Rock rarely left his family, and Richard had
placed him second in command of Starlight Enterprise.
Rock continued. "We already concluded that the ability to sheath
spacecraft and even asteroids comes from an alien intelligence more
advanced than our own race. I think it highly likely that the source-at
least the immediate source-of that knowledge is the asteroid Zimbardo
has taken over. We don't know what other capabilities this asteroid
base has. But we do know that Lurton Zimbardo is bringing it to
Earth-very, very close to Earth, and that he will be here in fifteen
days."
Richard swallowed hard and looked away. "Oh my, Rock!-I'm sure you're
right. In fact, what other possibilities are there?"
"But unless he has defenses or weaponry we haven't seen yet, we have an
advantage. A slight advantage."
"What's that?"
"He doesn't know that we know where he is or that we have guessed what
he's really doing."
Robert Nolan and Beowulf Denn made the twenty-six minute journey from
the Moon to the space station. Robert had been full of chatter on the
way back, but Wulf had responded only with short sentences, and after
they had docked they went their separate ways. Robert went to his
office to call the President. Richard had urged Robert to be the one to
inform him that the probes had deployed successfully, that the
microwave net had found the asteroid, and that Earth was not in danger
of collision.
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