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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it -under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this -eBook or online at http://www.gutenberg.org/license. - -Title: We're Civilized! - -Author: Mark Clifton and Alex Apostolides - -Release Date: December 13, 2011 [EBook #38287] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WE'RE CIVILIZED! *** - - - - -Produced by Frank van Drogen, Greg Weeks, and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. - - WE'RE CIVILIZED! - - By MARK CLIFTON and ALEX APOSTOLIDES - - - _Naturally, the superior race should win ... but superior by - which standards ... and whose?_ - - Illustrated by BALBALIS - - -The females and children worked among the lichen growth, picking off the -fattest, ripest leaves for their food and moisture, completing their arc -of the circle of symbiosis. - -The males worked at the surface of the canals, or in open excavations. -Their wide, mutated hands chipped into the rock-hard clay, opening a -channel which was to be filled with sand and then sealed off with clay -on all sides and surface. That water might seep through the sand without -evaporation, without loss, from the poles to the equator of Mars--seep -unimpeded, so that moisture might reach the lichen plants of everyone, -so that none might thirst or hunger. - -The seepage must flow. Not even buried in the dim racial memory had -there ever been one who took more than his share, for this would be like -the fingers of one hand stealing blood from the fingers of the other. - -Among the Mars race there were many words for contentment, kinship of -each to all. There were words to express the ecstasy of watching the -eternal stars, by night and by day, through the thin blackish -atmosphere. There were words to express the joy of opening slitted -nostrils to breathe deeply in those protected places where the blowing -sands did not swirl, of opening folds of rubbery skin to catch the weak -rays of the distant Sun. - -But there were no words for "mine" as separate from "yours." And there -was no urge to cry out, "Why am I here? What is the purpose of it all?" - -Each had his purpose, serene, unquestioning. Each repaired or extended -the seepage canals so that others, unborn, might know the same joys and -ecstasies as they. The work was in itself a part of the total joy, and -they resisted it no more than healthy lungs resist clear, cool air. - -So far back that even the concept of beginnings had been forgotten, the -interwoven fabric of their symbiotic interdependence seeped through -their lives as naturally as the precious water seeped through the canal -sands. As far back as that, they had achieved civilization. - -Their kind of civilization. - - ---- - -Captain Griswold maintained an impassive face. (Let that, too, be a part -of the legend.) Without expression, he looked through the screen at the -red land flashing below the ship. But unconsciously he squared his -shoulders, breathed deeply, enjoying the virile pull of his uniform over -his expanding chest. Resolutely he pushed aside the vision of countless -generations of school children, yet to come, repeating the lesson -dutifully to their teachers. - -"Captain Thomas H. Griswold took possession of Mars, June 14, 2018." - -No, he must not allow any mood of vanity to spoil his own memories of -this moment. It was beside the point that his name would rank with the -great names of all times. Still, the history of the moment could not be -denied. - -Lieutenant Atkinson's voice broke through his preoccupation, and saved -him the immodest thought of wondering if perhaps his cap visor might not -be worn a little more rakishly to one side. He must father a custom, -something distinctive of those who had been to Mars-- - -"Another canal, sir." - -Below them, a straight line of gray-green stretched to the horizon, -contrasting sharply with the red ferrous oxide of the landscape. An -entire planet of ferrous oxide--iron--steel for the already starving -technology of the Western Alliance. The captain felt a momentary -irritation that even this narrow swath displaced the precious iron ore. - -Obviously these canals served no purpose. His ship had circled the -planet at its equator, and again from pole to pole. Canals everywhere, -but nothing else. Enough time and fuel had been wasted. They must land. -Obviously there was no intelligent life. But the history of the moment -must not be marred by any haste. There must be no question within the -books yet to be written. There must be no accredited voice of criticism -raised. - -"My compliments to Mr. Berkeley," he said harshly to Lt. Atkinson, "and -would he kindly step to the control room?" He paused and added dryly, -"At his convenience." - -Mister Berkeley, indeed. What was it they called the civilian--an -ethnologist? A fellow who was supposed to be an authority on races, -civilizations, mores and customs of groups. Well, the man was excess -baggage. There would be no races to contact here. A good thing, too. -These civilian experts with their theories--show them a tooth and -they'll dream up a monster. Show them a fingernail paring and they'll -deduce a civilization from it. Nonsense! - -"You wanted to see me, Captain?" The voice was young, quiet, controlled. - - ---- - -Without haste, Captain Griswold turned and faced Berkeley. Not only a -theorist, but a young theorist. These super-bright young men with their -sharp blue eyes. A lot of learning and no knowledge. A lot of wisdom and -no common sense. He carefully controlled his voice, concealing his lack -of respect for the civilian. - -"Well, Mr. Berkeley, we have quartered the globe. We have seen no -evidence of civilization." - -"You discount the canals, Captain?" Berkeley asked, as if more from -curiosity than refutation. - -"I must discount them," the captain answered decisively. "Over all the -planet we have seen no buildings, not even ruins, no evidence at all -that intelligence exists here." - -"I consider straight lines, running half the length of a world, to be -evidence of something, sir." It was a flat statement, given without -emphasis. - -Arguments! Arguments! Little men who have to inflate themselves into a -stature of importance--destroy the sacred history of the moment. But -quietly now. There must be no memory of petty conflict. - -"Where are their buildings, Mr. Berkeley?" he asked with patient -tolerance. "Where are their factories? The smoke from their factories? -The highways? The transportation facilities? Where are the airplanes? -Even this thin air would support a fast jet. I do not require they have -spaceships, Mr. Berkeley, to concede them intelligence. I do not require -they be the equal of Man. I also have some scientific training. And my -training tells me I cannot recognize the existence of something where -there is no evidence at all." - -"The canals," Berkeley answered. His voice also was controlled, for he, -too, knew the history of this moment. But his concern was not for his -own name in the history books. He knew only too well what its writers -did to individuals for the sake of expediency. His concern was that this -moment never be one of deep shame for Man. "Perhaps they have no -buildings, no factory smoke, because they don't need them. Perhaps they -don't have highways because they don't want to go anywhere. Perhaps -their concept of living is completely unlike ours." - - ---- - -Griswold shrugged his shoulders. "We speak an entirely different -language, Mr. Berkeley." - -"I'm afraid you're right, Captain," Berkeley sighed. "And it might be a -tragic thing that we do. Remember, European man spoke a different -language from that of the American Indian, the Mayan, Polynesian, -African, Indonesian--" He broke off as if the list were endless. "I ask -only that we don't hasten into the same errors all over again." - -"We can't hover here above the surface forever," Griswold said -irritably. "We have quartered the globe. The other experts are anxious -to land, so they can get to their work. We have made a search for your -civilization and we have not found it." - -"I withdraw all objections to landing, Captain. You are entirely -correct. We must land." - -The intercom on the wall squawked into life. - -"Observation to Control. Observation to Control. Network of canals -forming a junction ahead." - -"Prepare for landing, Lieutenant Atkinson," Griswold commanded sharply. -"At the junction." He turned and watched the screen. "There, Mr. -Berkeley, dead ahead. A dozen--at least a dozen of your canals joining -at one spot. Surely, if there were a civilization at all, you would find -it at such a spot." Slowly and carefully, he constructed the pages of -history. "I do not wish the implication ever to arise that this ship's -commander, or any of its personnel, failed to cooperate in every way -with the scientific authorities aboard." - -"I know that, Captain," Berkeley answered. "And I agree. The junction, -then." - - ---- - -The sigh of servo-mechanism, the flare of intolerably hot blue flame, -and the ship stood motionless above the junction of canals. Ponderously, -slowly, she settled; held aloft by the pillars of flame beneath her, -directly above the junction, fusing the sand in the canals to glass, -exploding their walls with steam. Within their warm and protected -burrows beside the canals, slitted nostrils closed, iris of eyes -contracted, fluted layers of skin opened and pulled tight, and opened -again convulsively in the reflexes of death. - -There was a slight jar only as the ship settled to the ground, bathed in -the mushrooming flame. - -"A good landing, Lieutenant," Captain Griswold complimented. "A good -landing, indeed." - -His