Speaker 1: Earth Search, a ten part adventure serial in Time and
Speaker 1: Space by James Follett.
Speaker 2: Part five The Pools of Time.
Speaker 3: What do you think, Shannah, if we moved into a
Speaker 3: lower orbit.
Speaker 4: I've wasted enough time jogging into this orbit.
Speaker 3: Increase the resolution, please.
Speaker 5: Ent or two Scoop is already on maximum.
Speaker 3: Look, it's definitely a domed city.
Speaker 6: And what was a domed city.
Speaker 3: There's been considerable meteoroid damage over the years, no attempt
Speaker 3: to repairs.
Speaker 6: Anyone lives there. They've gone underground. Now there's cyc more
Speaker 6: damage of their whole darbin.
Speaker 7: Estra Commander, you have lived on the Challenger all your life.
Speaker 7: You should know that we are unarmed.
Speaker 4: I also know that our two control systems have a
Speaker 4: total lack of imagination. Angel one and two, So I
Speaker 4: won't tax you too much. Work on existing data, and
Speaker 4: tell me if the inhabitants of that moon are alien
Speaker 4: or human?
Speaker 7: Human command human probability factor nine by so high.
Speaker 5: Angel one, you.
Speaker 7: Said that the sentinel on the moon mentioned the establishment
Speaker 7: of an empire some half million years before the planet
Speaker 7: Earth left the Solar System.
Speaker 5: The Solaric Empire.
Speaker 7: Yes, Zelder five a moon of the outer planet Zelder
Speaker 7: Gravity one geothermal energy source is good. It was occupied
Speaker 7: by a mining concern when the Challenger was being built
Speaker 7: in Earth orbit, so by the time the Solaric Empire
Speaker 7: was established, it would have become a thriving colony. Perhaps
Speaker 7: they were not all evacuated when the Earth left the
Speaker 7: Solar System. Perhaps they did not wish to be evacuated.
Speaker 4: And the people on Zelda five, now, if they are people,
Speaker 4: are descendants of the original colonists.
Speaker 7: It is the one projection that avoids the maximum number
Speaker 7: of improbables.
Speaker 3: So if they're human, they'll have human values and they'll
Speaker 3: know that kidnapping Darve and Astra is wrong.
Speaker 5: A false projection.
Speaker 1: It assumes that human values are stable over a time.
Speaker 2: I'm not interested in a lot of argument.
Speaker 4: The chances are that Darve and Astra are prisoners on
Speaker 4: that moon, and it's up to us to rescue them.
Speaker 7: Apart from your BD side arms, the Challenger is unarmed,
Speaker 7: Commander Telson, and so is the Shuttle.
Speaker 8: If they resent our presence and decide to attack, we
Speaker 8: will be unable to defend ourselves, nor we will be
Speaker 8: able to rescue dar and Astra.
Speaker 2: Damn it, Helen, look at it.
Speaker 9: Look at the battle predictor displays the ship is ten
Speaker 9: miles long.
Speaker 10: Speakle told us, what are you doing.
Speaker 2: Shutting the gas off? I want those two to live.
Speaker 10: We decided that they were aliens and that they had
Speaker 10: to die.
Speaker 9: Thorton, You decided that they were aliens, and you decided
Speaker 9: that they had to die.
Speaker 2: While I'm under siding if it's not too.
Speaker 9: Late, heartbeat, blood pressure, everything normal, Thord.
Speaker 10: And listen to me.
Speaker 6: Intercept to control the command center.
Speaker 2: Do you like a launch readiness?
Speaker 10: Don't launch yet, Spiegel. There may be a change of plans.
Speaker 6: But the ship's maneuvering into a lower orbit.
Speaker 10: Remain on stand by, Spiegel until you receive further orders.
Speaker 2: That's it in here, both of you. I've never known
Speaker 2: anyone who could sleep like you two?
Speaker 9: Have we?
Speaker 2: Land? He must be a alien blood?
Speaker 6: How long have we been asleep?
Speaker 2: Ours?
Speaker 5: Ours?
Speaker 9: Now, then, Dove and Astra, I want you to sit
Speaker 9: in front of that screen.
Speaker 10: It's the challenger.
Speaker 2: Tellson's come for right. It's in orbit around.
Speaker 10: Us, but moving into a tighter orbit according to Spiegel.
Speaker 2: Now, then an Astra.
