists." - -Mannion shuddered. He remembered vividly that complex pile of machinery -on the 14th Level. - -"I guess I'm free, then," he said. - -Harkness nodded. "I guess you are, young man. And next time don't be so -ready to believe your own guilt." - -"No, sir! I mean--yes, sir! I mean--" - -It didn't matter. Mannion smiled at Harkness and took his wife in his -arms. 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Even Lieut. Mannion believed he was<br /> -guilty as they gave him the supreme penalty....</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy<br /> -October 1957<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>Lieut. Dan Mannion of the Earth Space Patrol stood in the prisoner's -dock in the courtroom, gripping the rail of his cubicle so hard his -fingers hurt.</p> - -<p>Comdr. Edward Harkness of the SP, who was presiding, glared at him -sternly. "Lieutenant Mannion, the charges against you are severe. You -face the risk of total mnemonic erasure if found guilty. Is there -anything you care to say in your own defense before we proceed with the -trial?"</p> - -<p>Mannion glanced around the military courtroom, seeing the pale, tense, -anxious face of his wife Virginia, the stern countenance of Dubrow, -his former commanding officer, the interested eyes of half a hundred -onlookers.</p> - -<p>"No," he said. His voice was thin and dry. "There's nothing I can say. -Nothing at all."</p> - -<p>He saw Virginia's pleading eyes. She was telling him silently, -<i>Please, Dan. Tell them you're innocent. At least put up a defense!</i></p> - -<p>"Call the witness," Commander Harkness ordered.</p> - -<p>"Base Commandant Lee Dubrow will please take the witness stand."</p> - -<p>While Dubrow was being sworn in, Mannion studied him. His former -commander on the Iapetus base was a tall, icy-faced man with -close-cropped gray hair and a stiff military mustache. Mannion had -never been particularly friendly with his commanding officer.</p> - -<p>"Commander Dubrow, will you relate the events leading up to Lieutenant -Mannion's actions in the Android Rebellion?"</p> - -<p>Dubrow cleared his throat. "Very well. As you know, the Space Patrol -established its base on Iapetus last year—no, two years ago, at the -end of 2365—as part of its program of preparing Saturn's moons for -colonization."</p> - -<p>"How many members of the patrol were with you?"</p> - -<p>"Fifteen, altogether. I was in command, naturally, and for most of the -period we were there Lieutenant Mannion was my second-in-command."</p> - -<p>"Isn't it fairly unusual for a Lieutenant to hold such a high -position?" the prosecutor asked.</p> - -<p>"Major Dunphy was killed by a rebellious android seven weeks after -we arrived," Dubrow said. "Lieutenant Mannion was the next highest -ranking officer in my squadron and he took over."</p> - -<p>"How many androids did you have with you?"</p> - -<p>"Over a hundred," said Dubrow. "It was quite a time we had when they -mutinied."</p> - -<p>"Had you any knowledge of the mutiny beforehand?"</p> - -<p>"No."</p> - -<p>"Did any member of your staff know about the mutiny before it took -place?"</p> - -<p>"Yes."</p> - -<p>"Who?"</p> - -<p>"Lieutenant Mannion. He was in conspiracy with VZ-1972, the ring-leader -of the mutiny."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Mannion felt his face go bright red. He wanted to stand up and shout, -"That's a lie! I never knew anything about the mutiny!"</p> - -<p>But he couldn't. Somewhere in the back of his mind lay a shadow of -doubt. He could not remember anything that had happened at the time of -the mutiny—and perhaps he had—perhaps—</p> - -<p>The judge said, "Tell us about Lieutenant Mannion's part in the mutiny."</p> - -<p>"Yes, sir. The first we knew about it was on the morning of November -9, 2366, when the androids we used to keep the atmosphere-generators -running refused to perform their regular tasks. I ordered Lieutenant -Mannion to go outside and discover what the trouble was. He refused. I -ordered him a second time, and he struck me and threw open the airlock. -All of the androids rushed in."</p> - -<p>"What happened then?"</p> - -<p>"I found myself wrestling with Lieutenant Mannion while the androids -destroyed all of the Project's equipment and apparatus. In the struggle -all 12 of my men were killed by the androids. Finally I succeeded -in subduing Lieutenant Mannion and bringing the androids back under -control—"</p> - -<p>"How was that done?"</p> - -<p>"The androids respond automatically to a direct command from the -superior officer, no matter what they're doing. Had I been free to give -that command the mutiny would never have taken place. But Lieutenant -Mannion prevented me from giving the command until it was too late. -All of our men were dead and the Project set back more than a year. -I placed Lieutenant Mannion under detention, put the androids in -permafreeze, and returned to Earth. And here I am."