head came up and he watched the screen to see the landscape reappear -through the dust and steam. - -"Prepare to disembark in approximately six hours, Lieutenant. The heat -should have subsided sufficiently by then. The ship's officers, the -civ--er--scientific party, a complement of men. I will lead the way. -You, Lieutenant, will carry the flag and the necessary appurtenances to -the ceremony. We will hold it without delay." - -Berkeley was watching the screen also. He wondered what the effect of -the landing heat would be on the canals. He wondered why it had been -considered necessary to land squarely on the junction; why Man always, -as if instinctively, does the most destructive thing he can. - -He shrugged it away. Wherever they landed might have been the wrong -place. - - ---- - -Farther along the canals, where the heat had not reached, the Mars race -began to emerge from their protecting burrows. They had seen the meteor -hurtling downward, and it was part of their conditioning to seek their -burrows when any threatening phenomenon occurred. - -Flaming meteors had fallen before, but never in the interlocked racial -mind was there memory of one which had fallen directly on a canal -junction. Within the fabric of their instinct, they sensed the fused -sand, the broken clay walls, the water boiling through the broken walls, -wasted. They sensed the waters on the other side of the barrier seeping -onward, leaving sand unfilled. Within the nerves of their own bodies -they felt the anticipated pangs of tendril roots searching down into the -sand for water, and not finding it. - -The urgency came upon them, all within the region, to remove this -meteor; restore the canals as soon as the heat would permit. They began -to gather, circling the meteor, circling the scorched ground around it. -The urgency of getting at it before there was too much water lost drove -them in upon the hot ground. - -The unaccustomed heat held them back. They milled uncertainly, in -increasing numbers, around the meteor. - - ---- - -Since Captain Griswold had not asked him to leave the control room -during landing operations, Berkeley still stood and watched the screen. -At the first appearance of the Mars race emerging from the soil, he -exclaimed in great excitement: - -"There they are! There they are, Captain!" - -Griswold came over and stood beside him, watching the screen. His eyes -widened. - -"Horrible," he muttered in revulsion. The gorge arose in his throat and -stopped his speech for a moment. But history took possession of him -again. "I suppose we will get accustomed to their appearance in time," -he conceded. - -"They're the builders, Captain. Wonderful!" Berkeley exulted. "Those -shovel-shaped forelimbs--they're the builders!" - -"Perhaps," Griswold agreed. "But in the way a mole or gopher--still, if -they were intelligent enough to be trained for mining operations--but -then you certainly cannot call these things intelligent, Mr. Berkeley." - -"How do we know, Captain?" - -But the Captain was looking about vainly for buildings, for factory -smoke, for highways. - -"Lieutenant Atkinson!" he called. - -"Yes, sir." - -"Send an immediate order throughout the ship. The Mars things are not to -be molested." He glanced at Berkeley as he gave the order, and then -glanced away. "Double the complement of men on the landing party and see -that they are fully armed." Then back to Berkeley, "A good leader guards -against every contingency. But there will be no indiscriminate -slaughter. You may be assured of that. I am as anxious as you that -Man--" - -"Thank you, Captain," Berkeley answered. "And the planting of the flag? -The taking possession?" - -"Well, now, Mr. Berkeley, what shall we do, now that we have seen -some--things? Go away? Leave an entire planet of iron ore to be claimed -later by Eastern Alliance? The enemy is not far behind us in their -technology, Mr. Berkeley." - -He warmed to his theme, his head came up, his shoulders back. - -"Suppose these things are intelligent. Suppose they do have feelings of -one kind or another. What would happen to them if the Eastern Alliance -laid claim to this planet? Under us, at least, they will have -protection. We will set aside reservations where they may live in peace. -Obviously they live in burrows in the ground; I see no buildings. Their -total food supply must be these miserable plants. What a miserable -existence they have now! - -"We will change that. We will provide them with adequate food, the food -to fill their empty stomachs--if they have stomachs. We will clothe -their repulsive nakedness. If they have enough sense to learn, we will -give them the pride of self-employment in our mines and factories. We -would be less than human, Mr. Berkeley, if we did not acknowledge our -duty." - -The light of noble intention shone in his face. He was swept away with -his own eloquence. - -"If," he finished, "we take care of the duty, the destiny will take care -of itself!" - -That was very good. He hoped they would have the grace to quote him on -that. It was a fine summing up of his entire character. - -Berkeley smiled a rueful smile. There was no stopping it. It was not a -matter of not planting the flag, not taking possession. The captain was -right. If not the Western Alliance, then certainly the Eastern Alliance. -His quarrel was not with the captain nor with the duty, but with the -destiny. The issue was not to be decided now. It had already been -decided--decided when the first apeman had crept into the tree nest of -another and stolen his mate. - -Man takes. Whether it be by barbaric rapine, or reluctant acceptance of -duty through carefully contrived diplomacy, Man takes. - -Berkeley turned and made his way out of the control room. - - ---- - -Outside, the soil shifted in its contortions of cooling. The wind -whispered dryly over the red landscape, sending up little swirls of -dust, eternally shifting it from one place to another. The soil was less -hot, and as it cooled, the Mars race pressed inward. Theirs was the -urgency to get at this meteor as quickly as possible, remove it, start -the water flowing once more. - -"Observation reports ground cool enough for landing!" The magic words -seemed to sing into the control cabin. - -"Summon all landing party," Captain Griswold commanded immediately. - -The signal bells rang throughout the ship. The bell in the supercargo -cabin rang also. With the other scientists, Berkeley dressed in his -protecting suit, fitted the clear glassite oxygen helmet over his head, -fastened it. Together with the rest, he stood at the designated airlock -to await the captain's coming. - -And the captain did not keep them waiting. At precisely the right -moment, with only a flicker of a side glance at the photographic -equipment, the captain strode ahead of his officers to the airlock. The -sealing doors of the corridor behind them closed, shutting off the -entire party, making the corridor itself into a great airlock. - -There was a long sigh, and the great beams of the locks moved -ponderously against their weight. There was the rush of air from the -corridor as the heavier pressure rushed out through the opening locks, -to equalize with the thin air of Mars. With the air rushed outward -fungus spores, virus, microbes; most of them to perish under the alien -conditions, but some to survive--and thrive. - -The red light above the lock was blinking on-off-on-off. The officers, -the scientists, the armed men, watched the light intently. It blinked -off for the last time. The locks were open. The great ramp settled to -the ground. - - ---- - -In ordered, military file, the captain at their head, the landing party -passed down the corridor, through the locks, out upon the ramp beneath -the blue-black sky; and down to the red soil. Captain Griswold was the -first man to set foot on Mars, June 14, 2018. The photographers were -second. - -Now the Mars race was moving closer to the ship, but the ground was -still too hot for their unprotected feet. The pressing need for removing -the meteor possessed them. The movement of the men disembarking from the -ship was to them no more than another unintelligible aspect of this -incredible meteor. - -The sound of a bugle pierced the thin air, picked up by the loudspeaker -from the ship, reverberating through their helmets. The landing party -formed a semi-circle at the foot of the ramp. - -Captain Griswold, his face as rigidly set as the marble statuary of him -to follow, reached out and took the flag from Lieutenant Atkinson. He -planted it firmly, without false motion, in the framework one of the men -had set upon the baked ground to receive it. - -He pointed to the north, the south, the east, the west. He brought his -hands together, palms downward, arms fully out-stretched in front of -him. He spread his arms wide open and down, then back together and up; -completing a circle which encompassed all the planet. He held out his -right hand and received the scroll from Lieutenant Atkinson. - -With a decisive gesture, not quite theatrical, he unfurled the scroll. -He read in a voice firm enough to impress all posterity: - -"By virtue of authority invested in me from the Supreme Council of the -Western Alliance, the only true representatives of Earth and Man, I take -possession of all this planet in the name of our President, the Supreme -Council, the Western Alliance, Earth, and in the name of God." - - ---- - -The ground was cool enough now that their feet might bear it. The pain -was great, but it was lost in the greater pain of feeling the killing -obstruction the great meteor had brought to their canals. The Mars race -began to press inward, inexorably. - -It was in the anticlimactic moment, following