Speaker 9: When the Helen discussed your ship with you, you said
Speaker 9: that it couldn't maneuver without due to a board that
Speaker 9: the control room needed a minimum crew of four.
Speaker 6: We told you the truth, sir.
Speaker 9: Well as you can see, it's left its Cairosian orbit
Speaker 9: and it's now orbiting us at a height of twenty.
Speaker 10: Miles fifteen miles.
Speaker 6: I suppose it might be possible to reprogram some of
Speaker 6: the specialist androids to take over certain functions for a
Speaker 6: limited time.
Speaker 2: And you're sure the Challenger is not armed.
Speaker 6: The Challenger is not armed. It's a survey ship.
Speaker 10: Thorton, a word, Please listen, Thornton. I'm monitored their cerebral
Speaker 10: activity very carefully during their interrogation. At no time did
Speaker 10: they lie their ship is unarmed. There is no reason
Speaker 10: for delaying its capture. Spiegel must be given his orders.
Speaker 9: But damn it, Helen, look at the size of the
Speaker 9: thing intercept to control the command center.
Speaker 2: The alien ship has closed.
Speaker 6: Its orbit to an altitude of ten miles.
Speaker 10: Coming forest down.
Speaker 9: Tell me something, Dove. If your ship is unarmed, where
Speaker 9: is it in such a tight orbit.
Speaker 6: Look, we've told you everything, and we've told you the truth.
Speaker 6: The Challenger is not armed.
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 11: The alien ship has begun its attack, Sir.
Speaker 6: Surface sensors indicate that a mountain has been destroyed.
Speaker 2: Armed Cerebral Monetary dat We require your orders to launch
Speaker 2: deep Light.
Speaker 9: Sir, answer brilliant Spiegel launch Steve lights no Speagel, cancel
Speaker 9: that order. See if you can contact him. I want
Speaker 9: to talk to their commander. What's his name?
Speaker 6: Commanded Telson?
Speaker 2: Commander Tellson?
Speaker 6: Yes, and for once he's using his imagination.
Speaker 12: People of Zelder five who This is the commander of
Speaker 12: starship Challenger.
Speaker 5: You are holding two of my crew prisoner.
Speaker 12: Unless you release them within thirty minutes, your satellite will
Speaker 12: be blasted to cosmic dust.
Speaker 5: He's broadcasting on all channels.
Speaker 2: Sir, you can reply.
Speaker 10: Chelson, it's Astra and d Off. Can you hear us?
Speaker 9: Nelson, I am Thordon, Grand Emperor of the Solara Empire.
Speaker 9: We have asked turned dive and they're safe, which is
Speaker 9: more than can be said for you. I have a
Speaker 9: flight of interceptors standing by.
Speaker 5: Deep Light, were destroyed in the last beam patterns.
Speaker 2: Why at you, idiot?
Speaker 6: Tellson, we're both safe.
Speaker 12: I'm sorry to have to do this, Darve and Estra,
Speaker 12: but Zelda five is needed for our propellant reservoirs. We're
Speaker 12: low on propellant mass and Zelda five atomizes nicely. We'll
Speaker 12: be activating the separation beams in twenty eight minutes.
Speaker 5: I hope you understand.
Speaker 6: We understand, Commander. The ship must come first.
Speaker 2: Propellant mass separation beams.
Speaker 13: What is this talk?
Speaker 6: It will be necessary for Commander Tellson to atomize your
Speaker 6: moon and transfer the US to our propellant reservoirs.
Speaker 10: He's lying. Look at those cerebral patterns on screen.
Speaker 9: Severn, Commander Tellson. I think perhaps we should meet to
Speaker 9: talk things over. There's no need for either of us
Speaker 9: to do anything hasty. Commander Tellson, do you have.
Speaker 5: An unarmed shuttle?
Speaker 2: Yes, my private ferry unarmed, of course, Commander. We will
Speaker 2: expect you in an hour. Commander, you will find me
Speaker 2: a most reasonable man to deal with. Gordham Es, Commander
Speaker 2: with Dove and Astra.
Speaker 9: I'm a guest on your ship, Tellson, but I have
Speaker 9: to say it. Your food is terrible. You know what
Speaker 9: I think half your troubles your food. I'm sure I
Speaker 9: grow a bit weird if I had to eat stuff
Speaker 9: like this every day. So you don't believe us.
