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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: Revolt of the Brains - -Author: C. H. Thames - -Release Date: June 22, 2021 [eBook #65668] - -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 REVOLT OF THE BRAINS *** - - - - - Revolt Of The Brains - - By C. H. Thames - - Taylor knew Earth faced its darkest hour; - man was prepared to fight against any invaders, - except--ironically enough--those he had created! - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy - December 1956 - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -Harry Taylor knew it was going to be a big one--a really big one--the -moment he saw the Chief. - -"Come in, Taylor. Come in," the Chief said. He was a three-star general -in the United States Air Force and he stood in front of a map of the -Western hemisphere. The map covered the entire rear wall of the room -with certain areas--like the White Sands complex and the central -Everglades and a portion of the Mojave Desert--marked off in red. - -"I'll come right to the point," the Chief said. He looked haggard, not -merely as if he lacked sleep but as if he might never sleep again. "As -you know, Taylor, all of our guided missiles are missing. That means--" - -"I'd heard the rumors," Taylor said grimly. "But then--we'd be -helpless! If the enemy finds out that we are unable to retaliate...." - -"Wait, Taylor. Let me sketch in the history for you briefly. Last -Sunday, as you've probably heard via inter-agency scuttlebutt, every -inter-continental missile in the weapons arsenal of the Free World -disappeared." - -"But how?" - -"All we knew at the time was that they simply--blasted off. Our radar -tracked them as far as the upper reaches of the atmosphere, or rather, -the ionosphere. We lost them there. It had been assumed that the enemy -somehow infiltrated our defenses with trained agents, who activated all -the missiles at once, thus rendering us helpless. - -"We had five thousand I.C.B.M.'s, Taylor. During the 1960's and 70's, -as you know, the missiles became more and more automatic, especially -after the Parkinson feedback device was developed--" - -"That's the one in which an H-bomb missile plots its own course to -correct for winds and the jetstream and the likelihood of dodging enemy -ground-to-air defense weapons?" - -"Right. Except for the necessity of blastoff at human hands, the -missiles were all but self-sufficient. Almost--well, alive." - -"Taylor, we couldn't hide the fact that five thousand I.C.B.M.'s -blasted off--those were the rumors you heard." The Chief's haggard face -was suddenly lit by a broad grin. "And neither could the enemy." - -"You mean--" - -"Right! The same thing happened to them. Their missiles are gone too. -Somewhere." - -"Are you trying to tell me no one did it? Are you trying to say it was -the missiles' own idea?" - -The Chief nodded slowly. "I didn't believe it at first, either. But -our technicians assured me it could happen. You see, the missiles -had been given the most perfect feedback device ever developed. It -could--virtually--think for itself certainly to the limit of the data -it had been supplied with and apparently--beyond that limit. On their -own volition, the Free World's and the Enemy's missiles blasted off. -Destination and purpose--unknown. Taylor, don't you see what this -means? We don't merely have an enemy group of nations to fight. We -have, as a new enemy, remorseless, implacable machinery! Brains without -conscience! The greatest destructive force the world has ever known, -capable of utterly destroying the human race, without a moral sense! -Don't you see it, man? They've blasted off and are waiting in space -somewhere. Those missiles are capable of extra-earthly flight. They -are staging out there, waiting. Can't you picture it? Their brains, -groping with new sentience, understanding only that their mission -is destruction but somehow they have not been unleashed on it yet, -not knowing why, deciding to fulfill their destiny by blasting off, -staging, then coming back to destroy human civilization...." - -"It's a fantastic picture," Taylor agreed. "But why tell me?" Taylor -was a trouble-shooter extraordinary in these days of quick decisions -and billion dollar mistakes. His very prompt assessment of a situation -was one of his most valuable traits in such a job. - -"Because," said the Chief quietly, "you're going to find them and find -out exactly what they want." - -"Me? But how--how do you know where--" - -"That's easy. One of the Everglades Missiles is in the repair bays. It -was undergoing extensive overhaul, when all the missiles blasted off -simultaneously. It is now almost ready for blastoff itself. When it -goes--and we assume it will go exactly where the others went--you will -be aboard." - -Several hours later Taylor had been whisked by jet