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to be the system's sixth planet. Exedore, who had already made great progress in deciphering the
Micronian language, had its name: Saturn.

"My lord, I suspect that the spacefold generators aboard Zor's ship may have been damaged
during the hyperspace jump from Earth to the outer planets. My belief is that the Micronians will
attempt to use the gravity of this planet to sling themselves toward their homeworld."

"Interesting," Breetai replied.

"Furthermore, they will probably activate ECM as they near the planetary rings. It may
become difficult for us to lock in on their course."

"It is certainly the logical choice, Exedore. And that is precisely what concerns me. They
have yet to demonstrate any knowledge of logic."

"Your decision, my lord?"

"They have more than an escape plan in mind. The firepower of the main gun has given them
confidence in their ability to engage us." Breetai stroked his chin as he watched the screen.
"I'll let them attempt their clever little plan, if only to gain a clearer understanding of their
tactics. I'm curious to see if they are in full possession of the power that ship holds."



Henry Gloval, formerly of the supercarriers Kenosha and Prometheus and now captain of the
super dimensional fortress, the SDF-1, was a practical man of few words and even fewer
expectations. When it came to asking himself how he had ended up in command of an alien spaceship,
1,500,000,000 kilometers from home base and carrying almost 60,000 civilians in its belly, he
refused to let the question surface more than twice a day.

And yet here was the planet Saturn filling the forward bays of the SDF-1's bridge, and
here was Henry Gloval in the command chair treating it like just one more Pacific current he'd
have to navigate. Well, not quite: No one he'd encountered during his long career as a naval


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officer had ever used an ocean current the way he planned to use Saturn's gravitational fields.

The SDF-1; spacefold generators, which two months ago had allowed the ship to travel
through hyperspace from Earth to Pluto in a matter of minutes, had vanished. Perhaps "allowed" was
the wrong word, since Gloval had had his sights on the moon at the time. But no matter-the
disappearance remained a mystery for Dr. Lang and his Robotechs to unravel; it had fallen on
Gloval's shoulders to figure a way back home without the generators.

Even by the year 2010 the book on interplanetary travel was far from complete; in fact,
Lang, Gloval, and a few others were still writing it. Each situation faced was a new one, each new
maneuver potentially the last. There had been any number of unmanned outer-planet probes, and of
course the Armor Series orbital stations and the lunar and Martian bases, but travel beyond the