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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: Firegod - -Author: William Scarff - -Release Date: July 15, 2022 [eBook #68529] - -Language: English - -Produced by: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FIREGOD *** - - - - - - FIREGOD - - BY WILLIAM SCARFF - - Some are born to greatness, others achieve - the rulership of systems--but Merssu - wanted to be a god. All he needed - was a million years and a little luck! - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Rocket Stories, July 1953. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -"Your Majesty!" - -D'hai Merssu, Emperor of All the Suns, Protector of the Galaxy, looked -up calmly as his prime minister burst into the room. His lean, brooding -face did not change expression as he watched the pale and perspiring -man cross the flagstoned floor with a sharp, nervous patter of leather. - -"Gently, Tors, gently," he said quietly, his eyes mocking under their -overhang of dark eyebrow. "You're Prime Minister now--remember that. -A prime minister doesn't come blundering into the palace looking as -though the sky was falling. It creates unrest in the population. Try to -remember that we're no longer a pair of obscure rabblerousers, trying -to overthrow the Crown. We _are_ the Crown now. Try to act like it." - -"D'hai, the sky _is_ falling!" Tors burst out unheedingly, "I have word -that the Earthmen are driving beyond the Rim and into the heart of the -Empire itself! Their ships are irresistible. They're winning battle -after battle! And the people are restless! They say it's time the False -Emperor's rule was overthrown. Some of the garrisons are rebelling!" - -Still the Emperor's expression did not change. "So," he said calmly, -"the Earthmen were not bluffing when they said they'd maintain the -rights of the old Emperor." - -"Yes! You said they wouldn't, D'hai. What are we going to do?" - -"I was wrong, Tors," Merssu said evenly. "No matter. As for what -we are going to do, why, I suppose you'd better arrange for another -broadcast. Tell the people we have weapons ready if the situation -becomes serious, that they have nothing to fear." - -"But the situation _is_ serious! And what weapons?" - -"No weapons, Tors," Merssu explained patiently. "But the story will -serve to keep the people calm--and, perhaps, make them think twice -about revolt. Now go. Hurry!" - -The prime minister's feet pattered over the floor again. The door to -the room closed. - -Merssu smiled quietly. He rose, and opened the concealed door behind -his chair. Closing it behind him, he slipped into a passage of which -no one knew, and ten minutes later he was in a private tubeway that -led half-way across the continent into the heart of an old and barren -mountain range. - -As he sat comfortably in the padded upholstery of the tube car, Merssu -smiled again. Poor Tors! So excitable. Always the hysteric--a perfect -rabblerouser, perhaps, but not a clever man. No, never a clever man. A -clever man knew when the game was over. And Merssu laughed. - -The game had been worth it. Five years ago, he had been a -revolutionary, slinking through the alleys at night, always in -danger--and always clever. Four years of that, and then--Empire. -Absolute rule over the entire Greater Magellanic Cloud. Now he was once -again in danger. But it was a danger he had long ago foreseen, and -planned for. And the past year had been worth it. He laughed again. -Poor, addle-witted Tors! Left with the empty bag in his hands. - - * * * * * - -The spaceship rested like a crouching bullet in its chamber. As he slid -the tubeway door shut behind him, Merssu admired the savage sleekness -of its lines once again. Even more, he admired his cleverness in having -it built. A clever man always has a back door. He crossed the hangar -floor unhurriedly, and climbed into the ship. - -The control room was small, but efficient. A hundred controls lay -closely around the padded chair, some of them for the standard drive, -others for the hyperspatial warp. - -The hyperspatial warp! Merssu smiled. There was his escape--and more. -Here were the means for his future rulership over nothing so small as -the Cloud--here were entire galaxies waiting for his hand. - -Hyperspace! There was something to make a man think! Another universe, -not beyond, but _alongside_ his own, hidden in the complex byways -of Reimannian geometry and the mathematics of Einstein. A