the possession ceremony, -when men milled around in uncertainty, that Lt. Atkinson saw the Mars -race had come closer and were still moving. - -"The monsters!" he exclaimed in horror. "They're attacking!" - -Berkeley looked, and from the little gestures of movement out of his -long training he deduced their true motive. - -"Not against us!" he cried. "The ship." - -Perhaps his words were more unfortunate than his silence might have -been; for the ship was of greater concern to Captain Griswold than his -own person. - -"Halt!" Griswold shouted toward the approaching Mars race. "Halt or I'll -fire!" - -The Mars race paid no heed. Slowly they came forward, each step on the -hot ground a torture, but a pain which could be borne. The greater -torture, the one they could not bear, was the ache to press against this -meteor, push it away, that they might dig the juncture clean again. As a -man whose breath is stopped fights frantically for air, concerned with -nothing else, so they felt the desperation of drying sands. - -They came on. - -"For the last time," Griswold shouted, "halt!" He made a motion with his -hands, as if to push them back, as if to convey his meaning by signs. -Involuntarily, then, his eyes sought those of Berkeley. A look of -pleading, helplessness. Berkeley met the glance and read the anxiety -there, the tragic unwillingness of the man to arouse posterity's rage or -contempt. - -It was a brief glance only from both men and it was over. Captain -Griswold's head came up; his shoulders straightened in the face of the -oncoming monsters. They were close now, and coming closer. As always, -the experts were free with their advice when it was not needed. When the -chips were down, they could do no more than smirk and shrug a helpless -shoulder. - -He gave the command, and now there was no uncertainty. - -"Fire!" - - ---- - -The celebration was being held in the Great Stadium, the largest, most -costly structure that Man had ever built. It was a fitting structure for -the more important football games; and used on occasion, if they could -be fitted in without upsetting the schedule, for State affairs. Now the -stadium was filled to capacity, its floor churned by the careless feet -of the thousands upon thousands who had managed to obtain an entrance. - -From the quarter-mile-high tiers of seats, from the floor of the -stadium, the shouts welled up, washing over the platform at the North -end. - -"Griswold! Griswold!" - -It was not yet time for history to assess the justice of the massacre. - -The President raised his hand. The battery of video cameras picked up -each move. - -"Our hopes, our fears, our hearts, our prayers rode through every -space-dark, star-flecked mile with these glorious pioneers." He turned -then to the captain. "For the people of Earth, _Admiral_ Griswold, this -medal. A new medal for a Guider of Destiny, Maker of Empire, Son of -Man!" - -The voice faltered, stopped. - -The crowd on the floor of the stadium was pressing outward from the -center, screaming in pain and terror. At the moment when the people -should be quiet, rapt in reverence, they were emptying the floor of the -stadium. But not willingly. They were being pressed back and out, as a -great weight pushes its way through water. Those who could move outward -no farther were crushed where they stood. - -And then the ship appeared. - -Hazy of outline, shimmering with impossible angles, seen by its glinting -fire of light rather than by its solid form, as if its reality were in -some other dimension and this only a projection, the ship appeared. - -The President's hand reached out and gripped Griswold's shoulder as he -leaned back and back, trying to determine its vast height. A silence -then clutched the crowd--a terrified silence. - -A full minute passed. Even on the platform, where all the pioneers of -Mars were assembled with Earth's dignitaries, even there the people -cowered back away from this unseeable, unknowable horror. - -But one man leaned forward instead, frantically studying the shimmering -outline of the ship. One man--Berkeley. - -With the training of the ethnologist, a man who really can deduce an -entire civilization from mystifying data, he recognized the tremendous -import. - -At the end of that minute, without warning, a group of figures hovered -in the air near the floor of the stadium. - - ---- - -Quickly, Berkeley's eyes assessed their form, their color, the -increasing solidity of the humanoids. There are some movements, some -gestures, common to all things of intelligence--the pause, the -resolution, the lift of pride. - -"No!" he screamed and started forward. "Oh, no! We're civilized. We're -intelligent!" He was pulled back, as in his terror he tried to leap from -the platform to get at the humanoids. - -Held there, unable to move, he read the meaning of the actions of the -group hovering near the ship. One flashed a shining tentacle around, as -if to point to the stadium, the pitifully small spaceship on display, -the crowds of people. - -The leader manifestly ignored him. He flowed forward a pace, his ovoid -head held high in pride and arrogance. He pointed a tentacle toward the -south end of the stadium, and a pillar of leaping flame arose; fed with -no fuel, never to cease its fire, the symbol of possession. - -He pointed his tentacles to the north, the south, the east, the west. He -motioned with his tentacles, as if to encircle all of Earth. - -He unfurled a scroll and began to read. - ---MARK CLIFTON & ALEX APOSTOLIDES - - _Transcribers note_: This etext was produced from Galaxy Science - Fiction August 1953. 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- | :xl:`WE'RE CIVILIZED!`
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- | By MARK CLIFTON and ALEX APOSTOLIDES
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- *Naturally, the superior race
- should win ... but superior by
- which standards ... and whose?*
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- Illustrated by BALBALIS
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-The females and children
-worked among the lichen
-growth, picking off the fattest,
-ripest leaves for their food
-and moisture, completing their
-arc of the circle of symbiosis.
-
-The males worked at the surface
-of the canals, or in open
-excavations. Their wide, mutated
-hands chipped into the rock-hard
-clay, opening a channel which
-was to be filled with sand and
-then sealed off with clay on all
-sides and surface. That water
-might seep through the sand
-without evaporation, without
-loss, from the poles to the equator
-of Mars—seep unimpeded, so
-that moisture might reach the
-lichen plants of everyone, so that
-none might thirst or hunger.
-
-The seepage must flow. Not
-even buried in the dim racial
-memory had there ever been one
-who took more than his share,
-for this would be like the fingers
-of one hand stealing blood from
-the fingers of the other.
-
-Among the Mars race there
-were many words for contentment,
-kinship of each to all.
-There were words to express the
-ecstasy of watching the eternal
-stars, by night and by day,
-through the thin blackish atmosphere.
-There were words to express
-the joy of opening slitted
-nostrils to breathe deeply in those
-protected places where the blowing
-sands did not swirl, of opening
-folds of rubbery skin to catch
-the weak rays of the distant Sun.
-
-But there were no words for
-"mine" as separate from "yours."
-And there was no urge to cry
-out, "Why am I here? What is
-the purpose of it all?"
-
-Each had his purpose, serene,
-unquestioning. Each repaired or
-extended the seepage canals so
-that others, unborn, might know
-the same joys and ecstasies as
-they. The work was in itself a
-part of the total joy, and they
-resisted it no more than healthy
-lungs resist clear, cool air.
-
-So far back that even the concept
-of beginnings had been forgotten,
-the interwoven fabric of
-their symbiotic interdependence
-seeped through their lives as naturally
-as the precious water
-seeped through the canal sands.
-As far back as that, they had
-achieved civilization.
-
-Their kind of civilization.
-
------
-
-Captain Griswold maintained
-an impassive face. (Let that,
-too, be a part of the legend.)
-Without expression, he looked
-through the screen at the red land
-flashing below the ship. But unconsciously
-he squared his shoulders,
-breathed deeply, enjoying
-the virile pull of his uniform over
-his expanding chest. Resolutely
-he pushed aside the vision of
-countless generations of school
-children, yet to come, repeating
-the lesson dutifully to their
-teachers.
-
-"Captain Thomas H. Griswold
-took possession of Mars, June
-14, 2018."
-
-No, he must not allow any
-mood of vanity to spoil his own
-memories of this moment. It was
-beside the point that his name
-would rank with the great names
-of all times. Still, the history of
-the moment could not be denied.
-
-Lieutenant Atkinson's voice
-broke through his preoccupation,
-and saved him the immodest
-thought of wondering if perhaps
-his cap visor might not be worn
-a little more rakishly to one side.
-He must father a custom, something
-distinctive of those who
-had been to Mars—
-
-"Another canal, sir."
-
-Below them, a straight line of
-gray-green stretched to the horizon,
-contrasting sharply with the
-red ferrous oxide of the landscape.
-An entire planet of ferrous
-oxide—iron—steel for the already
-starving technology of the Western
-Alliance. The captain felt a momentary
-irritation that even this
-narrow swath displaced the precious
-iron ore.
-
-Obviously these canals served
-no purpose. His ship had circled
-the planet at its equator, and
-again from pole to pole. Canals
-everywhere, but nothing else.
