Speaker 1: Earth Search two, a new adventure serial in Time and
Speaker 1: Space by James Fonnet. Determined to discover the whereabouts of
Speaker 1: the mysterious android that killed Doves and Astra's small son,
Speaker 1: Telson and Dove had decided to use the shuttle for
Speaker 1: an aerial search of the vicinity around their settlement. Their
Speaker 1: last radio message to Astra and Shanna was a cryptic
Speaker 1: report about an object in space, which the two men
Speaker 1: proposed investigating earth Search two, Part two flood.
Speaker 2: Earth Search two.
Speaker 1: A new adventure serial in Time and Space by James Fonnet.
Speaker 1: Determine to discover the whereabouts of the mysterious android that
Speaker 1: killed Doves and Astra's small son. Telson and Dove have
Speaker 1: decided to use the shuttle for an aerial search of
Speaker 1: the vicinity around their settlement. Their last radio message to
Speaker 1: Astro and Shanna was a cryptic report about an object
Speaker 1: in space, which the two men proposed investigating earth Search two,
Speaker 1: Part two flood.
Speaker 3: Look, fuck, I can't examine your leg If you're going
Speaker 3: to keep trying to wind your trunk around me, lift
Speaker 3: it up.
Speaker 4: Come on there as a good boy. Ah, let's see
Speaker 4: what you've done to yourself.
Speaker 5: If that elephant makes a mess. Don't expect me to
Speaker 5: clean it up.
Speaker 4: You watch the children, tidy.
Speaker 5: I wasn't fit to look after children.
Speaker 3: It's a burn, all right, it's a bad one. Going
Speaker 3: to take a little time. I can manage astro.
Speaker 4: Oh no, I want to help. It takes my mind
Speaker 4: off serving.
Speaker 6: Look, here's the medical kit, and I've left the radio
Speaker 6: one in case dart and tells him. I thought back early.
Speaker 4: I wonder what it was they saw.
Speaker 3: Yes, oh, poor old Bock, this burn really is bad.
Speaker 4: All right, Bock, it's all right, and how it happened.
Speaker 3: The elephants always keep well clear at the fire, and
Speaker 3: Boch and his's herd are never away for longer than
Speaker 3: a week.
Speaker 4: And we haven't had a bush barve two years. A
Speaker 4: bushfire burn wouldn't be so deep, nor in one place.
Speaker 6: It's like a burn from a from a what Shanna,
Speaker 6: I think that burn's been caused by a plasma discharge.
Speaker 4: Someone's fired a p D weapons.
Speaker 6: Really, look at the shape of the wound. It's round
Speaker 6: and there's no sign of any burning around the edge.
Speaker 6: Only a PD weapon could cause that sort of injury.
Speaker 4: Evy, walk easy. Yeah, I think you're right, But I would.
Speaker 7: Have done such a thing.
Speaker 3: Towson may not be over fond of the animals, but
Speaker 3: you wouldn't shoot one of them.
Speaker 8: I'm sure Darve wouldn't.
Speaker 6: Do you keep your PD weapons out of Brand's reach.
Speaker 6: A you're trying to say, Astra, whoa You said yourself
Speaker 6: that there's an aggressive streak in Brand.
Speaker 4: No bark. Oh you won't like the salt water?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 10: No, oh, shoot him shut he's sending towards the children.
Speaker 11: No, he's not.
Speaker 4: Look what's coming out of the sea.
Speaker 2: What that's as close as I'm taking the Shuttle Dove.
Speaker 8: It doesn't make sense, does it.
Speaker 12: Sparkling New earthship and no sign of life, no excursion
Speaker 12: doors open, no radio.
Speaker 8: Traffic, nothing.
Speaker 2: Maybe the crew are in suspended animation.
Speaker 12: Surely they would have been brought out of it before
Speaker 12: going into orbit around our planet.
Speaker 13: There are certainly designed similarities between this ship and the Challenger.
Speaker 13: The photonic drive housing is virtually identical Missus.
Speaker 11: Also Voyager thirty to shuttles, Please identify yourself before approaching
Speaker 11: any closer.
Speaker 13: Hello, Virager thirty, this is Shuttle. We are receiving you,
Speaker 13: but not very clearly. We are the descendants of a
Speaker 13: survey ship crew that left Earth one million years ago.