universe -where time itself ran slower, where a year of normal time encompassed -centuries. A ship could twist itself into that universe and travel just -below the speed of light, the limit which, in normal space, was the -barrier no ship could cross. But, in hyperspace, while the same barrier -existed, a man from normal space could travel for centuries, covering -great distances, while, for him, only a few months passed. - -Merssu chuckled. Behind him, stored in the great holds of the ship, -were working models of every machine and weapon the Cloud civilization -possessed. There were plans, manuals, instructions, all translated into -basic symbology that any intelligent being could understand. Packed -into this ship was an entire civilization, ready to be brought to -whatever people Merssu chose. He had only to enter hyperspace and lose -himself where no Earthman or rebel could follow, and there he would -find a primitive race, barely beginning to rise out of the mud. He -would bring them civilization. In return, he would have--Godhood! - -They would worship him, those primitive people. He would be Merssu -the Firegod, thundering out of the sky, bringing with him the gift of -civilization. And once the gift was given, he would climb back into the -sky on a pillar of fire, promising to return when his people were ready. - -He laughed aloud, the deep bass sound echoing through the control -chamber. Why not? He could fly back into space and spend a year, -waiting, while centuries passed on the primitive world. When he -returned, that world would be his, and soon afterward the entire -universe would bow before the name of Merssu, the immortal Firegod, for -there is no force so strong, no loyalty so great, as that of men for -their gods. - -Still laughing, he blasted the ship out of its hangar into the darkness -of space, and a little later, into hyperspace, while the big blue ships -of Earth smashed his discarded Empire behind him. - - * * * * * - -In a month, he had found his planet, and his people. They were almost -human in appearance, but shorter. So much the better. He was like them, -but just different enough to be a god. - -He brought his ship roaring down through the atmosphere, trailing a -streamer of flame. As he passed over the sea that covered most of the -world, the wash of his jets kicked the water into froth, and the sound -of his passage echoed through the sky. - -The village rested on the shore of the sea. The mud huts trembled as -his ship sank down, resting on its jetstream until it settled slowly to -the ground. - -Smiling faintly, Merssu put on his spacesuit, strapping his antigravity -harness on over it. He flew out of his upper airlock, carrying a gun in -his hand. - -He hovered in the air above the village. He pointed the gun into the -air and fired. A cone of flame shot toward the sky. He pointed the -gun at the sea, and towering curtains of steam rose to hang over the -village. - -Merssu descended, and found his people groveling in the mud. - -Weeks passed. A stream of men carried the ship's cargo into a great -sprawling building that Merssu carved out of a stone cliff with a -subatomic cutter. The lintels of the building were sanctified with -the blood of virgins. A new class of people arose in the village--the -Priests of Merssu, the Firegod. - -And as the ship rose up into space again, on its journey back into the -normal space where Merssu would wait his year and the centuries would -pass for his people, the priests chanted over their altars. - -"He will return. Merssu goes to his kingdom in the sky, but he will -return, bearing flame in his hands. Merssu the Firegod--Merssu, the -immortal Bringer of Fire--will return." - -And the centuries passed. - -Merssu brought his ship out of the sky, tearing the air as he came, the -growl of his jets thundering over the mighty city on the sea. The sound -echoed back from the carved face of the Temple of Merssu, and beat -against the spreading buildings. - -The ship settled to earth. Merssu strapped on his antigrav unit, and -flashed out into the air above the city. He fired his gun into the sea, -and the steam-curtain rose once more. He pointed the gun skyward, and -the heavens danced with flame. - -A low, snarling car bearing the sign of Merssu's priesthood drove up to -him as he touched the ground. Two men got out and walked toward him, -one of them dressed in the somber black of the priesthood. Merssu stood -waiting, his eyes lighting