-Enough time and fuel had been
-wasted. They must land. Obviously
-there was no intelligent life.
-But the history of the moment
-must not be marred by any
-haste. There must be no question
-within the books yet to be written.
-There must be no accredited
-voice of criticism raised.
-
-"My compliments to Mr. Berkeley,"
-he said harshly to Lt. Atkinson,
-"and would he kindly
-step to the control room?" He
-paused and added dryly, "At his
-convenience."
-
-Mister Berkeley, indeed. What
-was it they called the civilian—an
-ethnologist? A fellow who was
-supposed to be an authority on
-races, civilizations, mores and
-customs of groups. Well, the man
-was excess baggage. There would
-be no races to contact here. A
-good thing, too. These civilian
-experts with their theories—show
-them a tooth and they'll dream
-up a monster. Show them a
-fingernail paring and they'll deduce
-a civilization from it. Nonsense!
-
-"You wanted to see me, Captain?"
-The voice was young,
-quiet, controlled.
-
------
-
-Without haste, Captain
-Griswold turned and faced
-Berkeley. Not only a theorist, but
-a young theorist. These super-bright
-young men with their
-sharp blue eyes. A lot of learning
-and no knowledge. A lot of wisdom
-and no common sense. He
-carefully controlled his voice,
-concealing his lack of respect for
-the civilian.
-
-"Well, Mr. Berkeley, we have
-quartered the globe. We have seen
-no evidence of civilization."
-
-"You discount the canals, Captain?"
-Berkeley asked, as if more
-from curiosity than refutation.
-
-"I must discount them," the
-captain answered decisively.
-"Over all the planet we have seen
-no buildings, not even ruins, no
-evidence at all that intelligence
-exists here."
-
-"I consider straight lines, running
-half the length of a world,
-to be evidence of something, sir."
-It was a flat statement, given
-without emphasis.
-
-Arguments! Arguments! Little
-men who have to inflate themselves
-into a stature of importance—destroy
-the sacred history
-of the moment. But quietly now.
-There must be no memory of
-petty conflict.
-
-"Where are their buildings, Mr.
-Berkeley?" he asked with patient
-tolerance. "Where are their factories?
-The smoke from their factories?
-The highways? The
-transportation facilities? Where
-are the airplanes? Even this thin
-air would support a fast jet. I
-do not require they have spaceships,
-Mr. Berkeley, to concede
-them intelligence. I do not require
-they be the equal of Man.
-I also have some scientific training.
-And my training tells me I
-cannot recognize the existence of
-something where there is no evidence
-at all."
-
-"The canals," Berkeley answered.
-His voice also was controlled,
-for he, too, knew the
-history of this moment. But his
-concern was not for his own name
-in the history books. He knew
-only too well what its writers did
-to individuals for the sake of
-expediency. His concern was that
-this moment never be one of deep
-shame for Man. "Perhaps they
-have no buildings, no factory
-smoke, because they don't need
-them. Perhaps they don't have
-highways because they don't
-want to go anywhere. Perhaps
-their concept of living is completely
-unlike ours."
-
------
-
-Griswold shrugged his
-shoulders. "We speak an entirely
-different language, Mr.
-Berkeley."
-
-"I'm afraid you're right, Captain,"
-Berkeley sighed. "And it
-might be a tragic thing that we
-do. Remember, European man
-spoke a different language from
-that of the American Indian, the
-Mayan, Polynesian, African, Indonesian—"
-He broke off as if
-the list were endless. "I ask only
-that we don't hasten into the
-same errors all over again."
-
-"We can't hover here above the
-surface forever," Griswold said
-irritably. "We have quartered the
-globe. The other experts are
-anxious to land, so they can get
-to their work. We have made a
-search for your civilization and
-we have not found it."
-
-"I withdraw all objections to
-landing, Captain. You are entirely
-correct. We must land."
-
-The intercom on the wall
-squawked into life.
-
-"Observation to Control. Observation
-to Control. Network of
-canals forming a junction ahead."
-
-"Prepare for landing, Lieutenant
-Atkinson," Griswold commanded
-sharply. "At the junction."
-He turned and watched the
-screen. "There, Mr. Berkeley,
-dead ahead. A dozen—at least a
-dozen of your canals joining at
-one spot. Surely, if there were a
-civilization at all, you would find
-it at such a spot." Slowly and
-carefully, he constructed the
-pages of history. "I do not wish
-the implication ever to arise that
-this ship's commander, or any
-of its personnel, failed to cooperate
-in every way with the
-scientific authorities aboard."
-
-"I know that, Captain," Berkeley
-answered. "And I agree. The
-junction, then."
-
------
-
-The sigh of servo-mechanism,
-the flare of intolerably hot
-blue flame, and the ship stood
-motionless above the junction of
-canals. Ponderously, slowly, she
-settled; held aloft by the pillars
-of flame beneath her, directly
-above the junction, fusing the
-sand in the canals to glass, exploding
-their walls with steam.
-Within their warm and protected
-burrows beside the canals, slitted
-nostrils closed, iris of eyes contracted,
-fluted layers of skin
-opened and pulled tight, and
-opened again convulsively in the
-reflexes of death.
-
-There was a slight jar only as
-the ship settled to the ground,
-bathed in the mushrooming
-flame.
-
-"A good landing, Lieutenant,"
-Captain Griswold complimented.
-"A good landing, indeed."
-
-His head came up and he
-watched the screen to see the
-landscape reappear through the
-dust and steam.
-
-"Prepare to disembark in approximately
-six hours, Lieutenant.
-The heat should have subsided
-sufficiently by then. The
-ship's officers, the civ—er—scientific
-party, a complement of men.
-I will lead the way. You, Lieutenant,
-will carry the flag and
-the necessary appurtenances to
-the ceremony. We will hold it
-without delay."
-
-Berkeley was watching the
-screen also. He wondered what
-the effect of the landing heat
-would be on the canals. He wondered
-why it had been considered
-necessary to land squarely on the
-junction; why Man always, as if
-instinctively, does the most destructive
-thing he can.
-
-He shrugged it away. Wherever
-they landed might have been the
-wrong place.
-
------
-
-Farther along the canals,
-where the heat had not
-reached, the Mars race began to
-emerge from their protecting burrows.
-They had seen the meteor
-hurtling downward, and it was
-part of their conditioning to seek
-their burrows when any threatening
-phenomenon occurred.
-
-Flaming meteors had fallen before,
-but never in the interlocked
-racial mind was there memory of
-one which had fallen directly on
-a canal junction. Within the fabric
-of their instinct, they sensed
-the fused sand, the broken clay
-walls, the water boiling through
-the broken walls, wasted. They
-sensed the waters on the other
-side of the barrier seeping onward,
-leaving sand unfilled.
-Within the nerves of their own
-bodies they felt the anticipated
-pangs of tendril roots searching
-down into the sand for water, and
-not finding it.
-
-The urgency came upon them,
-all within the region, to remove
-this meteor; restore the canals
-as soon as the heat would permit.
-They began to gather, circling the
-meteor, circling the scorched
-ground around it. The urgency of
-getting at it before there was too
-much water lost drove them in
-upon the hot ground.
-
-The unaccustomed heat held
-them back. They milled uncertainly,
-in increasing numbers,
-around the meteor.
-
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-
-Since Captain Griswold had
-not asked him to leave the
-control room during landing
-operations, Berkeley still stood
-and watched the screen. At the
-first appearance of the Mars race
-emerging from the soil, he exclaimed
-in great excitement:
-
-"There they are! There they
-are, Captain!"
-
-Griswold came over and stood
-beside him, watching the screen.
-His eyes widened.
-
-"Horrible," he muttered in revulsion.
-The gorge arose in his
-throat and stopped his speech for
-a moment. But history took possession
-of him again. "I suppose
-we will get accustomed to their
-appearance in time," he conceded.
-
-"They're the builders, Captain.
-Wonderful!" Berkeley exulted.
-"Those shovel-shaped forelimbs—they're
-the builders!"
-
-"Perhaps," Griswold agreed.
-"But in the way a mole or gopher—still,
-if they were intelligent
-enough to be trained for mining
-operations—but then you certainly
-cannot call these things intelligent,
-Mr. Berkeley."
-
-"How do we know, Captain?"