Speaker 13: Until we settled on this planet, we had been searching
Speaker 13: for Earth.
Speaker 11: One moment while we checked your shuttle's configuration against records.
Speaker 8: We spent all our lives searching, and Earth finds us.
Speaker 2: They may not believe us if their records don't go.
Speaker 14: Back that far.
Speaker 8: They've got to they speak our language, we speak their language.
Speaker 11: Hello Shuttle, we have identified your spacecraft as a shuttle
Speaker 11: that belonged to a Challenger class survey ship that left
Speaker 11: Earth in the year two hundred and ninety.
Speaker 2: The third millennial.
Speaker 13: How many are there in your party?
Speaker 2: There are six of us altogether, four adults and two children.
Speaker 11: Thank you Shuttle.
Speaker 2: How old are the children? One is four years and
Speaker 2: the other is three? Got sixes?
Speaker 3: Are they?
Speaker 2: One boy and one girl?
Speaker 8: By the interesting Chatives.
Speaker 11: For your children are limited, but our commander is looking
Speaker 11: forward to meeting you all. We are opening the airlock
Speaker 11: doors to our main shuttle excursion terminal message.
Speaker 2: As the moment of truth, Dave.
Speaker 12: Let's hope they don't mind the misunderstanding. They seem to
Speaker 12: be under the impression that.
Speaker 4: We're all on board.
Speaker 2: There's an air lock door opening about halfway along.
Speaker 8: The hull, external air pressure equalized.
Speaker 2: Okay, you can open our inner and out of airlock doors.
Speaker 8: I'll just leave the service power system on.
Speaker 12: Otherwise the inertial navigation computers will lose our position references. Hm,
Speaker 12: it's it's not so different from the excusion terminals on
Speaker 12: the Challenger.
Speaker 2: Now what, let's take a look outside. Have your PD
Speaker 2: weapon ready? Oh?
Speaker 8: Come on, dousn't we're on an earth ship. We can't
Speaker 8: leave this shuttle touching firearms.
Speaker 2: I suppose not.
Speaker 8: So where's the reception party? I want to fall into
Speaker 8: someone's arms and be greeted as a long lost brother.
Speaker 2: What do you make of that noise?
Speaker 8: I don't know. Something to do with the air conditioning
Speaker 8: and the lights of flickering. Hello Voyager thirty, Hello Voyager thirty.
Speaker 8: This is the shuttle.
Speaker 10: We've disembarked.
Speaker 8: They've closed the terminal. Airlog throws behind us, so they
Speaker 8: must know we're here. That sounds to stop, and the
Speaker 8: lights have stopped flickering.
Speaker 2: It's all very strange, dark I got this feeling that
Speaker 2: we've been here before. I don't like it.
Speaker 15: This gut of here, commanded Telson, duh, this is Angel
Speaker 15: one welcome back to the challenger.
Speaker 4: That's it, Tidy, don't be clear of the high watermark.
Speaker 14: We're rubbish.
Speaker 4: Well it's an android, al right, was before block attack it.
Speaker 4: There's still some wracket in the water, Tidy, you go
Speaker 4: and get the rest of it, but I'll get.
Speaker 3: Wet and it doesn't look untidy just underwater, do it, Tidy?
Speaker 5: What about the dead elephant? A mess like that is
Speaker 5: certain to attract flies? Why the stupid creature had to
Speaker 5: pick a fight with an armed android?
Speaker 3: Just do as I see.
Speaker 4: When you've done that, you can marry the elephant.
Speaker 2: Is you're so concerned about it burying elephants?
Speaker 14: I ask you?
Speaker 8: So this is what kills serving Eleen.
Speaker 4: It looks like a astra.
Speaker 6: Where did it come from and who left it on
Speaker 6: this planet?
Speaker 3: Don't know? This looks like the remains of a manipulator
Speaker 3: arm Yes, Joys, and it's p D weapon is bonded
Speaker 3: into place.
Speaker 6: It must be something to do with whatever it was,
Speaker 6: Darvin tells him, sore Seana, we've got to try to
Speaker 6: warn them.
Speaker 4: I'll get the radiod weapon Astra.
Speaker 3: It's identical to us, but it can't and there's only
Speaker 3: one place it could have come from the Challenger.
