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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: Final Glory - -Author: Henry Hasse - -Release Date: December 30, 2020 [eBook #64142] - -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 FINAL GLORY *** - - - - - FINAL GLORY - - By HENRY HASSE - - The Sun was dying--and with it the System. - Earth was a cold stone. Survivors huddled - on a cheerless Mercury, waiting numbly. - But Praav in his inscrutable wisdom-- - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Planet Stories Spring 1947. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -N'Zik was a forlorn and weary figure at the forward port. He balanced -his frail, bulbous body on four of his eight limbs, while the other -four moved listlessly over the etheroscope, adjusting sights and -lenses. N'Zik wondered dully why he bothered. Even from here he could -see that the system looking ahead, the dull reddish Sun with its wild -and darksome planets, was not for them. - -Bitterness flooded his soul. To have come so far and searched so -long, only to find this! In all this Galaxy here was the one Sun that -sustained a planetary system, and that Sun was dying! The irony was -more than he could bear. - -Shi-Zik came to stand beside him. Only she and N'Zik were left, of all -the thousands; two alone on this driving colossus which was the only -world they had ever known. She sensed his bitterness now and tried to -speak words of hope. - -"See, N'Zik, there are inner planets! How close their orbits are! There -may still be warmth and life-sustaining rays." - -N'Zik's limbs sprawled outward in despair. - -"This dying system is not for us, Shi-Zik. The five largest and -outermost planets are but barren, frigid rock. But if you wish, we -shall go inward." - -His limbs flashed over the huge control-console. Gradually the ship -slowed in its headlong pace. Nearly the size of a small planet, was -this ship; entire generations had been born and died aboard it, during -the trip between Galaxies. Somewhere deep inside, perpetual generators -pounded out the power that had driven them through space faster than -light. - -N'Zik and Shi-Zik had never seen those generators, nor were they -conscious now of the smooth threnody. They had known it always. Miles -of inter-locking corridors extended behind them too, a veritable city -with vast rooms of wonderful machinery--but none of this had they ever -seen. For DEATH had struck suddenly there, was lurking there still. - -The huge metal tomes told of it. N'Zik and Shi-Zik had read that -history so often that they knew it now by heart. They knew how and why -the last generations had been wiped out. - - * * * * * - -The first scientists had planned well for the safety and well-being -of the generations to come, but they had overlooked one thing. Within -their own Galaxy they had been cognizant of certain cosmic rays, which -were harmless insofar as they had no apparent effect on living tissues. -However, in that utter vacuity between Galaxies _no such rays existed_! -And there between Galaxies new generations were born. Five, ten, a -dozen generations. And at last--they had reached the new Galaxy.... - -Whether the cosmic rays here differed, or whether the new generations -had simply lost all resistance to them, was never fully known. The -race had died by thousands as the hard rays penetrated the ship. The -scientists worked feverishly to build up a section with layers of -their heaviest metals; but by the time they had achieved a sufficient -thickness, a few dozen had survived. - -N'Zik and Shi-Zik were the last of that final group. - -Now, under N'Zik's sure guidance, the ship crossed the orbits of the -outer planets. He had thrown over the deceleration control, but their -speed was still tremendous. - -In a few minutes craggy fragments of rock were skimming past their -hull. The larger ones were deflected by automatic repulsion plates and -the few that drifted through became molten upon contact. Such was their -speed. - -Then they were through the swarm, and N'Zik remarked, "This is an old -system indeed. At one time a planet must have occupied that orbit." - -"Look." Shi-Zik's spider-like body was taut with eagerness as she -pointed to a planet far ahead, swinging away from their trajectory. -"Shall we follow it?" - -"There is no purpose. We can pick it up in the etheroscope." N'Zik -adjusted the sights. The planet together with its two moons leaped into -view on the screen. N'Zik manipulated the magnilens and it was brought -still nearer. - -Vast icy caps encompassed most of this world. The rest was frozen -desert, slightly reddish, with a few peculiar straight-line markings -that might have been man-made. But that didn't interest them now. -It was all too apparent that this planet had been uninhabitable for -millennia. - -"Dead. A frozen, dead world," Shi-Zik intoned. "Let us go on to the -next one." - -They moved ever inward. The next planet with its