with triumphant fire. - -"Who are you?" the priest asked. - -Merssu stared, the pose broken. "Who am I? Kneel, fool! I am Merssu, -the Firegod." - -The two men looked at him speechlessly for a moment, then burst into -laughter. - -"Merssu!" The priest wiped his eyes. The other man's laughter trailed -into anger. - -"Watch your tongue, blasphemer!" he said curtly, drawing a gun from his -holster. - -"Merssu!" the priest repeated, "You're the fool, stranger. At least -the others who've tried to claim his godhood had the sense to disguise -themselves to resemble his pictures." - -"Pictures change, rash priest!" Merssu thundered. "I am the Firegod! -Look on my power!" Once more he fired into the sea, and once more the -steam pillars rose. "I am the God of Fire. I fly in the hands of flame. -I walk on the air. I burn the land and the sea. I am Merssu!" - -The priest's face lost its tolerant amusement. His mouth twisted in -scorn. - -"Walk on the air, do you? In a Mark XI Antigrav belt, yes. Burn sea and -land, eh? With a sungun, certainly. Fly in hands of flame? If you wish -to be picturesque about it, yes--but so does every drunken fool of a -spaceman." - -"_I tell you, I am Merssu!_" Merssu screamed. "_Bow down and worship!_" - -"_Silence!_" The priest's voice was dangerous, "You will come with us -to the temple. There you'll see how we worship imposters!" - -"I'll kill you!" Merssu shouted, raising his gun. - -The priest motioned with his hand. The man with him blew Merssu's head -off. - -"Blasphemer!" the priest spat disdainfully, his voice filled with -disgust. He and his retainer turned back to the car, leaving the body -to be carted away later. - - * * * * * - -Every evening at sunset, the priests of Merssu stand over their altars -and intone the words. - -"He will return. Merssu the Firegod--Merssu, the immortal Bringer of -Fire--will return." - -And the people of Merssu's world intone in reply, "He will return." -Throughout the galaxies of hyperspace, wherever the men of Merssu's -world may wander, there are other priests, and other races that -respond, but the ritual is always the same. - -"He will return." - -And the city waits. 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All he needed<br /> -was a million years and a little luck!</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Rocket Stories, July 1953.<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>"Your Majesty!"</p> - -<p>D'hai Merssu, Emperor of All the Suns, Protector of the Galaxy, looked -up calmly as his prime minister burst into the room. His lean, brooding -face did not change expression as he watched the pale and perspiring -man cross the flagstoned floor with a sharp, nervous patter of leather.</p> - -<p>"Gently, Tors, gently," he said quietly, his eyes mocking under their -overhang of dark eyebrow. "You're Prime Minister now—remember that. -A prime minister doesn't come blundering into the palace looking as -though the sky was falling. It creates unrest in the population. Try to -remember that we're no longer a pair of obscure rabblerousers, trying -to overthrow the Crown. We <i>are</i> the Crown now. Try to act like it."</p> - -<p>"D'hai, the sky <i>is</i> falling!" Tors burst out unheedingly, "I have word -that the Earthmen are driving beyond the Rim and into the heart of the -Empire itself! Their ships are irresistible. They're winning battle -after battle! And the people are restless! They say it's time the False -Emperor's rule was overthrown. Some of the garrisons are rebelling!"</p> - -<p>Still the Emperor's expression did not change. "So," he said calmly, -"the Earthmen were not bluffing when they said they'd maintain the -rights of the old Emperor."</p> - -<p>"Yes! You said they wouldn't, D'hai. What are we going to do?"</p> - -<p>"I was wrong, Tors," Merssu said evenly. "No matter. As for what -we are going to do, why, I suppose you'd better arrange for another -broadcast. Tell the people we have weapons ready if the situation -becomes serious, that they have nothing to fear."</p> - -<p>"But the situation <i>is</i> serious! And what weapons?"</p> - -<p>"No weapons, Tors," Merssu explained patiently. "But the story will -serve to keep the people calm—and, perhaps, make them think twice -about revolt. Now go. Hurry!"</p> - -<p>The prime minister's feet pattered over the floor again. The door to -the room closed.