-
-But the Captain was looking
-about vainly for buildings, for
-factory smoke, for highways.
-
-"Lieutenant Atkinson!" he
-called.
-
-"Yes, sir."
-
-"Send an immediate order
-throughout the ship. The Mars
-things are not to be molested."
-He glanced at Berkeley as he
-gave the order, and then glanced
-away. "Double the complement
-of men on the landing party and
-see that they are fully armed."
-Then back to Berkeley, "A good
-leader guards against every contingency.
-But there will be no
-indiscriminate slaughter. You
-may be assured of that. I am as
-anxious as you that Man—"
-
-"Thank you, Captain," Berkeley
-answered. "And the planting
-of the flag? The taking possession?"
-
-"Well, now, Mr. Berkeley,
-what shall we do, now that we
-have seen some—things? Go
-away? Leave an entire planet of
-iron ore to be claimed later by
-Eastern Alliance? The enemy is
-not far behind us in their technology,
-Mr. Berkeley."
-
-He warmed to his theme, his
-head came up, his shoulders back.
-
-"Suppose these things are intelligent.
-Suppose they do have
-feelings of one kind or another.
-What would happen to them if
-the Eastern Alliance laid claim
-to this planet? Under us, at least,
-they will have protection. We will
-set aside reservations where they
-may live in peace. Obviously they
-live in burrows in the ground; I
-see no buildings. Their total food
-supply must be these miserable
-plants. What a miserable existence
-they have now!
-
-"We will change that. We will
-provide them with adequate food,
-the food to fill their empty stomachs—if
-they have stomachs. We
-will clothe their repulsive nakedness.
-If they have enough sense
-to learn, we will give them the
-pride of self-employment in our
-mines and factories. We would
-be less than human, Mr. Berkeley,
-if we did not acknowledge
-our duty."
-
-The light of noble intention
-shone in his face. He was swept
-away with his own eloquence.
-
-"If," he finished, "we take care
-of the duty, the destiny will take
-care of itself!"
-
-That was very good. He hoped
-they would have the grace to
-quote him on that. It was a fine
-summing up of his entire character.
-
-Berkeley smiled a rueful smile.
-There was no stopping it. It was
-not a matter of not planting the
-flag, not taking possession. The
-captain was right. If not the Western
-Alliance, then certainly the
-Eastern Alliance. His quarrel was
-not with the captain nor with
-the duty, but with the destiny.
-The issue was not to be decided
-now. It had already been decided—decided
-when the first apeman
-had crept into the tree nest of
-another and stolen his mate.
-
-Man takes. Whether it be by
-barbaric rapine, or reluctant acceptance
-of duty through carefully
-contrived diplomacy, Man
-takes.
-
-Berkeley turned and made his
-way out of the control room.
-
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-
-Outside, the soil shifted in
-its contortions of cooling.
-The wind whispered dryly over
-the red landscape, sending up
-little swirls of dust, eternally
-shifting it from one place to another.
-The soil was less hot, and
-as it cooled, the Mars race
-pressed inward. Theirs was the
-urgency to get at this meteor as
-quickly as possible, remove it,
-start the water flowing once more.
-
-"Observation reports ground
-cool enough for landing!" The
-magic words seemed to sing into
-the control cabin.
-
-"Summon all landing party,"
-Captain Griswold commanded
-immediately.
-
-The signal bells rang throughout
-the ship. The bell in the
-supercargo cabin rang also. With
-the other scientists, Berkeley
-dressed in his protecting suit,
-fitted the clear glassite oxygen
-helmet over his head, fastened it.
-Together with the rest, he stood
-at the designated airlock to await
-the captain's coming.
-
-And the captain did not keep
-them waiting. At precisely the
-right moment, with only a flicker
-of a side glance at the photographic
-equipment, the captain
-strode ahead of his officers to the
-airlock. The sealing doors of the
-corridor behind them closed,
-shutting off the entire party,
-making the corridor itself into a
-great airlock.
-
-There was a long sigh, and the
-great beams of the locks moved
-ponderously against their weight.
-There was the rush of air from
-the corridor as the heavier pressure
-rushed out through the
-opening locks, to equalize with
-the thin air of Mars. With the
-air rushed outward fungus spores,
-virus, microbes; most of them to
-perish under the alien conditions,
-but some to survive—and thrive.
-
-The red light above the lock
-was blinking on-off-on-off. The
-officers, the scientists, the armed
-men, watched the light intently.
-It blinked off for the last time.
-The locks were open. The great
-ramp settled to the ground.
-
------
-
-In ordered, military file, the
-captain at their head, the
-landing party passed down the
-corridor, through the locks, out
-upon the ramp beneath the blue-black
-sky; and down to the red
-soil. Captain Griswold was the
-first man to set foot on Mars,
-June 14, 2018. The photographers
-were second.
-
-Now the Mars race was moving
-closer to the ship, but the
-ground was still too hot for their
-unprotected feet. The pressing
-need for removing the meteor
-possessed them. The movement of
-the men disembarking from the
-ship was to them no more than
-another unintelligible aspect of
-this incredible meteor.
-
-The sound of a bugle pierced
-the thin air, picked up by the
-loudspeaker from the ship, reverberating
-through their helmets.
-The landing party formed a
-semi-circle at the foot of the
-ramp.
-
-Captain Griswold, his face as
-rigidly set as the marble statuary
-of him to follow, reached out and
-took the flag from Lieutenant
-Atkinson. He planted it firmly,
-without false motion, in the
-framework one of the men had
-set upon the baked ground to
-receive it.
-
-He pointed to the north, the
-south, the east, the west. He
-brought his hands together, palms
-downward, arms fully out-stretched
-in front of him. He
-spread his arms wide open and
-down, then back together and up;
-completing a circle which encompassed
-all the planet. He held out
-his right hand and received the
-scroll from Lieutenant Atkinson.
-
-With a decisive gesture, not
-quite theatrical, he unfurled the
-scroll. He read in a voice firm
-enough to impress all posterity:
-
-"By virtue of authority invested
-in me from the Supreme
-Council of the Western Alliance,
-the only true representatives of
-Earth and Man, I take possession
-of all this planet in the name of
-our President, the Supreme Council,
-the Western Alliance, Earth,
-and in the name of God."
-
------
-
-The ground was cool enough
-now that their feet might bear
-it. The pain was great, but it was
-lost in the greater pain of feeling
-the killing obstruction the great
-meteor had brought to their
-canals. The Mars race began to
-press inward, inexorably.
-
-It was in the anticlimactic
-moment, following the possession
-ceremony, when men milled
-around in uncertainty, that Lt.
-Atkinson saw the Mars race had
-come closer and were still moving.
-
-"The monsters!" he exclaimed
-in horror. "They're attacking!"
-
-Berkeley looked, and from the
-little gestures of movement out
-of his long training he deduced
-their true motive.
-
-"Not against us!" he cried.
-"The ship."
-
-Perhaps his words were more
-unfortunate than his silence
-might have been; for the ship
-was of greater concern to Captain
-Griswold than his own person.
-
-"Halt!" Griswold shouted toward
-the approaching Mars race.
-"Halt or I'll fire!"
-
-The Mars race paid no heed.
-Slowly they came forward, each
-step on the hot ground a torture,
-but a pain which could be borne.
-The greater torture, the one they
-could not bear, was the ache to
-press against this meteor, push it
-away, that they might dig the
-juncture clean again. As a man
-whose breath is stopped fights
-frantically for air, concerned with
-nothing else, so they felt the desperation
-of drying sands.
-
-They came on.
-
-"For the last time," Griswold
-shouted, "halt!" He made a motion
-with his hands, as if to push
-them back, as if to convey his
-meaning by signs. Involuntarily,
-then, his eyes sought those of
-Berkeley. A look of pleading,
-helplessness. Berkeley met the
-glance and read the anxiety there,
-the tragic unwillingness of the
-man to arouse posterity's rage
-or contempt.
-
-It was a brief glance only from
-both men and it was over. Captain
-Griswold's head came up;
-his shoulders straightened in the
-face of the oncoming monsters.
-They were close now, and coming
-closer. As always, the experts
-were free with their advice when
-it was not needed. When the
-chips were down, they could do
-no more than smirk and shrug
-a helpless shoulder.