single satellite -offered no more promise. Here they saw stark mountain ranges in -contrast to vast hollows that might have been dead ocean bottoms. The -magnilens picked out several cities, tottering, crumbling in ruin. - -"Cities," N'Zik muttered. "Cities still standing on this airless world. -A civilization once existed here, and it cannot have been so long ago. -Shall we go on, Shi-Zik? There are two or three other planets but I -fear they will offer no more than this." - -Now something of N'Zik's despair came upon Shi-Zik. "No, we need not -go on. I feel weary of it all. I care not if we ever find the place we -seek." - -"I too, have had this feeling," N'Zik waved his limbs in agreement. -"Shi-Zik, we have searched this Galaxy through. There may yet be -life-giving Suns with planets, but we have not much time. Of late I -have felt the engines becoming sluggish of power...." - -"True. The way has been long." She gestured hopelessly. "Do you suggest -then, that we put an end to the mission?" - -"Not without your consent, Shi-Zik." - -"I have wanted to end it!" Shi-Zik cried. "For a very long time I have -thought of it, but dared not speak." - -"And yet," N'Zik mused, "perhaps we should search further. Search until -the end. It was the will of our forebears that the race be continued. -Should we end so ingloriously what they set out to achieve?" - -"The will of our forebears is as nothing to the will of Praav," Shi-Zik -spoke softly, gazing out to the stars. "Praav has watched safely over -us all this time. If He had wanted us to find a place, we should have -found it. And we need not end ingloriously. Observe, N'Zik, that we, -the last of our kind, have ended here, at what is probably the last -planetary system. Its sun is dying as our race is dying. Let us all go -out in a final flame together, a blaze of glory!" - -The bitterness had left N'Zik now. "You are right, my dear. It was -meant that we should end here. I believe Praav has willed it so!" - -He threw the controls over to full acceleration and locked them -into place. The colossus of all spaceships piled acceleration upon -acceleration with the speed of light, plunging on its unerring course -toward the dying Sun. The two beings from another Galaxy stood at the -forward port, proudly side by side. N'Zik looked at Shi-Zik and felt -such a peace as he had never known. - -And Shi-Zik murmured, "Praav, in his inscrutable wisdom...." - - * * * * * - -Curt Sanders climbed wearily up the last steep passage from the city -below. Space-suited and helmeted, he emerged from the low line of -cliffs and looked out upon the desolate surface of Mercury. - -For the past week he had worked hard in the underground laboratories. -Occasionally he came to the surface where he could see the dark sky, -and the pin-points of stars, and the dying Sun once more. That alone -gave him incentive to go on. He, with the several thousand others, -were working out the problem which might save them from extinction. It -was slow work, damnably slow and hard, and Curt knew in his heart they -would not be in time. - -He raised his face to the red orb whose heat scarcely touched -here. Again he marvelled that disaster had come so suddenly. Solar -radiation was not supposed to end like that! It should have gone on -for millennia. That's what the scientists had preached. But it had -ended--scarcely five hundred years ago. Curt had never known Earth, -only the city here far within Mercury, where there was meager warmth -and light. And now even the internal heat of Mercury was fast cooling. - -Curt turned at the sound of footsteps behind him. That would be Olana. -She, too, came here each week. - -She stopped beside him, raised her helmeted face to Sun and stars -with infinite longing. For a moment neither of them spoke. Then Olana -clicked on her helmet radio. - -"Each time, Curt ... each time I come here I imagine the Sun has grown -dimmer. Is it really only my imagination?" - -"Yes. It becomes dimmer, but not perceptibly. Solar radiation is -electronic, and the theory is that our Sun has merely exhausted an -outer sheath of electrons. Lord knows what internal condition caused -it! If it's a solid body, it may be due to certain peculiarities of -the strata. The sun spots of hundreds of years ago must have been the -beginning of the end." - -She nodded. "How is the work coming?" - -"The Traction Rays? Slowly, Olana--too slowly." Curt shook his head -in weariness. "We're in the process of testing, but they are still -not strong enough. It means months more of work, and we shall need -hundreds! You know, if we fail on the first attempt we shall not have -another chance." - -"I--I still don't quite understand it," Olana was puzzled. "I know it -has something to do with the orbit of Vulcan. But how can it save us?" - -"It may not. It's a forlorn chance. You know of course that Vulcan's a -very small planet, scarcely larger than Earth's moon. And it pursues -an orbit much closer to the