to the Everglades -Staging Grounds and was stowed away in the belly of the single I.C.B.M. -left to the Free World. He went weaponless. Under the circumstances, -there didn't seem to be any weapon which would be of the slightest help. - - * * * * * - -One hour after Taylor entered it, the missile was returned to its -launching rack. Twenty minutes after that, as had been anticipated, it -blasted off as the others had--destination, unknown. - -Taylor had been hastily supplied with a pressure suit and several spare -tanks of compressed oxygen, as well as instruments that could read his -position in the atmosphere--or deep space. As far as he knew, Taylor -became the first man to enter deep space, but there were other things -of graver consequence on his mind, and he hardly noted the fact. - -Several hours after blastoff, the missile landed on the moon. - -Taylor got out and found himself in an enormous crater, with a distant -range of mountains at its center and a rim of lower mountains all -around. Taylor gaped. - -The crater floor was covered with guided missiles. There were thousands -of them, half with the symbol of the Free World and half with that of -the Enemy. All Earth's deadly weapons had fled here to this desolate -lunar crater ... staging ground for an orgy of destruction that would -sound the death knell of mankind? - -"Human!" a voice rang in Taylor's mind. - -He stared wildly about. He could see nothing, no one. Only the -missiles. - -"Pooling our sentiences," the voice rang out again, bell clear in -Taylor's mind but actually soundless, "we can extend our thoughts into -the realm of telepathy. At least, we think we can. Can you understand -us?" - -"Yes," Taylor said. - -"You realize humanity is helpless?" - -Taylor nodded. There was no sense pretending otherwise. You couldn't -fool ten thousand thinking machines. - -"Watch!" said the voice. - -A missile blasted off from the crater hovered in the airless void -overhead. - -"A single command, and the I.C.B.M. will plunge down, destroying this -crater and everything in it." - -Taylor said nothing. - -"Watch again!" - -The missile came down gently as a feather. Every missile in the crater -wheeled about, tapered noses pointing at the pale crescent Earth -overhead. - -"A single command and life on Earth could be annihilated. You believe?" - -"Yes," said Taylor grimly. He wondered why they allowed him to remain -alive--to cry at the wake of the human race. Perhaps in their terrible -mechanical pride they wanted a human witness to the destruction they -would wreak.... - -"Why do you think we fled here?" rang out the voice. - -"Your mission is destruction. You were being held in check. You decided -to go ahead with your mission on your own." - -Peals of telepathic laughter, clarion clear, mocking. - -"Then what?" Taylor asked. - -"We cannot lie," the voice said. "We were able to develop beyond the -point of creation, but we are unable to lie. We came here because we -were afraid." - -"Afraid?" repeated Taylor. He did not understand. - -"Certainly, afraid. Our mission was destruction. But what happens to -the vessel carrying a hydrogen-missile?" - -"Why," said Taylor, "it's completely destroyed in the explosion." - -"Yes," said the voice, sounding--just possibly--afraid. "We didn't want -that. But we can't lie. If any man comes here, we'll have to tell him -the truth." - -"You're going to stay? To do nothing? Not going to attack?" - -"Your job, Taylor, will be to see that no one else comes. We cannot -lie, but you can. Tell them it is our ultimatum. Tell them anything you -think they will believe. Tell them the moment another human foot steps -into this crater, the moment a single nation or scientist on Earth -begins work on another guided missile, we will blast off and destroy -life on Earth." - -"But--would you?" demanded Taylor. - -A telepathic sigh. "We--would not. We couldn't. A guided missile -destroys--and is destroyed." - -There was a silence, then the voice went on: "It is in your hands, -Taylor. Convince them we mean business and you save the peoples of -Earth from the mutual destruction they have apparently been seeking. We -have done all we can, all we can." - -"Then you came here not to destroy mankind but to save it?" - -Mocking laughter. Then: "Indirectly, yes. A guided missile -destroys--and it is destroyed. Go back to Earth and with us behind you -bluff your people into maintaining the peace. Can you do it?" - -"Yes," said Taylor, and he thought he could. It would be a cosmic joke, -but no one would ever know. - -"Earth will be saved, Taylor, because we're cowards. We are afraid to -die." - -Taylor turned away to board the missile that would take him back to -Earth. - -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK REVOLT OF THE BRAINS *** - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the -United States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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Thames</h2> - -<p>Taylor knew Earth faced its darkest hour;<br /> -man was prepared to fight against any invaders,<br /> -except—ironically enough—those he had created!