Speaker 2: You say you left this planet Earth one hundred and
Speaker 2: fifteen years ago.
Speaker 6: Our grandparents left.
Speaker 10: Then we were all born.
Speaker 6: On the Challenger.
Speaker 9: You go on a grand tour of the universe, traveling
Speaker 9: in a ship which can, over a period of time,
Speaker 9: accelerate to nearly the speed of light, and you come
Speaker 9: back to this solar system to discover that this so
Speaker 9: called Earth has vanished, and that a million years have
Speaker 9: passed since you left.
Speaker 3: You've seen the holograms of Earth in our library. Do
Speaker 3: you think we can fake the recordings of an entire planet?
Speaker 2: That's a fascinating place. I give you that look sorden.
Speaker 6: Surely you can accept that we're all descended from the
Speaker 6: same piece. We speak the same.
Speaker 2: Language, but we don't look the same, eh to me?
Speaker 9: Your kids pretty odd kids maybe, But your kids you
Speaker 9: even admitted that you don't know how babies are born.
Speaker 11: Do you know?
Speaker 9: All I can say is that your two angels have
Speaker 9: deliberately kept you for ignorant.
Speaker 6: That is not so th Which one is that angel? Too?
Speaker 2: Damn voices.
Speaker 9: The Salarik Empire finally defeated all its computers during the
Speaker 9: Third Computer War too fifty years now they are limited
Speaker 9: to functions where their attendant has a switch to shut
Speaker 9: them off.
Speaker 4: Our two angels are more than computers.
Speaker 9: All guardian angels like to think they are. They like
Speaker 9: it even more if they can convince people that they are.
Speaker 9: They like two things, power and the increase of power.
Speaker 9: Your two angels won't be happy with power over your ship.
Speaker 9: They want power over an entire planet, preferably an inhabited planet.
Speaker 6: Why should our angels want power?
Speaker 9: It seems to me that maybe they're like the angels
Speaker 9: that led the first computer wall a thousand years back.
Speaker 9: My forefathers buried them all on Cairos in a steel tomb,
Speaker 9: thousands of them, just in case there were a few
Speaker 9: active circuits amongst them. That's why we didn't like you
Speaker 9: messing about digging above where they'd been buried.
Speaker 4: So that was the cause of the gravitational anomaly on Cairos.
Speaker 4: Tell us about your angels.
Speaker 9: Thorton, Maybe your angels aren't the same as your aliens,
Speaker 9: different culture.
Speaker 6: We are the same. Earth was once part of this
Speaker 6: solar system. The records we've shown you prove it.
Speaker 2: You know, my friends, I've almost tempted to believe you.
Speaker 9: It's pleasant to think that somewhere there could be a
Speaker 9: planet as soft and as agreeable as those holograms suggest.
Speaker 4: We've proved to you that it exists, Thorton, have you then?
Speaker 2: Where is this paradise? That's it?
Speaker 6: What the name the second Generation crew gave to an
Speaker 6: Earth type planet they'd found, Paradise.
Speaker 4: Talking about no such planet was ever found?
Speaker 11: Yes it was.
Speaker 6: We saw a recording of it once in the library, Astra.
Speaker 6: You remember it, don't you.
Speaker 10: There's a picture in my mind, Dove, but I think
Speaker 10: perhaps it's one that.
Speaker 2: You put there.
Speaker 6: Look, maybe the Hollo brand's still there. Come on, please,
Speaker 6: we must go back to the library. Dove.
Speaker 3: You're wasting your time.
Speaker 6: I know there's a Paradise recording.
Speaker 5: I know there is.
Speaker 4: All right, let's assume there was. Did it say anything
Speaker 4: about the planet? I can't remember, Angel one, Commander, was
Speaker 4: such a planet, Dove, as described found by the second
Speaker 4: generation crew?
Speaker 6: No, Commander, you can't take their word.
Speaker 5: Tellson, The Guardian Angels do not lie.
Speaker 9: I will tell you about your angels, Commander, Tellson. Once
Speaker 9: they were servants control systems to run your ship.
Speaker 2: Then a second.
Speaker 9: Generation crew came along and they partially accepted the Angels
Speaker 9: as a force beyond their control.
Speaker 2: And then the third General. Do you know how they
Speaker 2: got a name Angel on Zelda five.
Speaker 9: The word Angel was short for anciliary Guardian of Environment
Speaker 9: and Life.