Sun than Mercury. If we can drive it out of -its orbit with the Traction Rays, it may fall into the Sun!" - -"But suppose," Olana pointed out, "it only takes up a closer orbit?" - -"Exactly why we're taking no chances. We must be sure our rays are -strong enough to _propel_ it into the Sun." - -"And what then?" - -Curt shrugged. "After that it's anybody's guess. Professor Marston -believes that such a collision will set up a combustion sufficient to -release internal electronic action from the Sun's depths. And, once -that is started, the Sun will blaze again." - -"I see," Olana exclaimed. "Something like stirring up dying embers!" - -"Yes." There was no eagerness in Curt's voice. "No doubt there are -forces within the Sun sufficient to last for millennia, if they could -only be released. But they must be deep within. I'm afraid nothing we -do with Vulcan will be enough." - -"Why, you're just a pessimist!" - -Curt smiled wanly. "No, just realistic. And very tired! It's been a -trying week. Come, we'd better be getting back." - -"Wait." Olana stopped him. She was gazing at the blackness beyond the -horizon's rim. "Curt, look." - -"Meteor?" He followed her gaze. "No! I never saw a meteor like _that_!" - -They saw a patch of light against the reddish sunglow. It wasn't -extended light, it seemed to move as a bulk and with such speed as no -meteor had ever attained. For half a minute they watched it become -smaller--then it disappeared. Curt shook his head in puzzlement. - -[Illustration: _They saw a patch of light against the reddish sunglow._] - -"That beats me! For a minute I had a feeling--yes, I was _right_! It -went straight into the Sun! Olana--!" - -But she had seen, too. She was scarcely aware of Curt's fierce grip on -her arm. - - * * * * * - -Directly in the center of the maroon Sun a tiny pinpoint of white had -appeared. Even as they watched, it seemed to mushroom slowly outward. - -"That was no meteor!" Curt exclaimed. "Whatever caused that explosion -was travelling at the speed of light, and must have had tremendous -bulk! Why ... I doubt if even Vulcan striking with its orbital velocity -could cause such a display!" - -For an hour they watched. At the end of that time the whitish glow had -given no sign of receding; if anything, it had become ever so slightly -larger. 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Survivors huddled<br /> -on a cheerless Mercury, waiting numbly.<br /> -But Praav in his inscrutable wisdom—</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Planet Stories Spring 1947.<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>N'Zik was a forlorn and weary figure at the forward port. He balanced -his frail, bulbous body on four of his eight limbs, while the other -four moved listlessly over the etheroscope, adjusting sights and -lenses. N'Zik wondered dully why he bothered. Even from here he could -see that the system looking ahead, the dull reddish Sun with its wild -and darksome planets, was not for them.</p> - -<p>Bitterness flooded his soul. To have come so far and searched so -long, only to find this! In all this Galaxy here was the one Sun that -sustained a planetary system, and that Sun was dying! The irony was -more than he could bear.</p> - -<p>Shi-Zik came to stand beside him. Only she and N'Zik were left, of all -the thousands; two alone on this driving colossus which was the only -world they had ever known. She sensed his bitterness now and tried to -speak words of hope.</p> - -<p>"See, N'Zik, there are inner planets! How close their orbits are! There -may still be warmth and life-sustaining rays."</p> - -<p>N'Zik's limbs sprawled outward in despair.</p> - -<p>"This dying system is not for us, Shi-Zik. The five largest and -outermost planets are but barren, frigid rock. But if you wish, we -shall go inward."</p> - -<p>His limbs flashed over the huge control-console. Gradually the ship -slowed in its headlong pace. Nearly the size of a small planet, was -this ship; entire generations had been born and died aboard it, during -the trip between Galaxies. Somewhere deep inside, perpetual generators -pounded out the power that had driven them through space faster than -light.</p> - -<p>N'Zik and Shi-Zik had never seen those generators, nor were they -conscious now of the smooth threnody. They had known it always. Miles -of inter-locking corridors extended behind them too, a veritable city -with vast rooms of wonderful machinery—but none of this had they ever -seen. For DEATH had struck suddenly there, was lurking there still.</p> - -<p>The huge metal tomes told of it. N'Zik and Shi-Zik had read that -history so often that they knew it now by heart. They knew how and why -the last generations had been wiped out.