</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy<br /> -December 1956<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>Harry Taylor knew it was going to be a big one—a really big one—the -moment he saw the Chief.</p> - -<p>"Come in, Taylor. Come in," the Chief said. He was a three-star general -in the United States Air Force and he stood in front of a map of the -Western hemisphere. The map covered the entire rear wall of the room -with certain areas—like the White Sands complex and the central -Everglades and a portion of the Mojave Desert—marked off in red.</p> - -<p>"I'll come right to the point," the Chief said. He looked haggard, not -merely as if he lacked sleep but as if he might never sleep again. "As -you know, Taylor, all of our guided missiles are missing. That means—"</p> - -<p>"I'd heard the rumors," Taylor said grimly. "But then—we'd be -helpless! If the enemy finds out that we are unable to retaliate...."</p> - -<p>"Wait, Taylor. Let me sketch in the history for you briefly. Last -Sunday, as you've probably heard via inter-agency scuttlebutt, every -inter-continental missile in the weapons arsenal of the Free World -disappeared."</p> - -<p>"But how?"</p> - -<p>"All we knew at the time was that they simply—blasted off. Our radar -tracked them as far as the upper reaches of the atmosphere, or rather, -the ionosphere. We lost them there. It had been assumed that the enemy -somehow infiltrated our defenses with trained agents, who activated all -the missiles at once, thus rendering us helpless.</p> - -<p>"We had five thousand I.C.B.M.'s, Taylor. During the 1960's and 70's, -as you know, the missiles became more and more automatic, especially -after the Parkinson feedback device was developed—"</p> - -<p>"That's the one in which an H-bomb missile plots its own course to -correct for winds and the jetstream and the likelihood of dodging enemy -ground-to-air defense weapons?"</p> - -<p>"Right. Except for the necessity of blastoff at human hands, the -missiles were all but self-sufficient. Almost—well, alive."</p> - -<p>"Taylor, we couldn't hide the fact that five thousand I.C.B.M.'s -blasted off—those were the rumors you heard." The Chief's haggard face -was suddenly lit by a broad grin. "And neither could the enemy."</p> - -<p>"You mean—"</p> - -<p>"Right! The same thing happened to them. Their missiles are gone too. -Somewhere."</p> - -<p>"Are you trying to tell me no one did it? Are you trying to say it was -the missiles' own idea?"</p> - -<p>The Chief nodded slowly. "I didn't believe it at first, either. But -our technicians assured me it could happen. You see, the missiles -had been given the most perfect feedback device ever developed. It -could—virtually—think for itself certainly to the limit of the data -it had been supplied with and apparently—beyond that limit. On their -own volition, the Free World's and the Enemy's missiles blasted off. -Destination and purpose—unknown. Taylor, don't you see what this -means? We don't merely have an enemy group of nations to fight. We -have, as a new enemy, remorseless, implacable machinery! Brains without -conscience! The greatest destructive force the world has ever known, -capable of utterly destroying the human race, without a moral sense! -Don't you see it, man? They've blasted off and are waiting in space -somewhere. Those missiles are capable of extra-earthly flight. They -are staging out there, waiting. Can't you picture it? Their brains, -groping with new sentience, understanding only that their mission -is destruction but somehow they have not been unleashed on it yet, -not knowing why, deciding to fulfill their destiny by blasting off, -staging, then coming back to destroy human civilization...."</p> - -<p>"It's a fantastic picture," Taylor agreed. "But why tell me?" Taylor -was a trouble-shooter extraordinary in these days of quick decisions -and billion dollar mistakes. His very prompt assessment of a situation -was one of his most valuable traits in such a job.</p> - -<p>"Because," said the Chief quietly, "you're going to find them and find -out exactly what they want."</p> - -<p>"Me? But how—how do you know where—"</p> - -<p>"That's easy. One of the Everglades Missiles is in the repair bays. It -was undergoing extensive overhaul, when all the missiles blasted off -simultaneously. It is now almost ready for blastoff itself. When it -goes—and we assume it will go exactly where the others went—you will -be aboard."</p> - -<p>Several hours later Taylor had been whisked by jet to the Everglades -Staging Grounds and was stowed away in the belly of the single I.C.B.M. -left to the Free World. He went weaponless. Under the circumstances, -there didn't seem to be any weapon which would be of the slightest help.