On Ceres, Sim Sala Bim received the encrypted message on tight beam,
and felt immense sadness come over him as he read it. "Where are those
three young Starmen now?" he wondered.
In the laboratories of Starlight Enterprise's main center on the Moon,
scientists were working around the clock to devise a method by which
their ships could track distant objects by sight instead of radar.
Additionally, under a very rare Presidential command, technicians were
working frantically under Earth's pre-eminent astrophysicist, Stephen
Hoshino, trying to devise an advanced means of detecting a ship that
was invisible to radar.
The Inner Planetary system was waiting for a strike which its defenders
knew would surely come-but not when, where, or how.
8: The Starmen Strike!
ALMOST an hour had gone by since George St. George had begun to tell
the three Starmen what he knew of the asteroid. Zip, Mark, and Joe had
listened intently, plying the asteroid miner with detailed questions as
he continued his narrative. At last, no one had anything else to say.
"No more questions?" Zip asked. Both Joe and Mark shook their heads.
Their energy level had gone up appreciably since they had sat down with
George. They had become spirited, now that they were determined to find
a plan of escape.
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