</p> - -<p>Merssu smiled quietly. He rose, and opened the concealed door behind -his chair. Closing it behind him, he slipped into a passage of which -no one knew, and ten minutes later he was in a private tubeway that -led half-way across the continent into the heart of an old and barren -mountain range.</p> - -<p>As he sat comfortably in the padded upholstery of the tube car, Merssu -smiled again. Poor Tors! So excitable. Always the hysteric—a perfect -rabblerouser, perhaps, but not a clever man. No, never a clever man. A -clever man knew when the game was over. And Merssu laughed.</p> - -<p>The game had been worth it. Five years ago, he had been a -revolutionary, slinking through the alleys at night, always in -danger—and always clever. Four years of that, and then—Empire. -Absolute rule over the entire Greater Magellanic Cloud. Now he was once -again in danger. But it was a danger he had long ago foreseen, and -planned for. And the past year had been worth it. He laughed again. -Poor, addle-witted Tors! Left with the empty bag in his hands.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The spaceship rested like a crouching bullet in its chamber. As he slid -the tubeway door shut behind him, Merssu admired the savage sleekness -of its lines once again. Even more, he admired his cleverness in having -it built. A clever man always has a back door. He crossed the hangar -floor unhurriedly, and climbed into the ship.</p> - -<p>The control room was small, but efficient. A hundred controls lay -closely around the padded chair, some of them for the standard drive, -others for the hyperspatial warp.</p> - -<p>The hyperspatial warp! Merssu smiled. There was his escape—and more. -Here were the means for his future rulership over nothing so small as -the Cloud—here were entire galaxies waiting for his hand.</p> - -<p>Hyperspace! There was something to make a man think! Another universe, -not beyond, but <i>alongside</i> his own, hidden in the complex byways -of Reimannian geometry and the mathematics of Einstein. A universe -where time itself ran slower, where a year of normal time encompassed -centuries. A ship could twist itself into that universe and travel just -below the speed of light, the limit which, in normal space, was the -barrier no ship could cross. But, in hyperspace, while the same barrier -existed, a man from normal space could travel for centuries, covering -great distances, while, for him, only a few months passed.</p> - -<p>Merssu chuckled. Behind him, stored in the great holds of the ship, -were working models of every machine and weapon the Cloud civilization -possessed. There were plans, manuals, instructions, all translated into -basic symbology that any intelligent being could understand. Packed -into this ship was an entire civilization, ready to be brought to -whatever people Merssu chose. He had only to enter hyperspace and lose -himself where no Earthman or rebel could follow, and there he would -find a primitive race, barely beginning to rise out of the mud. He -would bring them civilization. In return, he would have—Godhood!</p> - -<p>They would worship him, those primitive people. He would be Merssu -the Firegod, thundering out of the sky, bringing with him the gift of -civilization. And once the gift was given, he would climb back into the -sky on a pillar of fire, promising to return when his people were ready.</p> - -<p>He laughed aloud, the deep bass sound echoing through the control -chamber. Why not? He could fly back into space and spend a year, -waiting, while centuries passed on the primitive world. When he -returned, that world would be his, and soon afterward the entire -universe would bow before the name of Merssu, the immortal Firegod, for -there is no force so strong, no loyalty so great, as that of men for -their gods.</p> - -<p>Still laughing, he blasted the ship out of its hangar into the darkness -of space, and a little later, into hyperspace, while the big blue ships -of Earth smashed his discarded Empire behind him.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>In a month, he had found his planet, and his people. They were almost -human in appearance, but shorter. So much the better. He was like them, -but just different enough to be a god.</p> - -<p>He brought his ship roaring down through the atmosphere, trailing a -streamer of flame. As he passed over the sea that covered most of the -world, the wash of his jets kicked the water into froth, and the sound -of his passage echoed through the sky.