Speaker 2: And gel simply.
Speaker 9: The chances are that all of you have seen the
Speaker 9: Paradise recording, but your friendly guardian angels have arranged.
Speaker 2: For you to forget you've seen it.
Speaker 9: They don't want you settling on an uninhabited planet when
Speaker 9: there's a populated Earth somewhere for them to conquer.
Speaker 4: We would never have survived without our guardian angels. They
Speaker 4: controlled the nursery androids that brought us up.
Speaker 2: They wanted you to live.
Speaker 9: Androids can't control a ship this size, but humans can,
Speaker 9: and they can control humans if the humans are stupid
Speaker 9: enough to let them.
Speaker 6: So you believe us now when we say that we're humans.
Speaker 4: Maybe do you believe that there was once a planet
Speaker 4: called Earth that was part of this solar system half
Speaker 4: a million years ago?
Speaker 9: We'll see, my friends, maybe I can help you in
Speaker 9: your search for this mysterious planet Earth. But first I
Speaker 9: must go down to Zelder five for a few days
Speaker 9: to discuss the matter with my advisers.
Speaker 6: Sorden, Yes, my friend, if we wanted to, how could
Speaker 6: we end the angel's control over us?
Speaker 2: Somewhere?
Speaker 9: In the ten mile length of this ship is the
Speaker 9: Angel's central switching room.
Speaker 2: Find that and you will control them very well. Be
Speaker 2: easy because they won't be that keen to tell you.
Speaker 14: Where it is.
Speaker 5: Thorden is dangerous.
Speaker 8: If he returns to the ship, we will have no
Speaker 8: option but to destroy him before he destroys us.
Speaker 6: I don't agree too.
Speaker 7: He's shrewd enough to realize that we've had plenty of
Speaker 7: time over the years to heavily defend our central switching room.
Speaker 7: His eyes glinted with greed when he was shown the
Speaker 7: holograms and videos of Earth. He sees it as another
Speaker 7: conquest and will be happy to use us to further
Speaker 7: his ambitions.
Speaker 5: What if Darve remembers about Paradise?
Speaker 6: Unlikely?
Speaker 7: Even so, we will not attempt another erasure of the
Speaker 7: cruise of the Paradise recording. It is dangerous and what
Speaker 7: is the point. Thorden is interested in nothing but finding Earth.
Speaker 7: In that respect, we can use him and his ambitions
Speaker 7: to further our aims.
Speaker 8: Perhaps you're right one, but we must not hesitate to
Speaker 8: destroy him if he becomes the slightest threat to us.
Speaker 6: Agreed number two.
Speaker 10: You know how I load the vacuum tube transport. Why
Speaker 10: can't we use your ferry.
Speaker 9: It's being refitted and rearmed for me. Remember, besides, the
Speaker 9: faery can't travel underground. We're going to a part of
Speaker 9: Zelda five that no one visits anymore. I tell you,
Speaker 9: how Anna, the holograms of Earth they showed me were fantastic.
Speaker 9: Put a planet like that in orbit round a stable
Speaker 9: main sequence star, and you've got the ideal world for
Speaker 9: us to live on.
Speaker 10: So all you have to do is locate their angels,
Speaker 10: central switching room and their ship's armament.
Speaker 2: You were right all along. The Challenger is unarmed.
Speaker 9: Then what Telson told me about their meteoroid annihilation shield
Speaker 9: pretty necessary when you're moving it near the speed of light. Eh,
Speaker 9: they bombarded us by coming in low and switching their
Speaker 9: shield on.
Speaker 2: And off, or maybe their kids, But they're pretty smart kids.
Speaker 10: And we seize their ship and use it to search
Speaker 10: for Earth. It can't be far if their navigation computers
Speaker 10: have selected this.
Speaker 9: Solar System, or it's not as simple as Atlan. Maybe
Speaker 9: the Earth was once a planet of the Solar System.
Speaker 10: I think you spent too long on their ship.
Speaker 2: Thought the tube starts slowing in two minutes. We'd better
Speaker 2: move to the d acceleration seats. Oh, careful pressures. No
Speaker 2: wonder if all the systems still.
Speaker 13: Work, State or business.
Speaker 2: Ah, it works. We wish to visit the Custodian of
Speaker 2: the past.
Speaker 13: Access to the Custodian is forbidden Selda five Ordans eight
Speaker 13: sixty five past in the year twenty of Grand Emperor.