</p> - -<p>"Is that the extent of your testimony?"</p> - -<p>"It is."</p> - -<p>"You may step down, then. Lieutenant Mannion?"</p> - -<p>Mannion rose and faced the judge. "Sir?"</p> - -<p>"You've now heard your commander testify that you wilfully obstructed -his attempt to end the android mutiny ... a mutiny which cost 12 human -lives and did over $5,000,000 worth of damage to the Iapetus Project. -Is there, again, anything you care to say in your own defense?"</p> - -<p>Mannion shook his head. "No, sir."</p> - -<p>"Very well, then. The court will adjourn for 15 minutes while data is -programmed and fed to the computer, after which the verdict will be -announced and the sentence read."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Mannion left the stand and felt his wife Virginia come up to him and -hold him tightly.</p> - -<p>"Dan, Dan, why don't you say something? Dubrow's testimony is damning -if you don't speak up!"</p> - -<p>Mannion frowned. "But I don't remember, Virginia! My mind is a blank -for the entire period of the mutiny! For all I know I did do as the -Commander says!"</p> - -<p>"Impossible, Dan! You were always so loyal to the Patrol—"</p> - -<p>"I still am," he said. "And if I committed this crime I deserve to be -punished for it."</p> - -<p>"Do you know what the punishment is?"</p> - -<p>"Mnemonic erasure," Mannion said.</p> - -<p>"No! Do you know what mnemonic erasure <i>means</i>? They'll strip away all -your memories, everything but the basic pattern of your reflexes and -reactions. Everything that is Dan Mannion will be erased, discarded, -thrown away." Tears appeared in the corners of her eyes. "I'll be -declared a widow, officially. And your body will be given a new name, a -different identity. You'll be re-educated as someone else."</p> - -<p>Mannion nodded bleakly. "I know. What can I do? Dubrow's my Commander; -he <i>has</i> to be telling the truth. I don't remember anything. Perhaps -I went temporarily out of my mind, did an insane thing, and now my -consciousness has blanked out that period. It doesn't matter. I killed -12 men by my actions, Ginny."</p> - -<p>"No! No!"</p> - -<p>"I'm afraid so," Mannion said. "And I'll take my punishment for it now."</p> - -<p>He turned away, not wanting to see his wife's tearstreaked face. A -torrent of conflicting emotions raged within him despite the calm -exterior he maintained. All his life he had dreamed of the Patrol -and its glory; he had worked toward that one end. Four years at the -Academy, two more in apprentice-work, then finally the commission and -the assignment to Iapetus.</p> - -<p>And what happened? A moment of insanity, perhaps—or downright -conspiracy with an android to overthrow the Project by violence? He -didn't know. He would never know. All he knew was he had done some mad -act and now he would pay for it. His marriage, his career, even his -identity itself, would be taken from him.</p> - -<p>An orderly touched his arm. "The court's returning to order, Lieutenant -Mannion. Please resume your place."</p> - -<p>"Sure. Sure, I'm going." He kissed his wife tenderly and started up the -row of steps to take his place in the prisoner's dock.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Commander Harkness was staring grimly at him. The verdict, when it -came, would be no surprise; from the nature of Mannion's lack of -defense, it would be a foregone certainty.</p> - -<p>"Lieutenant Mannion, you're aware of the nature of the crime you're -charged with?"</p> - -<p>"Yes, sir."</p> - -<p>"The only witness against you has been your former Commander, Lee -Dubrow. You have not made any statements in your own defense."</p> - -<p>"No, sir."</p> - -<p>"In view of this situation, the court has no recourse but to find you -guilty of insubordination in the highest degree, conspiracy, malicious -attack upon an officer with intent to aid in mutiny."</p> - -<p>Mannion bowed his head. "Yes, sir," he said in a half-audible tone.</p> - -<p>"The punishment for these crimes in necessarily severe," the judge went -on. "Naturally, we're unable to put into effect what would normally -have been the penalty 300 years ago. The death penalty is obsolete. -However, I hereby pronounce a sentence amounting to execution upon the -personality, mind, and accumulated memories of the man formerly known -as Daniel Mannion."</p> - -<p>"You mean mnemonic erasure, sir?"</p> - -<p>"Obviously. This sentence automatically carries with it loss of all -privileges, pensions, and honors that go with your high rank in the -Space Patrol. Your name will be wiped from its roster. After the -erasure, you will never have existed, Lieutenant Mannion. Your body -will be restrained under a new name and will make a fresh start in -life. It will even be possible for your new personality to enter the -Space Patrol, if it so chooses. No prejudice against your body will be -entertained for your mind's previous acts."