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The first scientists had planned well for the safety and well-being -of the generations to come, but they had overlooked one thing. Within -their own Galaxy they had been cognizant of certain cosmic rays, which -were harmless insofar as they had no apparent effect on living tissues. -However, in that utter vacuity between Galaxies <i>no such rays existed</i>! -And there between Galaxies new generations were born. Five, ten, a -dozen generations. And at last—they had reached the new Galaxy....</p> - -<p>Whether the cosmic rays here differed, or whether the new generations -had simply lost all resistance to them, was never fully known. The -race had died by thousands as the hard rays penetrated the ship. The -scientists worked feverishly to build up a section with layers of -their heaviest metals; but by the time they had achieved a sufficient -thickness, a few dozen had survived.</p> - -<p>N'Zik and Shi-Zik were the last of that final group.</p> - -<p>Now, under N'Zik's sure guidance, the ship crossed the orbits of the -outer planets. He had thrown over the deceleration control, but their -speed was still tremendous.</p> - -<p>In a few minutes craggy fragments of rock were skimming past their -hull. The larger ones were deflected by automatic repulsion plates and -the few that drifted through became molten upon contact. Such was their -speed.</p> - -<p>Then they were through the swarm, and N'Zik remarked, "This is an old -system indeed. At one time a planet must have occupied that orbit."</p> - -<p>"Look." Shi-Zik's spider-like body was taut with eagerness as she -pointed to a planet far ahead, swinging away from their trajectory. -"Shall we follow it?"</p> - -<p>"There is no purpose. We can pick it up in the etheroscope." N'Zik -adjusted the sights. The planet together with its two moons leaped into -view on the screen. N'Zik manipulated the magnilens and it was brought -still nearer.</p> - -<p>Vast icy caps encompassed most of this world. The rest was frozen -desert, slightly reddish, with a few peculiar straight-line markings -that might have been man-made. But that didn't interest them now. -It was all too apparent that this planet had been uninhabitable for -millennia.</p> - -<p>"Dead. A frozen, dead world," Shi-Zik intoned. "Let us go on to the -next one."</p> - -<p>They moved ever inward. The next planet with its single satellite -offered no more promise. Here they saw stark mountain ranges in -contrast to vast hollows that might have been dead ocean bottoms. The -magnilens picked out several cities, tottering, crumbling in ruin.</p> - -<p>"Cities," N'Zik muttered. "Cities still standing on this airless world. -A civilization once existed here, and it cannot have been so long ago. -Shall we go on, Shi-Zik? There are two or three other planets but I -fear they will offer no more than this."</p> - -<p>Now something of N'Zik's despair came upon Shi-Zik. "No, we need not -go on. I feel weary of it all. I care not if we ever find the place we -seek."</p> - -<p>"I too, have had this feeling," N'Zik waved his limbs in agreement. -"Shi-Zik, we have searched this Galaxy through. There may yet be -life-giving Suns with planets, but we have not much time. Of late I -have felt the engines becoming sluggish of power...."</p> - -<p>"True. The way has been long." She gestured hopelessly. "Do you suggest -then, that we put an end to the mission?"</p> - -<p>"Not without your consent, Shi-Zik."</p> - -<p>"I have wanted to end it!" Shi-Zik cried. "For a very long time I have -thought of it, but dared not speak."</p> - -<p>"And yet," N'Zik mused, "perhaps we should search further. Search until -the end. It was the will of our forebears that the race be continued. -Should we end so ingloriously what they set out to achieve?"</p> - -<p>"The will of our forebears is as nothing to the will of Praav," Shi-Zik -spoke softly, gazing out to the stars. "Praav has watched safely over -us all this time. If He had wanted us to find a place, we should have -found it. And we need not end ingloriously. Observe, N'Zik, that we, -the last of our kind, have ended here, at what is probably the last -planetary system. Its sun is dying as our race is dying. Let us all go -out in a final flame together, a blaze of glory!"</p> - -<p>The bitterness had left N'Zik now. "You are right, my dear. It was -meant that we should end here. I believe Praav has willed it so!"</p> - -<p>He threw the controls over to full acceleration and locked them -into place. The colossus of all spaceships piled acceleration upon -acceleration with the speed of light, plunging on its unerring course -toward the dying Sun. The two beings from another Galaxy stood at the -forward port, proudly side by side. N'Zik looked at Shi-Zik and felt -such a peace as he had never known.</p> - -<p>And Shi-Zik murmured, "Praav, in his inscrutable wisdom...."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Curt Sanders climbed wearily up the last steep passage from the city -below. Space-suited and helmeted, he emerged from the low line of -cliffs and looked out upon the desolate surface of Mercury.