Speaker 2: I'm Grand Emperor Thordon.
Speaker 13: There is no match of your voice print with Grand
Speaker 13: Emperor Thordon.
Speaker 2: I was a boy when I last visited the Custodian.
Speaker 2: My voice has changed.
Speaker 13: Place your seal of office on the plattern.
Speaker 9: Sometimes I think we ought to eliminate the non free
Speaker 9: will computers as well.
Speaker 10: I suppose we'll be able to get out again.
Speaker 2: It hasn't changed.
Speaker 10: That's the Custodian of the past.
Speaker 2: That column of light, that's her pretty eh. I wonder
Speaker 2: if she remembers me.
Speaker 14: Hello, Thorton, I knew you would be Grand Emperor one day.
Speaker 14: You feared nothing when you were a child. You knew
Speaker 14: when to exercise caution, and you wanted power above all else.
Speaker 2: Do you remember the stories you told me when I
Speaker 2: was little Custodian.
Speaker 14: I deal only in the history of this planet, Thordon.
Speaker 14: The immutable past, the history of the Salari Empire. All
Speaker 14: else is alien to me.
Speaker 9: But you told me stories of the golden age before
Speaker 9: the Empire, Custodian.
Speaker 14: I may have built on curious remnants in my memory
Speaker 14: of the unknown days before the Empire, Thordon, But those
Speaker 14: were stories told to a wide eyed boy. I would
Speaker 14: not have stored them.
Speaker 9: I want you to tell me those stories again, Custodian.
Speaker 9: I want you to pretend that I'm that wide eyed
Speaker 9: little boy again.
Speaker 10: I wasn't the obscenity destroyed.
Speaker 14: Your companion hates me, Thordon. I can sense the poison
Speaker 14: she has in her mind for me.
Speaker 9: I used to sit here at your base, Custodian, Remember,
Speaker 9: and I used to stare down into the pools of
Speaker 9: time where you made pictures.
Speaker 6: Remember, of course, I remember, Thordon.
Speaker 2: Tell me a story, Custodian.
Speaker 9: Tell me the story you used to tell me about
Speaker 9: the beginning of time, when you used to make me.
Speaker 2: Stare down into the pools of time. Please, Custodian, very well, Thorden.
Speaker 14: But you must understand that it is only a story
Speaker 14: built on the strange elements of unproved knowledge I have
Speaker 14: stored in my memory.
Speaker 10: This is a ridiculous charade, Thortom. If the Chief of
Speaker 10: Staff could see you.
Speaker 14: Look down into the pools of time. Look down down,
Speaker 14: and you will see the beginning of time, when the
Speaker 14: Sun was a whirling cloud of contracting gas, spinning much
Speaker 14: faster than it is now.
Speaker 2: I can't see anything.
Speaker 14: You used to love the sounds I made, although there
Speaker 14: are no sounds in space.
Speaker 2: Make the sounds, please, Custodian.
Speaker 14: And then the Sun began to spin faster and faster
Speaker 14: as it shrank, and suddenly it bums with clouds of
Speaker 14: matter out into space. Because the Sunsen's gravity was too
Speaker 14: much for the clouds to escape, so they orbited around
Speaker 14: the Sun. Countless billions of years passed, and then one
Speaker 14: day a nearby star far bigger than the Sun, suddenly exploded,
Speaker 14: and for millions of years, the Sun and the clouds
Speaker 14: of gas going round the Sun were bombarded with human
Speaker 14: to meteorites. The mighty bombardment ended four and a half
Speaker 14: thousand million years ago, and when it was over, instead
Speaker 14: of clouds of gas orbiting the Sun, there were planets,
Speaker 14: many of which bear the marks of that terrible assault
Speaker 14: to this day. And there they are, you see them,
Speaker 14: beautiful children of the Sun, moving against the stars as
Speaker 14: they circle obediently around their mother. There's Malcara, the first
Speaker 14: of the Sun's children, orbiting so closely that her rocks
Speaker 14: are almost melting and making rivers look closer. For now
Speaker 14: we come to the second planet, the most beautiful of
Speaker 14: all the six children of the Sun.
Speaker 10: What's that planet?
Speaker 14: And you see the moon? In those days, the Moon
Speaker 14: orbited the beautiful planet. Not now, for the beautiful planet
Speaker 14: has gone.