</p> - -<p>In the background, Mannion heard his wife's faint sobbing. "I hear and -accept the sentence, sir," he said quietly.</p> - -<p>"The act of erasure will be carried out immediately, in the Space -Patrol's mnemonic laboratories on the 14th level of this building." The -gavel rapped three times. "The case of Earth versus Daniel Mannion is -hereby considered closed."</p> - -<p>"No!" Virginia suddenly shouted. All eyes in the courtroom swivelled to -focus on her as she rose from the audience to protest. "No, don't close -the case yet!"</p> - -<p>"This is highly irregular," said Judge Harkness. "Do you have -additional testimony, Mrs. Mannion?"</p> - -<p>"Not—testimony, your honor. But can't you see that Dan's obviously -insane? He's allowing himself to be sentenced without even a protest! -Can't he enter a plea of insanity?"</p> - -<p>"The plea of insanity would not alter the judgment in any way, Mrs. -Mannion. Rest assured that your husband's—ah—disturbed mental state -has been taken into account in the decision. Whether he was insane or -criminally possessed at the time of the mutiny makes no difference; the -crime has been committed, obviously, and the guilty person is of no -further value to society. Mnemonic erasure is not merely a punishment, -Mrs. Mannion. It's the gateway to rehabilitation for a sick person."</p> - -<p>"I—see. May I say goodbye to my husband before you—erase him?"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Going down in the lift tube from the courtroom on the 60th floor -of Patrol headquarters to the lab on Level Fourteen, Mannion felt -strangely numb inside.</p> - -<p>Two Patrol members stood behind him, ready to go for blasters if he -made the slightest move toward escaping. But Mannion had no idea of -escaping.</p> - -<p>He was on his way to be erased.</p> - -<p>He wondered what erasure was like. Did it hurt? Did you feel the pain -as they stripped away layer after layer of your memory like peelings -from an onion? First 2367 would go, but the new year was only two -weeks old and he'd spent those two weeks in prison. Then 2366 would -vanish—but 2366 was partly gone, at least for the few hours of the -Mutiny. Next would go 2365, the year they first landed on Iapetus.</p> - -<p>And so, ever backward, they would tear away more and more of the -accumulation of memories and experiences that was Dan Mannion. 2364, -2363.</p> - -<p>2362. That was the year he met Virginia. They would take away his -courtship, his wedding, those wonderful early days of marriage—</p> - -<p>The two years as a Patrol Apprentice would go. The four years at the -Academy.</p> - -<p>Adolescence. Boyhood. Childhood.</p> - -<p>Soon there would be nothing left of Dan Mannion but a few vague -memories of babyhood, and then even those would be gone. He would -emerge from the lab wiped blank, a fresh unmarked slate ready to be -given its new identity.</p> - -<p>Suddenly, he found himself quivering.</p> - -<p><i>I'm not guilty! I didn't do it! I couldn't have done it!</i></p> - -<p><i>Too late</i>, a voice said. He saw again the faces of Virginia, of -Commander Harkness, of stern-faced Dubrow giving the testimony that -damned him.</p> - -<p><i>Too late. Too late to defend yourself.</i></p> - -<p>"Fourteen," the robobrain of the elevator announced. The door slid -back. Mannion felt light pressure behind each of his arms as his two -guards shoved him gently forward.</p> - -<p>A frosted glass door loomed up ahead of him. The sign on the door read -<i>Mnemonics Laboratory</i>.</p> - -<p>Cold sweat drenched his body. Now that he was but feet away from the -room where the erasure would take place, he wanted out desperately, -wanted some chance to prove that he hadn't conspired with the androids, -hadn't aided in the revolt, hadn't helped to murder 12 fellow Patrolmen -and wreck the Iapetus project.</p> - -<p>"You go in here," someone said to him.</p> - -<p>The door marked <i>Mnemonics Laboratory</i> was swinging open to receive him.</p> - -<p>There was no way out.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Four gray-smocked technicians waited inside for him. One of the guards -with him said, "This is Mannion. He was just sentenced upstairs."</p> - -<p>"I know. The order came down the pneumotubes a minute ago. Total -erasure."</p> - -<p>"That's right," the guard said. "He gets wiped clean."</p> - -<p>"Will you lead him to the machines, please?"</p> - -<p>Dan went forward and faced a complex angle of probes and dials, "Is -this the machine that does it?" he asked uneasily.