-
-He gave the command, and
-now there was no uncertainty.
-
-"Fire!"
-
------
-
-The celebration was being held
-in the Great Stadium, the
-largest, most costly structure that
-Man had ever built. It was a fitting
-structure for the more important
-football games; and used
-on occasion, if they could be
-fitted in without upsetting the
-schedule, for State affairs. Now
-the stadium was filled to capacity,
-its floor churned by the careless
-feet of the thousands upon
-thousands who had managed to
-obtain an entrance.
-
-From the quarter-mile-high
-tiers of seats, from the floor of
-the stadium, the shouts welled
-up, washing over the platform at
-the North end.
-
-"Griswold! Griswold!"
-
-It was not yet time for history
-to assess the justice of the massacre.
-
-The President raised his hand.
-The battery of video cameras
-picked up each move.
-
-"Our hopes, our fears, our
-hearts, our prayers rode through
-every space-dark, star-flecked
-mile with these glorious pioneers."
-He turned then to the
-captain. "For the people of Earth,
-*Admiral* Griswold, this medal. A
-new medal for a Guider of Destiny,
-Maker of Empire, Son of
-Man!"
-
-The voice faltered, stopped.
-
-The crowd on the floor of the
-stadium was pressing outward
-from the center, screaming in
-pain and terror. At the moment
-when the people should be quiet,
-rapt in reverence, they were emptying
-the floor of the stadium.
-But not willingly. They were being
-pressed back and out, as a
-great weight pushes its way
-through water. Those who could
-move outward no farther were
-crushed where they stood.
-
-And then the ship appeared.
-
-Hazy of outline, shimmering
-with impossible angles, seen by
-its glinting fire of light rather
-than by its solid form, as if its
-reality were in some other dimension
-and this only a projection,
-the ship appeared.
-
-The President's hand reached
-out and gripped Griswold's
-shoulder as he leaned back and
-back, trying to determine its vast
-height. A silence then clutched
-the crowd—a terrified silence.
-
-A full minute passed. Even on
-the platform, where all the pioneers
-of Mars were assembled
-with Earth's dignitaries, even
-there the people cowered back
-away from this unseeable, unknowable
-horror.
-
-But one man leaned forward
-instead, frantically studying the
-shimmering outline of the ship.
-One man—Berkeley.
-
-With the training of the ethnologist,
-a man who really can
-deduce an entire civilization from
-mystifying data, he recognized
-the tremendous import.
-
-At the end of that minute,
-without warning, a group of
-figures hovered in the air near
-the floor of the stadium.
-
------
-
-Quickly, Berkeley's eyes
-assessed their form, their
-color, the increasing solidity of
-the humanoids. There are some
-movements, some gestures, common
-to all things of intelligence—the
-pause, the resolution, the lift
-of pride.
-
-"No!" he screamed and started
-forward. "Oh, no! We're civilized.
-We're intelligent!" He was pulled
-back, as in his terror he tried to
-leap from the platform to get at
-the humanoids.
-
-Held there, unable to move, he
-read the meaning of the actions
-of the group hovering near the
-ship. One flashed a shining tentacle
-around, as if to point to the
-stadium, the pitifully small
-spaceship on display, the crowds
-of people.
-
-The leader manifestly ignored
-him. He flowed forward a pace,
-his ovoid head held high in pride
-and arrogance. He pointed a tentacle
-toward the south end of the
-stadium, and a pillar of leaping
-flame arose; fed with no fuel,
-never to cease its fire, the symbol
-of possession.
-
-He pointed his tentacles to the
-north, the south, the east, the
-west. He motioned with his tentacles,
-as if to encircle all of
-Earth.
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-He unfurled a scroll and began
-to read.
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-—MARK CLIFTON & ALEX APOSTOLIDES
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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it -under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this -eBook or online at http://www.gutenberg.org/license. - -Title: We're Civilized! - -Author: Mark Clifton and Alex Apostolides - -Release Date: December 13, 2011 [EBook #38287] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: US-ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WE'RE CIVILIZED! *** - - - - -Produced by Frank van Drogen, Greg Weeks, and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. - - WE'RE CIVILIZED! - - By MARK CLIFTON and ALEX APOSTOLIDES - - - _Naturally, the superior race should win ... but superior by - which standards ... and whose?_ - - Illustrated by BALBALIS - - -The females and children worked among the lichen growth, picking off the -fattest, ripest leaves for their food and moisture, completing their arc -of the circle of symbiosis. - -The males worked at the surface of the canals, or in open excavations. -Their wide, mutated hands chipped into the rock-hard clay, opening a -channel which was to be filled with sand and then sealed off with clay -on all sides and surface. That water might seep through the sand without -evaporation, without loss, from the poles to the equator of Mars--seep -unimpeded, so that moisture might reach the lichen plants of everyone, -so that none might thirst or hunger. - -The seepage must flow. Not even buried in the dim racial memory had -there ever been one who took more than his share, for this would be like -the fingers of one hand stealing blood from the fingers of the other. - -Among the Mars race there were many words for contentment, kinship of -each to all. There were words to express the ecstasy of watching the -eternal stars, by night and by day, through the thin blackish -atmosphere. There were words to express the joy of opening slitted -nostrils to breathe deeply in those protected places where the blowing -sands did not swirl, of opening folds of rubbery skin to catch the weak -rays of the distant Sun. - -But there were no words for "mine" as separate from "yours." And there -was no urge to cry out, "Why am I here? What is the purpose of it all?" - -Each had his purpose, serene, unquestioning. Each repaired or extended -the seepage canals so that others, unborn, might know the same joys and -ecstasies as they. The work was in itself a part of the total joy, and -they resisted it no more than healthy lungs resist clear, cool air. - -So far back that even the concept of beginnings had been forgotten, the -interwoven fabric of their symbiotic interdependence seeped through -their lives as naturally as the precious water seeped through the canal -sands. As far back as that, they had achieved civilization. - -Their kind of civilization. - - ---- - -Captain Griswold maintained an impassive face. (Let that, too, be a part -of the legend.) Without expression, he looked through the screen at the -red land flashing below the ship. But unconsciously he squared his -shoulders, breathed deeply, enjoying the virile pull of his uniform over -his expanding chest. Resolutely he pushed aside the vision of countless -generations of school children, yet to come, repeating the lesson -dutifully to their teachers. - -"Captain Thomas H. Griswold took possession of Mars, June 14, 2018." - -No, he must not allow any mood of vanity to spoil his own memories of -this moment. It was beside the point that his name would rank with the -great names of all times. Still, the history of the moment could not be -denied. - -Lieutenant Atkinson's voice broke through his preoccupation, and saved -him the immodest thought of wondering if perhaps his cap visor might not -be worn a little more rakishly to one side. He must father a custom, -something distinctive of those who had been to Mars-- - -"Another canal, sir." - -Below them, a straight line of gray-green stretched to the horizon, -contrasting sharply with the red ferrous oxide of the landscape. An -entire planet of ferrous oxide--iron--steel for the already starving -technology of the Western Alliance. The captain felt a momentary -irritation that even this narrow swath displaced the precious iron ore. - -Obviously these canals served no purpose. His ship had circled the -planet at its equator, and again from pole to pole. Canals everywhere, -but nothing else. Enough time and fuel had been wasted. They must land. -Obviously there was no intelligent life. But the history of the moment -must not be marred by any haste. There must be no question within the -books yet to be written. There must be no accredited voice of criticism -raised. - -"My compliments to Mr. Berkeley," he said harshly to Lt. Atkinson, "and -would he kindly step to the control room?" He paused and added dryly, -"At his convenience." - -Mister Berkeley, indeed. What was it they called the civilian--an -ethnologist? A fellow who was supposed to be an authority on races, -civilizations, mores and customs of groups. Well, the man was excess -baggage. There would be no races to contact here. A good thing, too. -These civilian experts with their theories--show them a tooth and -they'll dream up a monster. Show them a fingernail paring and they'll -deduce a civilization from it. Nonsense! - -"You wanted to see me, Captain?" The voice was young, quiet, controlled. - - ---- - -Without haste, Captain Griswold turned and faced Berkeley. Not only a -theorist, but a young theorist. These super-bright young men with their -sharp blue eyes. A lot of learning and no knowledge. A lot of wisdom and -no common sense. He carefully controlled his voice, concealing his lack -of respect for the civilian. - -"Well, Mr. Berkeley, we have quartered the globe. We have seen no -evidence of civilization." - -"You