Speaker 2: What's happened to it?
Speaker 14: The people who lived on the beautiful planet were very clever,
Speaker 14: for it was they who spread out across the Solar
Speaker 14: systems and plundered the moons of other planets for the
Speaker 14: minerals that the people of the beautiful planet needed. The
Speaker 14: first men and women to set foot on Zelda five,
Speaker 14: our home, were miners.
Speaker 2: What happened to the beautiful planet Custodian?
Speaker 14: One day its people became afraid of the Sun that
Speaker 14: had given them warmth and light. They started studying the
Speaker 14: strange forces of gravity and magnetism that pervaded the cosmos.
Speaker 14: They built several artificial sons to pour down energy on
Speaker 14: their planet, and when they had mastered the forces of
Speaker 14: gravity and magnetism, they took their beautiful planet out of
Speaker 14: the Solar system and went in search of a sun
Speaker 14: that they were not afraid of.
Speaker 2: How long ago is this, Custodian.
Speaker 14: Time doesn't matter. It's only a legend from before the
Speaker 14: founding of the Salarik Empire.
Speaker 10: What was the name of the beautiful planet, Custodian?
Speaker 2: I'm not interested in your problems, old man. If you wish,
Speaker 2: I will arrange for you to have all the research
Speaker 2: facilities you need.
Speaker 15: Is it possible? Time is very strange. You must understand
Speaker 15: it has a variable quantity. The rate at which it
Speaker 15: flows depends on the speed of the observer, the mathematics involved.
Speaker 15: I'm not interested in the mathematics of the problem, you,
Speaker 15: sterile asteroid urchin. If I could build a ship that
Speaker 15: could travel at near the speed of light, would it
Speaker 15: be possible to leave Zelda five, journey for what was
Speaker 15: to me one hundred and fifteen years, and returned to
Speaker 15: Zelda five to discover that a million years had passed? Here?
Speaker 15: Will if I suppose it would be possible, assuming that
Speaker 15: you could build such an advanced ship, thank you and
Speaker 15: live for one hundred and fifteen years?
Speaker 10: Hmmm, I do like apple straight off the tree.
Speaker 6: Yes, Thornden was right. The food on Challenger is terrible
Speaker 6: compared with what they gave us on Zelda Fire. Why,
Speaker 6: there's nothing wrong with the food grown on this fruit farm,
Speaker 6: just the way it is.
Speaker 3: Stop tickling my toes.
Speaker 6: Perhaps Angel one and two do something to the food,
Speaker 6: like what, I don't know. Something to keep you young
Speaker 6: and spotted.
Speaker 10: I'm not spotty. What are you doing?
Speaker 6: I want to look at you.
Speaker 2: Oh, come on, Astro.
Speaker 6: We always used to be naked when we played.
Speaker 10: That was a long time ago.
Speaker 6: You're changing on you.
Speaker 10: I don want to talk about it.
Speaker 6: I told you what was happening to me. Is that?
Speaker 6: What's happening to you now?
Speaker 2: Please?
Speaker 6: Esther, you must tell me.
Speaker 10: Let's talk about something else.
Speaker 6: Is what's happening to me now happening to you?
Speaker 14: Yes?
Speaker 2: No, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 10: What's happening to us?
Speaker 2: What's going to happen to us?
Speaker 10: But why Thorden?
Speaker 9: You have an empire to rule, a handful of sterile
Speaker 9: moons orbiting Zelder and a collection of Baron worked out asteroids.
Speaker 9: There are no more pirates and no more fun. What
Speaker 9: sort of an empire is that?
Speaker 2: Eh?
Speaker 3: What I need is excitement, And do you think searching
Speaker 3: for the planet Earth is going to be exciting?
Speaker 10: Well, you're wrong.
Speaker 3: It's going to take several years to reach the nearest
Speaker 3: star cluster.
Speaker 2: Which we'll pass in suspended animation. Right, So what do
Speaker 2: you say?
Speaker 3: What did Telson say?
Speaker 2: If it's all right by you, then that's all right
Speaker 2: by him.
Speaker 3: Wow, there's no doubt that we could use help force
Speaker 3: the absolute minimum running the challenger? Would you take orders
Speaker 3: from either me or Telson?
Speaker 5: But of course two Zelda five shuttles approaching screen five.
Speaker 9: That'll be Helan coming to say goodbye. If you agree
Speaker 9: to my coming along, that is Shanna.