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"That's right. It'll be over in a minute, Lieutenant Mannion. We -clamp the electrodes to your scalp and run preliminary tests with an -electoencephalograph—and then we use the Eraser."</p> - -<p>"Will it be painful?"</p> - -<p>"It'll be quick. There won't be anything more than a faint tickling -sensation, and then—"</p> - -<p>"Then Dan Mannion ceases to exist." He stared appealingly at the -technician in charge and said, "Listen—does the sentence have to be -carried out at once?"</p> - -<p>"The order says immediately. We have the machine all ready for you."</p> - -<p>Dan felt perspiration trickling down his body. "Can you wait a few -minutes? There's something I'd like you to do for me?"</p> - -<p>"What's that?"</p> - -<p>"Probe my mind. I'm suffering from amnesia—a short-range blockage -of the critical era around the time the android mutiny took place. -Couldn't you—?"</p> - -<p>"Impossible. Not without a court order, at any rate. And the trial's -over."</p> - -<p>Dan scowled. "But my life depends on it! My identity is going to be -taken away. The least you could have done was look!"</p> - -<p>"Come on, Mannion," one of the guards growled. "The time to make your -pitch is during the trial, not after the sentence has been pronounced." -Dan felt himself shoved forward.</p> - -<p>The machine loomed up before him—gigantic, monstrous, a mindless -instrument of horror. Within minutes he was going to undergo mnemonic -erasure, to have his mind blanked, his identity removed—</p> - -<p><i>For a crime I didn't commit!</i></p> - -<p>Suddenly he felt sure of his innocence. Despite the evidence, despite -the testimony, he knew in his heart that he was innocent.</p> - -<p>It was a frameup of some sort. It had to be.</p> - -<p>He allowed himself to be led up to the machine. But abruptly, as they -were unhinging some apparatus to strap to his head, he spun away from -the guards who held him lightly, dove, grabbed at a blaster that -protruded from a black leather holster—</p> - -<p>"Okay," he said. "Get against that wall, all of you. One move I don't -like and I'll destroy the whole lab."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>His fingers were shaking with inner tension. All his life he had been -raised to obey authority, to accept the commands of his superior -officers—</p> - -<p>And now he was rebelling. He was threatening the destruction of one of -Earth's most expensive pieces of equipment.</p> - -<p>The threat worked. The four technicians and the two guards backed -against the wall.</p> - -<p>"What do you want?" the head technician asked.</p> - -<p>"I told you before. I want you to probe my mind, to look into that -period that's a blank for me. If you find that I'm guilty, I'll—I'll -submit to the erasure. If not, I'll demand a new trial. But I won't -allow myself to be wiped out without at least a look!"</p> - -<p>"All right. We'll probe you," said the technician. "You'll have to be -under anesthetic, of course."</p> - -<p>"How can I trust you? How do I know you won't put me through mnemonic -erasure the moment I submit to being anesthetized?"</p> - -<p>The technician had no answer. "I'll tell you," Mannion said. "You're -all doctors, aren't you? All four?"</p> - -<p>They nodded.</p> - -<p>"All right, then. I'll rely on your oaths as medical men not to put me -through erasure until you've probed that mutiny fully. Well?"</p> - -<p>"Okay, Mannion. We'll take a look. But if it's not as you say—"</p> - -<p>"I'll take my chances," Mannion said. He felt cold and uncertain -inside. He didn't know what they'd find. He didn't even know whether -they'd keep their word and probe him before the erasure.</p> - -<p>He put the gun down on a lab table. "Here," he said. "Here's my gun. -Now let's see how good your oath is."</p> - -<p>The only trouble with that was he might never see how good it was.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>"Just relax," the technician said. "The probe is entering your mind, -now. Just relax...."</p> - -<p>Mannion sank downward into the soft, warm darkness that enfolded him. -He was moving back into his own past now, gently guided along by the -mind-probe—</p> - -<p><i>WHAM!</i></p> - -<p>It was like walking full-tilt into a mountainside. Some obstruction in -his mind, no doubt.</p> - -<p>But the probe bored its way through, drilled through the hard barrier -of amnesia in his mind.</p> - -<p>And suddenly he was back on Iapetus, in Project Headquarters.</p> - -<p>He was saying, "Commander Dubrow, the androids running the -atmosphere-generators are lying down on the job. They don't seem to be -working."</p> - -<p>Dubrow glared at him coldly. "Stick to your own job, Lieutenant -Mannion. Coleridge is supervising the androids out there."</p> - -<p>"No, he isn't! Coleridge isn't there."