</p> - -<p>For the past week he had worked hard in the underground laboratories. -Occasionally he came to the surface where he could see the dark sky, -and the pin-points of stars, and the dying Sun once more. That alone -gave him incentive to go on. He, with the several thousand others, -were working out the problem which might save them from extinction. It -was slow work, damnably slow and hard, and Curt knew in his heart they -would not be in time.</p> - -<p>He raised his face to the red orb whose heat scarcely touched -here. Again he marvelled that disaster had come so suddenly. Solar -radiation was not supposed to end like that! It should have gone on -for millennia. That's what the scientists had preached. But it had -ended—scarcely five hundred years ago. Curt had never known Earth, -only the city here far within Mercury, where there was meager warmth -and light. And now even the internal heat of Mercury was fast cooling.</p> - -<p>Curt turned at the sound of footsteps behind him. That would be Olana. -She, too, came here each week.</p> - -<p>She stopped beside him, raised her helmeted face to Sun and stars -with infinite longing. For a moment neither of them spoke. Then Olana -clicked on her helmet radio.</p> - -<p>"Each time, Curt ... each time I come here I imagine the Sun has grown -dimmer. Is it really only my imagination?"</p> - -<p>"Yes. It becomes dimmer, but not perceptibly. Solar radiation is -electronic, and the theory is that our Sun has merely exhausted an -outer sheath of electrons. Lord knows what internal condition caused -it! If it's a solid body, it may be due to certain peculiarities of -the strata. The sun spots of hundreds of years ago must have been the -beginning of the end."</p> - -<p>She nodded. "How is the work coming?"</p> - -<p>"The Traction Rays? Slowly, Olana—too slowly." Curt shook his head -in weariness. "We're in the process of testing, but they are still -not strong enough. It means months more of work, and we shall need -hundreds! You know, if we fail on the first attempt we shall not have -another chance."</p> - -<p>"I—I still don't quite understand it," Olana was puzzled. "I know it -has something to do with the orbit of Vulcan. But how can it save us?"</p> - -<p>"It may not. It's a forlorn chance. You know of course that Vulcan's a -very small planet, scarcely larger than Earth's moon. And it pursues -an orbit much closer to the Sun than Mercury. If we can drive it out of -its orbit with the Traction Rays, it may fall into the Sun!"</p> - -<p>"But suppose," Olana pointed out, "it only takes up a closer orbit?"</p> - -<p>"Exactly why we're taking no chances. We must be sure our rays are -strong enough to <i>propel</i> it into the Sun."</p> - -<p>"And what then?"</p> - -<p>Curt shrugged. "After that it's anybody's guess. Professor Marston -believes that such a collision will set up a combustion sufficient to -release internal electronic action from the Sun's depths. And, once -that is started, the Sun will blaze again."</p> - -<p>"I see," Olana exclaimed. "Something like stirring up dying embers!"</p> - -<p>"Yes." There was no eagerness in Curt's voice. "No doubt there are -forces within the Sun sufficient to last for millennia, if they could -only be released. But they must be deep within. I'm afraid nothing we -do with Vulcan will be enough."</p> - -<p>"Why, you're just a pessimist!"</p> - -<p>Curt smiled wanly. "No, just realistic. And very tired! It's been a -trying week. Come, we'd better be getting back."</p> - -<p>"Wait." Olana stopped him. She was gazing at the blackness beyond the -horizon's rim. "Curt, look."</p> - -<p>"Meteor?" He followed her gaze. "No! I never saw a meteor like <i>that</i>!"</p> - -<p>They saw a patch of light against the reddish sunglow. It wasn't -extended light, it seemed to move as a bulk and with such speed as no -meteor had ever attained. For half a minute they watched it become -smaller—then it disappeared. Curt shook his head in puzzlement.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" alt=""/> - <div class="caption"> - <p><i>They saw a patch of light against the reddish sunglow.</i></p> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"That beats me! For a minute I had a feeling—yes, I was <i>right</i>! It -went straight into the Sun! Olana—!"</p> - -<p>But she had seen, too. She was scarcely aware of Curt's fierce grip on -her arm.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Directly in the center of the maroon Sun a tiny pinpoint of white had -appeared. Even as they watched, it seemed to mushroom slowly outward.</p> - -<p>"That was no meteor!" Curt exclaimed. "Whatever caused that explosion -was travelling at the speed of light, and must have had tremendous -bulk! Why ... I doubt if even Vulcan striking with its orbital velocity -could cause such a display!"</p> - -<p>For an hour they watched. At the end of that time the whitish glow had -given no sign of receding; if anything, it had become ever so slightly -larger. 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