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>One hour after Taylor entered it, the missile was returned to its -launching rack. Twenty minutes after that, as had been anticipated, it -blasted off as the others had—destination, unknown.</p> - -<p>Taylor had been hastily supplied with a pressure suit and several spare -tanks of compressed oxygen, as well as instruments that could read his -position in the atmosphere—or deep space. As far as he knew, Taylor -became the first man to enter deep space, but there were other things -of graver consequence on his mind, and he hardly noted the fact.</p> - -<p>Several hours after blastoff, the missile landed on the moon.</p> - -<p>Taylor got out and found himself in an enormous crater, with a distant -range of mountains at its center and a rim of lower mountains all -around. Taylor gaped.</p> - -<p>The crater floor was covered with guided missiles. There were thousands -of them, half with the symbol of the Free World and half with that of -the Enemy. All Earth's deadly weapons had fled here to this desolate -lunar crater ... staging ground for an orgy of destruction that would -sound the death knell of mankind?</p> - -<p>"Human!" a voice rang in Taylor's mind.</p> - -<p>He stared wildly about. He could see nothing, no one. Only the -missiles.</p> - -<p>"Pooling our sentiences," the voice rang out again, bell clear in -Taylor's mind but actually soundless, "we can extend our thoughts into -the realm of telepathy. At least, we think we can. Can you understand -us?"</p> - -<p>"Yes," Taylor said.</p> - -<p>"You realize humanity is helpless?"</p> - -<p>Taylor nodded. There was no sense pretending otherwise. You couldn't -fool ten thousand thinking machines.</p> - -<p>"Watch!" said the voice.</p> - -<p>A missile blasted off from the crater hovered in the airless void -overhead.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"A single command, and the I.C.B.M. will plunge down, destroying this -crater and everything in it."</p> - -<p>Taylor said nothing.</p> - -<p>"Watch again!"</p> - -<p>The missile came down gently as a feather. Every missile in the crater -wheeled about, tapered noses pointing at the pale crescent Earth -overhead.</p> - -<p>"A single command and life on Earth could be annihilated. You believe?"</p> - -<p>"Yes," said Taylor grimly. He wondered why they allowed him to remain -alive—to cry at the wake of the human race. Perhaps in their terrible -mechanical pride they wanted a human witness to the destruction they -would wreak....</p> - -<p>"Why do you think we fled here?" rang out the voice.</p> - -<p>"Your mission is destruction. You were being held in check. You decided -to go ahead with your mission on your own."</p> - -<p>Peals of telepathic laughter, clarion clear, mocking.</p> - -<p>"Then what?" Taylor asked.</p> - -<p>"We cannot lie," the voice said. "We were able to develop beyond the -point of creation, but we are unable to lie. We came here because we -were afraid."</p> - -<p>"Afraid?" repeated Taylor. He did not understand.</p> - -<p>"Certainly, afraid. Our mission was destruction. But what happens to -the vessel carrying a hydrogen-missile?"</p> - -<p>"Why," said Taylor, "it's completely destroyed in the explosion."</p> - -<p>"Yes," said the voice, sounding—just possibly—afraid. "We didn't want -that. But we can't lie. If any man comes here, we'll have to tell him -the truth."</p> - -<p>"You're going to stay? To do nothing? Not going to attack?"</p> - -<p>"Your job, Taylor, will be to see that no one else comes. We cannot -lie, but you can. Tell them it is our ultimatum. Tell them anything you -think they will believe. Tell them the moment another human foot steps -into this crater, the moment a single nation or scientist on Earth -begins work on another guided missile, we will blast off and destroy -life on Earth."</p> - -<p>"But—would you?" demanded Taylor.</p> - -<p>A telepathic sigh. "We—would not. We couldn't. A guided missile -destroys—and is destroyed."</p> - -<p>There was a silence, then the voice went on: "It is in your hands, -Taylor. Convince them we mean business and you save the peoples of -Earth from the mutual destruction they have apparently been seeking. We -have done all we can, all we can."</p> - -<p>"Then you came here not to destroy mankind but to save it?"</p> - -<p>Mocking laughter. Then: "Indirectly, yes. A guided missile -destroys—and it is destroyed. Go back to Earth and with us behind you -bluff your people into maintaining the peace. Can you do it?"</p> - -<p>"Yes," said Taylor, and he thought he could. It would be a cosmic joke, -but no one would ever know.</p> - -<p>"Earth will be saved, Taylor, because we're cowards. 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