discount the canals, Captain?" Berkeley asked, as if more from -curiosity than refutation. - -"I must discount them," the captain answered decisively. "Over all the -planet we have seen no buildings, not even ruins, no evidence at all -that intelligence exists here." - -"I consider straight lines, running half the length of a world, to be -evidence of something, sir." It was a flat statement, given without -emphasis. - -Arguments! Arguments! Little men who have to inflate themselves into a -stature of importance--destroy the sacred history of the moment. But -quietly now. There must be no memory of petty conflict. - -"Where are their buildings, Mr. Berkeley?" he asked with patient -tolerance. "Where are their factories? The smoke from their factories? -The highways? The transportation facilities? Where are the airplanes? -Even this thin air would support a fast jet. I do not require they have -spaceships, Mr. Berkeley, to concede them intelligence. I do not require -they be the equal of Man. I also have some scientific training. And my -training tells me I cannot recognize the existence of something where -there is no evidence at all." - -"The canals," Berkeley answered. His voice also was controlled, for he, -too, knew the history of this moment. But his concern was not for his -own name in the history books. He knew only too well what its writers -did to individuals for the sake of expediency. His concern was that this -moment never be one of deep shame for Man. "Perhaps they have no -buildings, no factory smoke, because they don't need them. Perhaps they -don't have highways because they don't want to go anywhere. Perhaps -their concept of living is completely unlike ours." - - ---- - -Griswold shrugged his shoulders. "We speak an entirely different -language, Mr. Berkeley." - -"I'm afraid you're right, Captain," Berkeley sighed. "And it might be a -tragic thing that we do. Remember, European man spoke a different -language from that of the American Indian, the Mayan, Polynesian, -African, Indonesian--" He broke off as if the list were endless. "I ask -only that we don't hasten into the same errors all over again." - -"We can't hover here above the surface forever," Griswold said -irritably. "We have quartered the globe. The other experts are anxious -to land, so they can get to their work. We have made a search for your -civilization and we have not found it." - -"I withdraw all objections to landing, Captain. You are entirely -correct. We must land." - -The intercom on the wall squawked into life. - -"Observation to Control. Observation to Control. Network of canals -forming a junction ahead." - -"Prepare for landing, Lieutenant Atkinson," Griswold commanded sharply. -"At the junction." He turned and watched the screen. "There, Mr. -Berkeley, dead ahead. A dozen--at least a dozen of your canals joining -at one spot. Surely, if there were a civilization at all, you would find -it at such a spot." Slowly and carefully, he constructed the pages of -history. "I do not wish the implication ever to arise that this ship's -commander, or any of its personnel, failed to cooperate in every way -with the scientific authorities aboard." - -"I know that, Captain," Berkeley answered. "And I agree. The junction, -then." - - ---- - -The sigh of servo-mechanism, the flare of intolerably hot blue flame, -and the ship stood motionless above the junction of canals. Ponderously, -slowly, she settled; held aloft by the pillars of flame beneath her, -directly above the junction, fusing the sand in the canals to glass, -exploding their walls with steam. Within their warm and protected -burrows beside the canals, slitted nostrils closed, iris of eyes -contracted, fluted layers of skin opened and pulled tight, and opened -again convulsively in the reflexes of death. - -There was a slight jar only as the ship settled to the ground, bathed in -the mushrooming flame. - -"A good landing, Lieutenant," Captain Griswold complimented. "A good -landing, indeed." - -His head came up and he watched the screen to see the landscape reappear -through the dust and steam. - -"Prepare to disembark in approximately six hours, Lieutenant. The heat -should have subsided sufficiently by then. The ship's officers, the -civ--er--scientific party, a complement of men. I will lead the way. -You, Lieutenant, will carry the flag and the necessary appurtenances to -the ceremony. We will hold it without delay." - -Berkeley was watching the screen also. He wondered what the effect of -the landing heat would be on the canals. He wondered why it had been -considered necessary to land squarely on the junction; why Man always, -as if instinctively, does the most destructive thing he can. - -He shrugged it away. Wherever they landed might have been the wrong -place. - - ---- - -Farther along the canals, where the heat had not reached, the Mars race -began to emerge from their protecting burrows. They had seen the meteor -hurtling downward, and it was part of their conditioning to seek their -burrows when any threatening phenomenon occurred. - -Flaming meteors had fallen before, but never in the interlocked racial -mind was there memory of one which had fallen directly on a canal -junction. Within the fabric of their instinct, they sensed the fused -sand, the broken clay walls, the water boiling through the broken walls, -wasted. They sensed the waters on the other side of the barrier seeping -onward, leaving sand unfilled. Within the nerves of their own bodies -they felt the anticipated pangs of tendril roots searching down into the -sand for water, and not finding it. - -The urgency came upon them, all within the region, to remove this -meteor; restore the canals as soon as the heat would permit. They began -to gather, circling the meteor, circling the scorched ground around it. -The urgency of getting at it before there was too much water lost drove -them in upon the hot ground. - -The unaccustomed heat held them back. They milled uncertainly, in -increasing numbers, around the meteor. - - ---- - -Since Captain Griswold had not asked him to leave the control room -during landing operations, Berkeley still stood and watched the screen. -At the first appearance of the Mars race emerging from the soil, he -exclaimed in great excitement: - -"There they are! There they are, Captain!" - -Griswold came over and stood beside him, watching the screen. His eyes -widened. - -"Horrible," he muttered in revulsion. The gorge arose in his throat and -stopped his speech for a moment. But history took possession of him -again. "I suppose we will get accustomed to their appearance in time," -he conceded. - -"They're the builders, Captain. Wonderful!" Berkeley exulted. "Those -shovel-shaped forelimbs--they're the builders!" - -"Perhaps," Griswold agreed. "But in the way a mole or gopher--still, if -they were intelligent enough to be trained for mining operations--but -then you certainly cannot call these things intelligent, Mr. Berkeley." - -"How do we know, Captain?" - -But the Captain was looking about vainly for buildings, for factory -smoke, for highways. - -"Lieutenant Atkinson!" he called. - -"Yes, sir." - -"Send an immediate order throughout the ship. The Mars things are not to -be molested." He glanced at Berkeley as he gave the order, and then -glanced away. "Double the complement of men on the landing party and see -that they are fully armed." Then back to Berkeley, "A good leader guards -against every contingency. But there will be no indiscriminate -slaughter. You may be assured of that. I am as anxious as you that -Man--" - -"Thank you, Captain," Berkeley answered. "And the planting of the flag? -The taking possession?" - -"Well, now, Mr. Berkeley, what shall we do, now that we have seen -some--things? Go away? Leave an entire planet of iron ore to be claimed -later by Eastern Alliance? The enemy is not far behind us in their -technology, Mr. Berkeley." - -He warmed to his theme, his head came up, his shoulders back. - -"Suppose these things are intelligent. Suppose they do have feelings of -one kind or another. What would happen to them if the Eastern Alliance -laid claim to this planet? Under us, at least, they will have -protection. We will set aside reservations where they may live in peace. -Obviously they live in burrows in the ground; I see no buildings. Their -total food supply must be these miserable plants. What a miserable -existence they have now! - -"We will change that. We will provide them with adequate food, the food -to fill their empty stomachs--if they have stomachs. We will clothe -their repulsive nakedness. If they have enough sense to learn, we will -give them the pride of self-employment in our mines and factories. We -would be less than human, Mr. Berkeley, if we did not acknowledge our -duty." - -The light of noble intention shone in his face. He was swept away with -his own eloquence. - -"If," he finished, "we take care of the duty, the destiny will take care -of itself!" - -That was very good. He hoped they would have the grace to quote him on -that. It was a fine summing up of his entire character. - -Berkeley smiled a rueful smile. There was no stopping it. It was not a -matter of not planting the flag, not taking possession. The captain was -right. If not the Western Alliance, then certainly the Eastern Alliance. -His quarrel was not with the captain nor with the duty, but with the -destiny. The issue was not to be decided now. It had already been -decided--decided when the first apeman had crept into the tree nest of -another and stolen his mate. - -Man takes. Whether it be by barbaric rapine, or reluctant acceptance of -duty through carefully contrived diplomacy, Man takes. - -Berkeley