</p> - -<p>The village rested on the shore of the sea. The mud huts trembled as -his ship sank down, resting on its jetstream until it settled slowly to -the ground.</p> - -<p>Smiling faintly, Merssu put on his spacesuit, strapping his antigravity -harness on over it. He flew out of his upper airlock, carrying a gun in -his hand.</p> - -<p>He hovered in the air above the village. He pointed the gun into the -air and fired. A cone of flame shot toward the sky. He pointed the -gun at the sea, and towering curtains of steam rose to hang over the -village.</p> - -<p>Merssu descended, and found his people groveling in the mud.</p> - -<p>Weeks passed. A stream of men carried the ship's cargo into a great -sprawling building that Merssu carved out of a stone cliff with a -subatomic cutter. The lintels of the building were sanctified with -the blood of virgins. A new class of people arose in the village—the -Priests of Merssu, the Firegod.</p> - -<p>And as the ship rose up into space again, on its journey back into the -normal space where Merssu would wait his year and the centuries would -pass for his people, the priests chanted over their altars.</p> - -<p>"He will return. Merssu goes to his kingdom in the sky, but he will -return, bearing flame in his hands. Merssu the Firegod—Merssu, the -immortal Bringer of Fire—will return."</p> - -<p>And the centuries passed.</p> - -<p>Merssu brought his ship out of the sky, tearing the air as he came, the -growl of his jets thundering over the mighty city on the sea. The sound -echoed back from the carved face of the Temple of Merssu, and beat -against the spreading buildings.</p> - -<p>The ship settled to earth. Merssu strapped on his antigrav unit, and -flashed out into the air above the city. He fired his gun into the sea, -and the steam-curtain rose once more. He pointed the gun skyward, and -the heavens danced with flame.</p> - -<p>A low, snarling car bearing the sign of Merssu's priesthood drove up to -him as he touched the ground. Two men got out and walked toward him, -one of them dressed in the somber black of the priesthood. Merssu stood -waiting, his eyes lighting with triumphant fire.</p> - -<p>"Who are you?" the priest asked.</p> - -<p>Merssu stared, the pose broken. "Who am I? Kneel, fool! I am Merssu, -the Firegod."</p> - -<p>The two men looked at him speechlessly for a moment, then burst into -laughter.</p> - -<p>"Merssu!" The priest wiped his eyes. The other man's laughter trailed -into anger.</p> - -<p>"Watch your tongue, blasphemer!" he said curtly, drawing a gun from his -holster.</p> - -<p>"Merssu!" the priest repeated, "You're the fool, stranger. At least -the others who've tried to claim his godhood had the sense to disguise -themselves to resemble his pictures."</p> - -<p>"Pictures change, rash priest!" Merssu thundered. "I am the Firegod! -Look on my power!" Once more he fired into the sea, and once more the -steam pillars rose. "I am the God of Fire. I fly in the hands of flame. -I walk on the air. I burn the land and the sea. I am Merssu!"</p> - -<p>The priest's face lost its tolerant amusement. His mouth twisted in -scorn.</p> - -<p>"Walk on the air, do you? In a Mark XI Antigrav belt, yes. Burn sea and -land, eh? With a sungun, certainly. Fly in hands of flame? If you wish -to be picturesque about it, yes—but so does every drunken fool of a -spaceman."</p> - -<p>"<i>I tell you, I am Merssu!</i>" Merssu screamed. "<i>Bow down and worship!</i>"</p> - -<p>"<i>Silence!</i>" The priest's voice was dangerous, "You will come with us -to the temple. There you'll see how we worship imposters!"</p> - -<p>"I'll kill you!" Merssu shouted, raising his gun.</p> - -<p>The priest motioned with his hand. The man with him blew Merssu's head -off.</p> - -<p>"Blasphemer!" the priest spat disdainfully, his voice filled with -disgust. He and his retainer turned back to the car, leaving the body -to be carted away later.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Every evening at sunset, the priests of Merssu stand over their altars -and intone the words.</p> - -<p>"He will return. Merssu the Firegod—Merssu, the immortal Bringer of -Fire—will return."</p> - -<p>And the people of Merssu's world intone in reply, "He will return." -Throughout the galaxies of hyperspace, wherever the men of Merssu's -world may wander, there are other priests, and other races that -respond, but the ritual is always the same.</p> - -<p>"He will return."</p> - -<p>And the city waits. 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