Anne McCaffrey - Ship 7 - The Ship Errant

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THE SHIP ERRANT

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EBook Design Group digital back-up edition v1 HTML

December 7, 2002

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Contents
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PREFACE
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 11
CHAPTER 12
CHAPTER 13
CHAPTER 14
CHAPTER 15
CHAPTER 16
CHAPTER 17
CHAPTER 18
CHAPTER 19
CHAPTER 20
CHAPTER 21
POPULAR LIBRARY EDITION
Copyright © 1996 by Jody Lynn Nye
All rights reserved.
Cover illustration by Steven Hickman
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To Val and Rick with love

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PREFACE

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To: Dr. Sennet Maxwell-Corey

Inspector General

Central Worlds Administration

From: Commander Lavon Muller-Danes Alien Outreach Department

A transmission has been received by this office from RNJ-599, known locally as

Ozran, requesting transportation of representatives of its government to its homeworld.

I have before me your memo asking me to inform you if such an eventuality arose.

While the CK-963 brain/brawn team is, to say the least, unorthodox in its methods, it

is effective. Furthermore, they did discover the "globe-frogs," as they call the aliens,

and they speak the local language, which none of our other personnel do. Though the

CK-963 would not have been my personal choice to undertake this mission, I bow to

pressures from above that dictate we should not antagonize the Ozranians in any way,

lest that jeopardize future cooperation.

Furthermore, the Ozranians have particularly requested that the same scoutship team

convey them to their homeworld. Unfortunately, due to discovery of the Ryxi species

a few months later, and the press of budget and time considerations since then, the

Ozran file was placed at the bottom of Alien Outreach's agenda. As a result, no

secondary contact team had been dispatched to the colony world to make further

contact with the amphibioid population as was originally planned. The Ozranians

prefer to deal only with humans who are familiar to them, and insist on Carialle and

Keff.

I gave orders that the team be pulled from its current assignment. It was a routine

courier mission that did not specifically call for the talents of a brainship, and has been

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reassigned to another available crew:

In reply to your insistence that we immediately remove CK-963 from the Ozran return

mission I am taking the opportunity to acquaint you with the details of the original

mission. In view of the outstanding success of the first contact, it is AODs opinion

that there is no apparent need to take this action. While I have reviewed the

voluminous file you forwarded, there is no event among the forty-six incidents listed

that would warrant an immediate recall of the brain/ brawn team. If at some future

date you produce evidence of instability on a level as to interfere with the mission, we

will then follow your recommendation and replace the CK-963 with the group of

experts now being assembled for the follow-up mission to Ozran. Those specialists

should be on the station designated SSS-900-C within a month. I have simplified the

technical material so as to make it understandable by the members of your department.

AGO Mission CK-963 5458.89 OZ0001

Initial observation two years ago of indigenous life an planet RNJ-599 revealed that

there were two, possibly three, species of tool-using beings resident there. All three

groups were soft-skinned, bilaterally symmetrical upright bipeds. Two of them, very

humanoid in appearance, had skin colors in the beige to dark-brown range. One group

of these appeared more intelligent and advanced than the others. Their manipulative

extremities had five digits, arranged as a humans would be, with four fingers and an

opposable thumb. They used a sophisticated system of power manipulation that was

so advanced in its technology that it could be used to make the user fly, teleport solid

objects, or even change the weather. The second species of humanoid bipeds had only

four digits on each manipulative extremity, and had hairy pelts. These beings served

as the first group's trainable workforce. The Ozran "mages and magesses" (gender

specific reference) had an extremely complex social hierarchy, and used without

comprehension the scientific technology they possessed.

Because it was so easy to use by beings with a high level of telempathy, certain "mage

(sse)s" were able to access an amulets power more readily than others, hence the

stratification of society. Because it was easier to use the conductor units than to

accomplish a task by hand, over time the humans pushed the gigantic generator almost

to destruction. By the time Keff and Carialle landed, the system was disintegrating

dangerously, and Ozran society was in a downward spiral.