turned and made his way out of the control room. - - ---- - -Outside, the soil shifted in its contortions of cooling. The wind -whispered dryly over the red landscape, sending up little swirls of -dust, eternally shifting it from one place to another. The soil was less -hot, and as it cooled, the Mars race pressed inward. Theirs was the -urgency to get at this meteor as quickly as possible, remove it, start -the water flowing once more. - -"Observation reports ground cool enough for landing!" The magic words -seemed to sing into the control cabin. - -"Summon all landing party," Captain Griswold commanded immediately. - -The signal bells rang throughout the ship. The bell in the supercargo -cabin rang also. With the other scientists, Berkeley dressed in his -protecting suit, fitted the clear glassite oxygen helmet over his head, -fastened it. Together with the rest, he stood at the designated airlock -to await the captain's coming. - -And the captain did not keep them waiting. At precisely the right -moment, with only a flicker of a side glance at the photographic -equipment, the captain strode ahead of his officers to the airlock. The -sealing doors of the corridor behind them closed, shutting off the -entire party, making the corridor itself into a great airlock. - -There was a long sigh, and the great beams of the locks moved -ponderously against their weight. There was the rush of air from the -corridor as the heavier pressure rushed out through the opening locks, -to equalize with the thin air of Mars. With the air rushed outward -fungus spores, virus, microbes; most of them to perish under the alien -conditions, but some to survive--and thrive. - -The red light above the lock was blinking on-off-on-off. The officers, -the scientists, the armed men, watched the light intently. It blinked -off for the last time. The locks were open. The great ramp settled to -the ground. - - ---- - -In ordered, military file, the captain at their head, the landing party -passed down the corridor, through the locks, out upon the ramp beneath -the blue-black sky; and down to the red soil. Captain Griswold was the -first man to set foot on Mars, June 14, 2018. The photographers were -second. - -Now the Mars race was moving closer to the ship, but the ground was -still too hot for their unprotected feet. The pressing need for removing -the meteor possessed them. The movement of the men disembarking from the -ship was to them no more than another unintelligible aspect of this -incredible meteor. - -The sound of a bugle pierced the thin air, picked up by the loudspeaker -from the ship, reverberating through their helmets. The landing party -formed a semi-circle at the foot of the ramp. - -Captain Griswold, his face as rigidly set as the marble statuary of him -to follow, reached out and took the flag from Lieutenant Atkinson. He -planted it firmly, without false motion, in the framework one of the men -had set upon the baked ground to receive it. - -He pointed to the north, the south, the east, the west. He brought his -hands together, palms downward, arms fully out-stretched in front of -him. He spread his arms wide open and down, then back together and up; -completing a circle which encompassed all the planet. He held out his -right hand and received the scroll from Lieutenant Atkinson. - -With a decisive gesture, not quite theatrical, he unfurled the scroll. -He read in a voice firm enough to impress all posterity: - -"By virtue of authority invested in me from the Supreme Council of the -Western Alliance, the only true representatives of Earth and Man, I take -possession of all this planet in the name of our President, the Supreme -Council, the Western Alliance, Earth, and in the name of God." - - ---- - -The ground was cool enough now that their feet might bear it. The pain -was great, but it was lost in the greater pain of feeling the killing -obstruction the great meteor had brought to their canals. The Mars race -began to press inward, inexorably. - -It was in the anticlimactic moment, following the possession ceremony, -when men milled around in uncertainty, that Lt. Atkinson saw the Mars -race had come closer and were still moving. - -"The monsters!" he exclaimed in horror. "They're attacking!" - -Berkeley looked, and from the little gestures of movement out of his -long training he deduced their true motive. - -"Not against us!" he cried. "The ship." - -Perhaps his words were more unfortunate than his silence might have -been; for the ship was of greater concern to Captain Griswold than his -own person. - -"Halt!" Griswold shouted toward the approaching Mars race. "Halt or I'll -fire!" - -The Mars race paid no heed. Slowly they came forward, each step on the -hot ground a torture, but a pain which could be borne. The greater -torture, the one they could not bear, was the ache to press against this -meteor, push it away, that they might dig the juncture clean again. As a -man whose breath is stopped fights frantically for air, concerned with -nothing else, so they felt the desperation of drying sands. - -They came on. - -"For the last time," Griswold shouted, "halt!" He made a motion with his -hands, as if to push them back, as if to convey his meaning by signs. -Involuntarily, then, his eyes sought those of Berkeley. A look of -pleading, helplessness. Berkeley met the glance and read the anxiety -there, the tragic unwillingness of the man to arouse posterity's rage or -contempt. - -It was a brief glance only from both men and it was over. Captain -Griswold's head came up; his shoulders straightened in the face of the -oncoming monsters. They were close now, and coming closer. As always, -the experts were free with their advice when it was not needed. When the -chips were down, they could do no more than smirk and shrug a helpless -shoulder. - -He gave the command, and now there was no uncertainty. - -"Fire!" - - ---- - -The celebration was being held in the Great Stadium, the largest, most -costly structure that Man had ever built. It was a fitting structure for -the more important football games; and used on occasion, if they could -be fitted in without upsetting the schedule, for State affairs. Now the -stadium was filled to capacity, its floor churned by the careless feet -of the thousands upon thousands who had managed to obtain an entrance. - -From the quarter-mile-high tiers of seats, from the floor of the -stadium, the shouts welled up, washing over the platform at the North -end. - -"Griswold! Griswold!" - -It was not yet time for history to assess the justice of the massacre. - -The President raised his hand. The battery of video cameras picked up -each move. - -"Our hopes, our fears, our hearts, our prayers rode through every -space-dark, star-flecked mile with these glorious pioneers." He turned -then to the captain. "For the people of Earth, _Admiral_ Griswold, this -medal. A new medal for a Guider of Destiny, Maker of Empire, Son of -Man!" - -The voice faltered, stopped. - -The crowd on the floor of the stadium was pressing outward from the -center, screaming in pain and terror. At the moment when the people -should be quiet, rapt in reverence, they were emptying the floor of the -stadium. But not willingly. They were being pressed back and out, as a -great weight pushes its way through water. Those who could move outward -no farther were crushed where they stood. - -And then the ship appeared. - -Hazy of outline, shimmering with impossible angles, seen by its glinting -fire of light rather than by its solid form, as if its reality were in -some other dimension and this only a projection, the ship appeared. - -The President's hand reached out and gripped Griswold's shoulder as he -leaned back and back, trying to determine its vast height. A silence -then clutched the crowd--a terrified silence. - -A full minute passed. Even on the platform, where all the pioneers of -Mars were assembled with Earth's dignitaries, even there the people -cowered back away from this unseeable, unknowable horror. - -But one man leaned forward instead, frantically studying the shimmering -outline of the ship. One man--Berkeley. - -With the training of the ethnologist, a man who really can deduce an -entire civilization from mystifying data, he recognized the tremendous -import. - -At the end of that minute, without warning, a group of figures hovered -in the air near the floor of the stadium. - - ---- - -Quickly, Berkeley's eyes assessed their form, their color, the -increasing solidity of the humanoids. There are some movements, some -gestures, common to all things of intelligence--the pause, the -resolution, the lift of pride. - -"No!" he screamed and started forward. "Oh, no! We're civilized. We're -intelligent!" He was pulled back, as in his terror he tried to leap from -the platform to get at the humanoids. - -Held there, unable to move, he read the meaning of the actions of the -group hovering near the ship. One flashed a shining tentacle around, as -if to point to the stadium, the pitifully small spaceship on display, -the crowds of people. - -The leader manifestly ignored him. He flowed forward a pace, his ovoid -head held high in pride and arrogance. He pointed a tentacle toward the -south end of the stadium, and a pillar of leaping flame arose; fed with -no fuel, never to cease its fire, the symbol of possession. - -He pointed his tentacles to the north, the south, the east, the west. He -motioned with his tentacles, as if to encircle all of Earth. - -He unfurled a scroll and began to read. - ---MARK CLIFTON & ALEX APOSTOLIDES - - _Transcribers note_: This etext was produced from Galaxy Science - Fiction August 1953. 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