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machines and the mountains they had built. "How did you know where to dig?"

"The power plant was still running," Uncle Pen said. "Keeping the computer alive. I was able to detect its metal shielding and then
its radiation."

"We thank you." Pepe came gravely to shake his hand. "IтАЩm glad to be alive."

"So am I," Casey said. "If I can get to Earth." He saw Uncle Pen beginning to shake his head, and went on quickly, "Tell us what

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you know about the Earth impacts and how we came down to terraform the Earth and terraform it again when it was killed again."

"I donтАЩt know what you did."

"You have showed us the difference we made," Casey said. "The land is all green now, with no deserts or ice."

"Certainly it has been transformed." Nodding, Uncle Pen stopped to smile at Tanya as she left her game with the sun on his back
and came to sit crosslegged at his feet. "Whatever you did was ages ago. Our historians are convinced that weтАЩve done more
ourselves."

"You changed the Earth?" Casey was disappointed and a little doubtful. "How?"

"We removed undersea ledges and widened straits to reroute the ocean circulation and warm the poles. We diverted rivers to fill
new lakes and bring rain to deserts. We engineered new life-forms that improved the whole biocosm."

"But still you owe us something. We put you there."

"Of course." Uncle Pen shrugged. "Excavating the station, I uncovered evidence that the last impact annihilated life on Earth. The
planet had been reseeded sometime before the lunar impact occurred."

"We did it." Casey grinned. "YouтАЩre lucky we were here."

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"Your ship?" Pepe had gone to stand at the edge of the dome, looking down at the monster machines and Uncle PenтАЩs neat little
flyer, so different from the rocket spaceplanes we had seen in the old video holos. "Can it go to other planets?"

"It can." He nodded. "The planets of other suns."

TanyaтАЩs eyes went wide, and Pepe asked, "How does it fly in space with no rocket engines?"

"It doesnтАЩt," he said. "ItтАЩs called a slider. It slides around space, not through it."

"To the stars?" Tanya whispered. "YouтАЩve been to other stars?"

"To the planets of other stars." He nodded gravely. "I hope to go again when my work here is finished."

"Across the light-years?" Casey was awed. "How long does it take?"