Steve Cliff will give us his
report."
By videotape, Steve Cliff reported what he had seen in the area of Z25.
He concluded, "So it is obvious that the pirates have a very effective
radar bender. Their ships are, in effect, invisible to our standard
radar detection systems."
When Steve's report was over, Richard added, "Steve Cliff was immensely
helpful when we sent the two Starmen to Mars. He did us another favor
by following them as far as Z25 when he preferred to return to Earth.
He is on his way back to Earth now. Oritz asked him to keep an eye on
the Starmen for their own safety, and as you can tell from his report
it was a very good thing indeed that he did!"
The men at the table looked grim. The fathers of the Starmen wore
especially troubled expressions.
"Our battle with the pirates is not yet over, I'm afraid," continued
Richard Starlight. "Their radar bender is nearly perfect. The notion of
developing a technique that makes an object invisible to radar is not
new, of course, but in spite of several decades of effort even
Starlight Enterprise has not been able to achieve the high level of
effectiveness Zimbardo's men have available to them. From these
observations we draw two disquieting conclusions.
"First, we learned from the pirates we captured on Mars that their base
is probably invisible to radar; it can't be seen with normal methods.
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