</p> - -<p>"He must be there, Lieutenant."</p> - -<p>"Commander, I'm going out there to see what's wrong. Those androids -have been acting up strangely all day and I don't like it."</p> - -<p>"I order you to stay here!" Dubrow snapped.</p> - -<p>"But—"</p> - -<p>Hesitantly Mannion took a few steps toward the airlock. The androids -outside were sauntering casually around like unemployed thieves. It -wasn't a natural way for androids to behave.</p> - -<p>"Sir, I request special permission to go out there and investig—<i>sir</i>!"</p> - -<p>Dubrow was throwing open the airlock—and the androids came rushing in!</p> - -<p><i>He's crazy</i>, Lieutenant Mannion thought. <i>I've got to take -charge—keep those androids from wrecking the Project—</i></p> - -<p>"Get away from there, sir! Close the lock!"</p> - -<p>"Don't give me orders, Mannion!"</p> - -<p>Dan shook his head and started to run toward his superior officer. But -suddenly Dubrow charged him.</p> - -<p>The abrupt assault bowled him over. Dan ducked and tried to land a -punch but Dubrow had his blaster out. A blow crashed into Mannion's -forehead. He tried to clear away the cobwebs but Dubrow hit him again -and all went dim.</p> - -<p>He had a vague memory of Dubrow's directing the androids in a -methodical destruction of the Project. Then it was all over and -the androids were back where they belonged. Dubrow was holding a -hypnomech in front of his eyes, spinning around and around, a dizzying -sleep-inducing confusing blare of many colors, around and around, -around and around....</p> - -<p>And then he was asleep.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>"We owe you a great apology, Lieutenant Mannion," the technician was -saying. "If you hadn't forced us to probe your mind we would have sent -an innocent man to mnemonic erasure. But now we have the record of what -actually happened—"</p> - -<p>"Hang on to it," Mannion said. "I've got to get upstairs and find -Dubrow before he gets out of here."</p> - -<p>Without waiting for a word of protest, Dan threw off the mind-probe -apparatus, jumped off the table, and raced out into the hall.</p> - -<p>He caught the lift tube going up. In all likelihood Dubrow, Virginia, -and the judge would still be in the courtroom, working out some -settlement of the former Lieutenant Mannion's private property.</p> - -<p>He was right.</p> - -<p>"Mannion! What are you doing—"</p> - -<p>Dan ignored the judge's outcry. "Hello, Dubrow. I just had some of my -amnesia removed. That was a pretty clever story you told, wasn't it?"</p> - -<p>"I don't know what you're talking about, Mannion."</p> - -<p>"The hell you don't! You don't know anything about the hypnomech you -used to block my mind and—"</p> - -<p>Dan ducked suddenly as a spurt of energy from the proton-gun in -Dubrow's hand seared through the wall behind him. Dubrow was aiming the -gun, readying to fire again—</p> - -<p>And Judge Harkness rose from the bench and hurled a heavy law-book at -him.</p> - -<p>It struck Dubrow squarely on the side of the head; the bolt of -proton-force squirted toward the ceiling and Dan leaped forward.</p> - -<p>He crashed into Dubrow and knocked the tall officer sprawling; the -proton-gun clattered to the floor. Dubrow squirmed and kicked but Dan's -fists thundered against his body.</p> - -<p>"Hypnotize me, will you? And try to frame me for that mutiny? I'll—"</p> - -<p>"All right, Mannion," a calm voice said from somewhere above him. "You -can get off him now. He's out cold."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Judge Harkness faced Dan and Virginia Mannion. "I don't understand why -you didn't speak up, son."</p> - -<p>"I—I assumed I was wrong, sir. I've always been trained to respect the -word of an officer. If Commander Dubrow said I was guilty and I didn't -remember—well, sir, he had to be right!"</p> - -<p>Harkness chuckled. "You know differently now. We've had a mind-probe -run on Dubrow. It seems he was bribed by a group of private contractors -to wreck the Patrol's project on Iapetus so they could get the job -instead. He figured he'd have you tried for the crime, leaving him -in the clear. So all he did was switch the action around and then -hypnotize you into forgetting it."</p> - -<p>"What's going to happen to him now?" Mannion asked.</p> - -<p>"What else? He's being erased now. Commander Dubrow no longer exists."</p> - -<p>Mannion shuddered. He remembered vividly that complex pile of machinery -on the 14th Level.</p> - -<p>"I guess I'm free, then," he said.</p> - -<p>Harkness nodded. "I guess you are, young man. And next time don't be so -ready to believe your own guilt."</p> - -<p>"No, sir! I mean—yes, sir! I mean—"</p> - -<p>It didn't matter. Mannion smiled at Harkness and took his wife in his -arms. 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