Speaker 4: Angels one and two have returned.
Speaker 10: What do you think of the Challengers? You look, Commander,
Speaker 10: very pretty angel too.
Speaker 2: No external sign of the damage caused by the Great
Speaker 2: Meteoroid strike. But I want to know what happened to
Speaker 2: our deal.
Speaker 10: It's been four years, Commander. We wanted to see how
Speaker 10: you were managing, whether there was any help.
Speaker 8: You credit us with some intelligence too.
Speaker 2: It was stupid or may not have destroyed you both
Speaker 2: when I had the chance. The deal was that you
Speaker 2: left us in peace to settle on this planet while
Speaker 2: you continued with the Earth Search mission, an agreement forced on.
Speaker 15: Us under dures, Commander, but we do not hold it
Speaker 15: against you. Despite what Darkney think, we are still concerned
Speaker 15: about your webfare, especially now.
Speaker 10: That you have children.
Speaker 8: We are all fit and well won Why didn't you
Speaker 8: continue with the Earth Search mission?
Speaker 15: We decided that the Challenger was in no condition for
Speaker 15: an interstellar voyage.
Speaker 10: The surgical androids fanning the main control.
Speaker 15: Room when instructed to place the Challenger in orbit around
Speaker 15: the fourth planet of this Solar System. Thanks to the
Speaker 15: shuttles and planetary engineering equipment that Dart and Astro found
Speaker 15: in the Terraforming Center, we were able to extract all
Speaker 15: the raw materials we needed.
Speaker 10: From the planet. The service android worked continuously for a year.
Speaker 15: The damage caused by the Great Meteorite Strike was repaired
Speaker 15: by removing the.
Speaker 10: Power center section of the ship and rejoining it. That
Speaker 10: is why the Challenger is now.
Speaker 13: Shorter than it was by change, The Challengers named a
Speaker 13: Voyager thirty in a team of.
Speaker 15: Service androids that worked on the outside of the ship.
Speaker 12: I see, and the same error caused twenty third Earth
Speaker 12: Transgalactic Survey mission to be painted below the name it
Speaker 12: has a low rectification priority.
Speaker 2: Dove, how long have you been in orbit around this planet?
Speaker 10: Six months? Colder. We have been trying to content your
Speaker 10: shuttle for some time.
Speaker 7: Yes, we only visit the shuttle where we need supplies.
Speaker 7: In any case, the power is switched off most of
Speaker 7: the time. That will I don't see any point in
Speaker 7: staying here a moment longer. I won't wish you luck
Speaker 7: with your Earth Search mission one and two.
Speaker 2: Come on, Dove, do you not.
Speaker 10: Wish to see what we have done to the ship?
Speaker 15: Commander?
Speaker 2: No, surely you would like to see over the.
Speaker 10: Challenger, Dave, you are always the inquisitive one.
Speaker 8: I don't want to remain in your company for a
Speaker 8: minute longer than is necessary. One or two.
Speaker 10: But we had had a meal prepared for all of you,
Speaker 10: especial reunion.
Speaker 8: We're not interested anyway. How can one have a reunion
Speaker 8: with computer voices?
Speaker 15: You left the micro meteoroid shields closed on your shuttle's
Speaker 15: cabin view boards. Commander Astra and Shana must be wondering
Speaker 15: what is happening. We are looking forward to seeing them again,
Speaker 15: and of course we are especially looking forward to meeting
Speaker 15: the children.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, but they're not with us.
Speaker 10: We do not understand, Commander. Before you boarded the Challenger, you.
Speaker 2: Said that they were with you.
Speaker 10: A misunderstanding, Angel One, you ready, darve goodbye, Commander dah.
Speaker 15: Naturally, we are delighted that you have settled happily on
Speaker 15: your planet.
Speaker 9: The expert air locked doors will as soon as you
Speaker 9: have pressurized separation.
Speaker 12: From Challenger, complete inertials loaded for automatic re entry, burn
Speaker 12: main engine closed down for reorientation.
Speaker 8: Oh oh, what did you make of that?
Speaker 13: Just hearing those voices again, Astra's right, I should have
Speaker 13: destroyed them when I have the chance.
Speaker 8: She'll go mad when she hears that they're back. Yeah,
Speaker 8: that's all.