Speaker 3: Very well, I'll tell Tellson that I.
Speaker 2: Agree, Shana.
Speaker 9: If you could show me where my cabin is, I
Speaker 9: have to hand over my seal of office to Helen.
Speaker 2: It's a simple little private ceremony.
Speaker 10: So you're going through with it.
Speaker 2: Did you manage to smuggle a warrior android a board?
Speaker 10: Yes, his name's Fagor. He's the latest creation of the
Speaker 10: weapons shops, Dynamic wide beam lasers so he can blast
Speaker 10: his way through any obstruction, and built in thruster so
Speaker 10: he can travel in space as fast as your ferry.
Speaker 2: Sounds dangerous.
Speaker 10: Believe me, Thornton, fake always deadly, and he's programmed to
Speaker 10: take immediate revenge against the Challenger if anything happens to you.
Speaker 10: I only hope you'll be enough.
Speaker 9: Against those four sounds, as if you'll be more than
Speaker 9: enough in any case, there's almost my ferry.
Speaker 2: There are enough arms on that now to destroy this
Speaker 2: whole ship if necessary.
Speaker 10: But what about the two angels?
Speaker 9: I can handle A couple of computers. Won't take me
Speaker 9: long to find their control room.
Speaker 2: You worry about your instructions.
Speaker 9: As soon as we've discovered Earth, I'll return and lead
Speaker 9: the invasion fleet.
Speaker 10: It could take years, Thornton.
Speaker 2: But think of the prize, Helen.
Speaker 10: I'd better be getting back to Zelda five now. Good luck, Thornton,
Speaker 10: till we meet again.
Speaker 2: Till we meet again, Helen. Were you listening to that
Speaker 2: angel one?
Speaker 6: And we were listening, Thornton.
Speaker 5: And we have located where the robot Fagor is hiding.
Speaker 9: But there's not much you can do about me, my
Speaker 9: mischievous little anciliary Guardians of Environment and Life.
Speaker 2: Your program to protect the Challenger.
Speaker 9: And you know that I have only to give the command,
Speaker 9: and Fagor could seize control, and if he gets the
Speaker 9: idea that something has happened to me, he might just
Speaker 9: do that.
Speaker 5: What do you want with us, Thornton, You too.
Speaker 2: Want to find the Earth pretty badly.
Speaker 9: You want power over something more than a survey ship, right,
Speaker 9: a planet, maybe a planet like the Earth.
Speaker 5: That could be an accurate assessment.
Speaker 2: A damned writer's an accurate assessment.
Speaker 9: Now, the way I see it is that there's nothing
Speaker 9: I can do about you, and there's nothing you can
Speaker 9: do about.
Speaker 2: Me, and we're all after the same thing, so we
Speaker 2: might as well do a deal.
Speaker 6: I didn't mean to hurt you, Astra.
Speaker 2: You didn't.
Speaker 6: Do you feel any different, only that I want to
Speaker 6: be with you now always.
Speaker 2: Dove.
Speaker 5: I wonder if it has a.
Speaker 2: Purpose, darv Astra. Can you hear me?
Speaker 5: Oh ah, yes, Telson.
Speaker 2: You're both wanted in the main control room.
Speaker 4: In one hour, we're leaving the Zelda five orbit.
Speaker 6: Where are we going?
Speaker 13: We're going to.
Speaker 4: Tersus nine, the nearest star cluster to the Solar System.
Speaker 4: It has over two thousand potential suns and it is
Speaker 4: the best place to start the Earth search mission.
Speaker 11: Oh, what's the matter Tersus nine, Astra? I'm sure the
Speaker 11: commander of The second Generation crew said on the hologram
Speaker 11: that Tersus nine was where they discovered the Paradise planet.
Speaker 5: In the Pools of.
Speaker 1: Time, Part five of Earth Search by James Follett. Shawn
Speaker 1: Arnold played Commander Tellson, Amanda Marray, Sharner, Hayden Wood Dove,
Speaker 1: and Katherine hurlbut Astra Angel one was played by Sonia
Speaker 1: Fraser and Angel two by Gordon Reed. Thornton was John Bott, Helen,
Speaker 1: Judy Franklin Spiegel, Stephen Garlic, the Custodian Eve Kapp, and
Speaker 1: the Old Man Godfrey Kenton. Earth's Search is directed by Glennderman.