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The third species, observed only casually, was a race of much smaller bipeds with

skins in the green part of the spectrum. These lived a marginal existence in the meager

swamps and marshlands of the arid continents.

Further observation revealed that both of the larger species were of the same race, and

not native to Ozran. In fact, they were human beings. The four-fingered hands of the

workforce were not the result of mutation, but mutilation. These mages and magesses

mutilated the others to prevent the system being used by anyone not considered to

belong to the intellectual elite.

The servitors were kept tractable with the use of drugs by the five-fingered controllers.

Upon investigation, the humans proved to be a colony of the Central Worlds, who had

landed on Ozran ten centuries ago. Ancient records of the initial overfly of the planet

showed it to be a plum for settlers, with a fortunate climate, arable land and potable

water, nitrox-mix atmosphere, suitably balanced gravity, moons to produce tides, and

generally non-toxic plant life. Over time, they entirely lost contact with the

Colonization Department. These humans had not invented the power system, but

rather had inherited it from a race that had temporarily inhabited the planet. It was this

unknown race of aliens that had stolen the power system from its inventors. They

passed it on to the human settlers, then died out without telling them its source.

The contact team discovered that the creators of the fabulous power control system

turned out to be the small, green creatures (called by the scout team "globe-frogs"),

also found not to be native to Ozran. The humans had dismissed the globe-frogs as

mere swamp animals, failing to observe the signs of intelligence and civilization the

beings displayed. It took special intervention by the brainship team to restore the

technology to its inventors before the neglect of centuries caused a planetary

cataclysm. Access to the power conductor units was sharply restricted, although not

entirely removed from use by the mages and magesses. Before the team left they saw

the beginnings of an attempt to establish a system of government shared equally by

humans and globe-frogs.

This amphibioid species, while not indigenous to Ozran, is of unusual interest to many

sections of the Central Worlds government, not the least of which is this one. Such

interest centers mainly around this scientific breakthrough reported by the initial

contact team: the device which makes possible the remote manipulation of matter.

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Empirical observation suggests that those humans who use it have inbred a tendency

toward telempathy which is necessary to operate the system. Science Research seems

to think that it is possible to develop a variation of the power amulet that will allow

anyone to make use of the Ozranian generators. As a result, we are all anxious to

cooperate in any way the Ozrans require, to retain access to this important scientific

breakthrough. Other departments that have requested more information are Science

Research, Linguistics, and Economic Development.

The location of the Cridi (globe-frog) homeworld has been pinpointed as closely as

possible by Exploration's astronavigators. Assisted by Carialle, who also translated the

globe-frogs' extant charts, a program was designed to roll back celestial movement to

where the stars lay a thousand years ago, approximately the time the globe-frogs lost

touch with their homeworld. Two possibilities have emerged: two dwarf yellow stars

in binary combination. The CK-963 team is to try the nearer star first.

We have complied as promptly as possible with the amphibioids' request for the CK-

963 to escort them to their homeworld. Central Worlds Administration pictures the

globe-frogs as partners not only on the colony world of Ozran, but in the greater task

of exploring the universe at large. We regret that the preliminary diplomatic and fact-

finding mission to the globe-frogs' homeworld of Cridi also failed to materialize, but it

is now too late either for regrets or a hasty dispatch of seasoned ambassadors. We are

having to settle for Carialle and Keff going in cold.

I would like to assure you that both Carialle and Keff have been thoroughly briefed on

the importance of this assignment, and have been cautioned under penalty to keep the

contact on an absolutely professional level.

I again thank you for your interest in this department's function, and suggest that since

we have come to terms with the immutable situation you should do so as well. I feel it

is unwise to anticipate failure.

Sincerely,

Lavon Muller-Danes, Commander Alien Outreach

En Route to the Cridi System

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