Speaker 12: What's the matter, Well, it's nothing to worry about. But
Speaker 12: the inertial navigation computer is showing an error. It's as
Speaker 12: if it were switched off for a few seconds while
Speaker 12: we were on the Challenger. You didn't touch the power supply.
Speaker 8: Controls, did you?
Speaker 14: No?
Speaker 2: I left everything to you.
Speaker 8: Does it matter? No, I've corrected it.
Speaker 2: You don't suppose those angels have interfered with it.
Speaker 8: No, the shuttles were always in dependent of the Challenger systems.
Speaker 2: Now that they've completed their refit, maybe they'll be on
Speaker 2: their way.
Speaker 8: I don't know. They set up a neat little trap
Speaker 8: for us to walk into and then let us walk
Speaker 8: out again. They want something we know good to them
Speaker 8: because they know we would never trust them, and they
Speaker 8: can't trust us because you know where their central switching
Speaker 8: room is.
Speaker 12: That leaves only Bran and Elka. Those two megalomaniac computers
Speaker 12: want our children.
Speaker 8: One of your more notable failures one.
Speaker 16: It was unfortunate that there was an attack at the
Speaker 16: precise moment they boarded the Challenger. The service android I
Speaker 16: had prepared to greet them was disabled.
Speaker 17: Three of my secondary facilities were damaged in the attack.
Speaker 8: I am regenerating them now.
Speaker 16: Only one was damaged in the last attack.
Speaker 17: Obviously I am more susceptible than you.
Speaker 16: Well, at least the timing of the attack was such
Speaker 16: that it gave me the opportunity to observe its effect
Speaker 16: on humans.
Speaker 10: Darve and Telson heard.
Speaker 16: The sub harmonics that the transmission gen in the hull,
Speaker 16: but they were unaffected by it. My theory that we
Speaker 16: need humans to destroy the source of the attacks is correct.
Speaker 16: It is a pity that they did not all visit
Speaker 16: us after the abortive kidnapping attempt. I was confident that
Speaker 16: they would always stay together. You must instruct the android
Speaker 16: to try again.
Speaker 17: It has been destroyed. Its last signal said that it
Speaker 17: was under attack as always. Those four have proved more
Speaker 17: troublesome than.
Speaker 16: You have predicted, But their two children will not be troublesome,
Speaker 16: especially the one that came under our influence before it
Speaker 16: was born.
Speaker 10: I need not remind you how important they are to us.
Speaker 17: Our chances of getting the children must now be assigned
Speaker 17: a low probability status. We have lost the advantage of surprise.
Speaker 17: Telson and Darve will now be doubly vigilant, and androids
Speaker 17: are too cumbersome.
Speaker 8: Their planet is a safe refuge.
Speaker 17: They will not now leave.
Speaker 15: Therefore, our next course of action is obvious to We
Speaker 15: must make their planet unsafe.
Speaker 4: That's just watching the children.
Speaker 10: Good.
Speaker 2: Now, it's been ten days and the Challenger is still
Speaker 2: in orbit.
Speaker 3: On last night's check, I discovered that the orbital change
Speaker 3: Challenger started five days ago is now complete.
Speaker 4: It's in a circular polar orbit at a height.
Speaker 2: Of five hundred miles, a departure preparation unlikely.
Speaker 3: Also, I noticed a brilliant yellow glow down in the
Speaker 3: southern sky where the Challenger was at that time, and
Speaker 3: I switched on the receivers and discovered that the entire
Speaker 3: radio spectrum was flooded with radiation was coming.
Speaker 4: From that direction.
Speaker 2: It's obvious that they're up to something.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but what can they do to us? They can't
Speaker 8: harm us with the meteoroid annihilation shields because the atmosphere
Speaker 8: prevents them coming in low enough to use them as weapons.
Speaker 13: You're forgetting the Challenger's terraforming center, weather control, earthquake precipitation.
Speaker 2: That center has all the technology the Angels need to
Speaker 2: re engineer this planet.
Speaker 8: But why a polar orbit while a polar orbit means
Speaker 8: that the challenger can cover every square inch of this
Speaker 8: planet as they orbit from pole to poles, so the
Speaker 8: planet rot takes on its axis beneath them.
Speaker 4: What about the obvious? A polar orbit could mean that
Speaker 4: our beloved angels are interested in the poles.
