Rating: Not rated
Tags: Science Fiction, Lang:en
Summary
The Captain peered into the eyepiece of
the telescope. He adjusted the focus quickly. "It was an atomic
fission we saw, all right," he said presently. He sighed and
pushed the eyepiece away. "Any of you who wants to look may do
so. But it's not a pretty sight." "Let me look," Tance the
archeologist said. He bent down to look, squinting. "Good
Lord!" He leaped violently back, knocking against Dorle, the
Chief Navigator. But when they got there, nothing moved or
stirred. Everything was silent, dead. Only the gun showed signs
of life... and the trespassers had wrecked that for all time.
The return journey to pick up the treasure would be a
cinch...