It's likely that the pirates have outfitted all their ships with the
device that makes objects invisible to radar, not just the five Steve
Cliff observed. If so, their ships can be anywhere without the
possibility of any of our bases or centers of civilization being aware
of them until they become visible to the eye. Since all our computers
track ships and contribute toward strategic battle decisions based on
radar data, it is almost impossible to guard against such pirate raids
as Zimbardo's men are now able to carry out-and have already done on
Z25." Richard sighed.
"Second, and most alarming of all, it is almost impossible for the
pirates to have invented the radar bender on their own. We had surmised
this shortly after our first conversations with the captive pirates on
Mars, but since then our computer has estimated the chance that they
did so to be approximately 0.0001%. That kind of technology is beyond
any earthly scientific capability. It is much more likely that they got
it from some alien civilization-a highly advanced alien civilization.
"We don't have any solid information other than that, so we can only
guess what level of connection there may be between any such
hypothetical civilization and the pirates. At any rate, where the radar
bender came from, other devices might come too-military devices against
which Earth has no defense.
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