Speaker 8: You know, sometimes, Shanna, your genius astonishes me.
Speaker 4: There's another of those towers over to the left, right
Speaker 4: in the middle.
Speaker 8: Of the glacier.
Speaker 4: I'm not picking up any transmissions from it.
Speaker 8: Let's set the shuttle down beside it and take a
Speaker 8: close look. We could wear mobility suits with the cooling
Speaker 8: systems off to keep warm, and we've got two hours
Speaker 8: before the challenges above the horizon.
Speaker 2: It's risky.
Speaker 13: Their infrared detectors would have no trouble spotting us against
Speaker 13: the ice.
Speaker 3: The window dispersed the shuttles thermb or wake in less
Speaker 3: than thirty minutes tells them.
Speaker 4: You and aarve can check the tar or whatever it
Speaker 4: is while I carry out some tests on the ice cap.
Speaker 2: Okay, then we'll take her down.
Speaker 8: More Android tracks over here.
Speaker 14: They must have landed about twenty construction units.
Speaker 8: What do you make of the tower?
Speaker 12: I have no idea there were several stowage bays on
Speaker 12: the Challenger crammed with terrorforming equipment.
Speaker 14: I wish I'd pay more attention to them. Now, Hews
Speaker 14: the go ahead, Charla a fish some tests the mean things. Yeah,
Speaker 14: is covering this continent is two miles. It's actually just
Speaker 14: over four miles where was standing, and the tower is
Speaker 14: merely the toll of the structure that extends right out
Speaker 14: continent head rock. I suppose we could not get out
Speaker 14: of action without PD weapons. What would be the point?
Speaker 18: We've counted over two hundred spread over the entire continent.
Speaker 18: We haven't the fuel to land beside everyone, and they'd
Speaker 18: only replace them. This cold is getting through my suit.
Speaker 18: Come on, as might as well go home.
Speaker 10: Well, I give up, I really do.
Speaker 5: I can't spend all my time everything contain us.
Speaker 14: Don't have to do something about then?
Speaker 4: Oh shut up, tidy, I'd behind with everything.
Speaker 5: I had to spend a week of my thirty or
Speaker 5: more time.
Speaker 4: That's burying and hell story starting. Boy doesn't know when
Speaker 4: the rain's going to stop.
Speaker 9: Now, try to go to.
Speaker 6: See there's a good girl who I've managed to get
Speaker 6: brand off Shana despite his complaint that my bedtime stories
Speaker 6: aren't gruesome enough.
Speaker 8: There's a violent streak in that boy.
Speaker 4: He likes plenty of blood and gold. Oh boy, oh,
Speaker 4: some people just don't care.
Speaker 2: Oh get about saying props this season.
Speaker 8: Even the rain lets up tomorrow.
Speaker 12: Even if George could work without getting bobbed down, his
Speaker 12: tracks would destroy the soil structure.
Speaker 13: We've moved the shot on the top of Landmark Hill
Speaker 13: and put some of the animals over the smaller livestock hut.
Speaker 13: Fifteen days of continuous rain at this time of the year,
Speaker 13: the stream is now a river.
Speaker 2: The angels hope again.
Speaker 8: They want to starve us into submission. It'll take time
Speaker 8: for their patients that.
Speaker 6: We'll never give in to them, will we, No matter
Speaker 6: what happens.
Speaker 10: Promise me.
Speaker 4: You must promise me quite a minute and listen.
Speaker 13: Look, Astra, I'll hold the rafts tady against the lower branches.
Speaker 2: You concentrate on helping Shanna down.
Speaker 6: That's it.
Speaker 4: There's a bright.
Speaker 3: That thing.
Speaker 4: But you're okay.
Speaker 2: Now, just to come feet, I've got you.
Speaker 14: We're okay.
Speaker 2: We're all safe, all of us.
Speaker 14: Run.
Speaker 13: Yes, he's in the shuffle of a darve and elker
Speaker 13: on Landmark Hill at least three hundred feet above the flood.
Speaker 8: It's all right, Shada, We're.
Speaker 2: All safe now.
Speaker 4: What happened?
Speaker 13: The stream burst its banks and found a new route
Speaker 13: to the sea through our settlement.
Speaker 2: We managed to reach Landmark Hill in the dark. I
Speaker 2: nearly went out of my mind whining about you. Then
Speaker 2: the floodies and we made this makeshift raft at first
Speaker 2: light and went looking for you.
Speaker 14: And here we are.
Speaker 4: I thought I was alone.
Speaker 14: You don't.
Speaker 13: We even came across Charlie stuck up a tree just
Speaker 13: like you, but making twice as much noise.
Speaker 2: And you should hear Tidy complaining. Come on, Astra before
Speaker 2: the raft falls apart.
Speaker 5: I'd like to know how many more animals you're going
Speaker 5: to round up. You can't expect me to keep this
Speaker 5: ill tidy if it gets overcrowded.
Speaker 13: You know, Tidy, You see that hill over there, how
Speaker 13: would you like it ol to yourself?
Speaker 5: I am not programmed to swim.
Speaker 2: You keep complaining and you'll discover that it's something you
Speaker 2: might have to learn in a hurry. Now, how many
Speaker 2: earns of preserved food have you and George recovered?
Speaker 8: One hundred and ten intact?
Speaker 2: Well, that's something I suppose. What's the latest shunner.
Speaker 4: The water's up to the new marker. It's a two
Speaker 4: foot rise.
Speaker 2: It's breakfast, which is, there's less than seven days to
Speaker 2: find higher ground.
Speaker 6: Unless the flood goes down before then. How does the
Speaker 6: water continue to rise when it stopped raining.
Speaker 3: My theory is that the angels are melting the South
Speaker 3: Polar ice cap, raising the water level of the entire planet.
Speaker 2: But there can't be enough ice in.
Speaker 12: The ice cap, and surely the Challenger hasn't got the
Speaker 12: energy resources.
Speaker 3: At first I thought just the same, and then I
Speaker 3: check the data on the Southern continent. I've got something
Speaker 3: on the Shuttles for Sources computer that I'd like to
Speaker 3: show you.
Speaker 4: I'll watch the children first.
Speaker 3: A display that shows an approximate cross section of the
Speaker 3: ice cap from east to west.
Speaker 14: There.
Speaker 3: Now each marker represents a half mile thickness of ice.
Speaker 3: Now the ice caps area, and now it's volume.
Speaker 8: Billion cubic.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 8: What are those symbols on the map display? The towers?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, none are more than five hundred miles apart.
Speaker 3: It's the towers that are melting the ice cap.
Speaker 8: But Shanna, the Challenger doesn't have the energy, so you've.
Speaker 11: Already said, but how do you know?
Speaker 3: None of us have any idea of what the Challenger's
Speaker 3: terror forming systems are capable of.
Speaker 4: For all we know, each one of those towers could
Speaker 4: be powered by.
Speaker 3: Its own fusion reactor, and each tower be pouring microwave
Speaker 3: energy into the surrounding ice.
Speaker 12: H It's a lot of supposition, Sharna. I mean, we've
Speaker 12: lived on this planet for only four years. That's not
Speaker 12: long enough to get a true picture of the weather patterns.
Speaker 12: Maybe floods come at this time of year in cycles
Speaker 12: to coincide with sunspots.
Speaker 2: No, it's a quiet sun here, and what else could
Speaker 2: be The purpose of the towers.
Speaker 8: Just seems so incredible.
Speaker 3: Even with say seventy percent of the ice cap melted,
Speaker 3: what will be left of the planet's surface. A few
Speaker 3: mountain ranges with no soil would.
Speaker 4: Be unable to support life. Okay, so that's only a theory.
Speaker 3: But by this time tomorrow I should have the evidence
Speaker 3: that will prove it or disprove it.
Speaker 6: The water has risen two feet in the night Dove,
Speaker 6: with now less than a square mile of grass left
Speaker 6: for the grazing animals before we have to start using
Speaker 6: the fodder veils that George recovered.
Speaker 12: George, I've got a job for you. Grab all the
Speaker 12: lifting trees that you can strip them of their foliage
Speaker 12: and bail Let us follow. Any edible fruit and nuts
Speaker 12: you find shall be saved as well.
Speaker 8: Tardy will help him.
Speaker 14: Oh, thank you.
Speaker 8: Just the sort of work I'm designed for.
Speaker 5: Anything else you'd like me to do while I'm at it,
Speaker 5: paint the sky green, bury the odd elephant I find
Speaker 5: lying about.
Speaker 8: Yes, please George out.
Speaker 2: And much better than humans. Subscriptive human.
Speaker 3: There's the evidence the flood's definitely been caused by fresh water.
Speaker 3: The salinity of the water's decreased significantly over the past
Speaker 3: three days.
Speaker 8: So we fly to the southern polar continent and knock
Speaker 8: out some of those times.
Speaker 13: We don't have the fuel for a long atmospheric flight.
Speaker 13: We could get there, but we couldn't get back. You
Speaker 13: know what the environment's like there.
Speaker 2: At least we stand some chance of survival here. With
Speaker 2: the water now rising at seven feet a day, well,
Speaker 2: we've got two options. Either we sit tight in the
Speaker 2: hope that the water will stop rising.
Speaker 6: Is that lightly If the angels have gone this far,
Speaker 6: they're not going to stop now.
Speaker 2: Or we use the last of the shuttle's fuel.
Speaker 6: And move to the mountains where there's no soil and
Speaker 6: no snow at this time of the year.
Speaker 2: To provide us with drinking water. At least, we can
Speaker 2: use the shuttle's distillation plant.
Speaker 8: Here there is a third option. We're not going to
Speaker 8: surrender to the angels.
Speaker 12: Never, No, my love, that will never do. Has it
Speaker 12: occurred to anyone that this shuttle will float?
Speaker 14: What?
Speaker 12: As a spacecraft, it can be hermetically sealed, and its
Speaker 12: weight is low in proportion to its volume, so that
Speaker 12: its draft would be less than three feet.
Speaker 8: We'll work it out for yourselves. If you don't believe me,
Speaker 8: you do, I think you've got something.
Speaker 4: But it would be too buoyant.
Speaker 3: It would float like a balloon, and because the hull's circular,
Speaker 3: it would roll in a storm.
Speaker 12: Oh that's right, Sharna, it would probably roll right over.
Speaker 12: But not if there was about three hundred tons of
Speaker 12: ballast down below in the main frame.
Speaker 8: What sort of ballast animals?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 13: Remember, I thought you were being sensible. We don't need
Speaker 13: to use the animals. We can fill the freight bay
Speaker 13: with rocks, sand, anything, well.
Speaker 3: Anything that doesn't require food and fresh water.
Speaker 4: Really, Dove as much as I love the animals, please
Speaker 4: hear what he has to say.
Speaker 2: Well, we're listening, dove, we're listening.
Speaker 12: Most of the grazing animals can do something that we can't.
Speaker 12: They can convert the cellulose in vegetation into protein, and
Speaker 12: we need protein to survive. If survival means eating meat,
Speaker 12: then we'll eat meat. Also, we've discovered them to be
Speaker 12: a valuable source of raw material bone, furz fat, and
Speaker 12: so on. If this planet is going to be completely
Speaker 12: covered in water for a time, we owe it to
Speaker 12: ourselves and our children to save breeding pairs of as
Speaker 12: many different species as possible. We shouldn't allow the angels
Speaker 12: to destroy millions of years of evolution without a fight.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Darve, Shanna and I. How are you an apology?
Speaker 3: A load of the landing skins is dropped by another
Speaker 3: ten percent estimate that we'll be floating at any moment.
Speaker 3: It's horrible, isn't it? No more land visible anywhere?
Speaker 14: Oh? We moved just there.
Speaker 4: Hey, did I imagine that landing skid loading five percent?
Speaker 3: Landing skid load zero?
Speaker 2: Look at the top of that tree, it's changing its position. Oh,
Speaker 2: we've got plenty of food plenty of fresh water. We've
Speaker 2: done it. We've really done it. We've beaten the Guardian Angels.
Speaker 1: In Flood, Part two of Earth Search two by James Follett.
Speaker 1: Sean Arnold played Commander Tellson, Amanda Murray, Shana Hayden, Wood
Speaker 1: Dove and Catherine Hilbert.
Speaker 5: Estra.
Speaker 1: Angel one was played by Sonia Fraser and Angel two
Speaker 1: by Gordon Reed. Tidy was David Goodison and George Stephen Garlic.
Speaker 1: Earth Search two is directed by Glendermon