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Space Patrol - "The Galaxy Trade Association" (1954) · Old Time Sci-Fi Radio | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: A newly developed Star Drive spacecraft is headed from the
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  Speaker 1: solar system toward Vega, 26 light years away. That journey
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  Speaker 1: opens Space Patrol, Episode 96, The Galaxy Trade Association. First
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  Speaker 1: broadcast on ABC on July 31st, 1954. Commander Buzz Corey
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  Speaker 1: and Cadet Happy, played by Ed Kemmer and Lynn Osborne,
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  Speaker 1: take the craft on its test flight and encounter the
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  Speaker 1: Galaxy Trade Association, an interstellar commercial combine offering trade. As
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  Speaker 1: Corey and Happy investigate the organization, the safety of their
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  Speaker 1: ship and the location of the solar system are at stake.
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  Speaker 1: From a story by Lou Houston, with Bella Kovach also
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  Speaker 1: heard in the cast, here is the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Space patrol!
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  Speaker 3: I adventure in a wild vast reaches of space, missions
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  Speaker 3: of daring in the name of interplanetary justice.
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  Speaker 2: Travel into the.
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  Speaker 3: Future with Buzz Corey, commander-in-chief of the Space Patrol. Commander
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  Speaker 3: Corey and Cadet Happy are making a series of tests
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  Speaker 3: of the new.
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  Speaker 2: Star Drive spaceship.
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  Speaker 3: The Star Drive was designed by a space traveler from
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  Speaker 3: another planetary system, and its principles are.
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  Speaker 2: Not thoroughly understood. At present, only Buzz.
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  Speaker 4: And Happy can operate the amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Craft that puts the most distant stars within reach of
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  Speaker 3: explorers from the solar system.
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  Speaker 2: After they thoroughly.
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  Speaker 3: Master the Star Drive and the technique of astrogation through hyperspace.
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  Speaker 2: Commander Corey will train other.
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  Speaker 3: Space patrol pilots for expeditions into interstellar space. At this moment,
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  Speaker 3: Buzz and Happy are in Star Drive bound for Vega,
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  Speaker 3: a star 26 light years from the sun.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're coming out of Star Drive already. Wonder how
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  Speaker 2: long we'll black out this time.
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  Speaker 3: Well.
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  Speaker 3: That time I didn't black out completely.
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  Speaker 2: Just got a little dizzy.
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  Speaker 3: Evidently, we're getting used to the pull in and pull
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  Speaker 3: out of the star drive.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, come in here.
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  Speaker 4: That must be Vegas.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, that white hot light. Check the instruments, Hap. Let's
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  Speaker 3: get a reading. Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: The star is six million DUs distant, sir. And the
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  Speaker 2: radiation intensity scale reading is 9.1.
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  Speaker 3: That's exactly what Vegas should be at that distance.
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  Speaker 2: Smoke a rocket. Look at that.
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  Speaker 3: A spaceship off a starboard.
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  Speaker 2: It's either awfully close or it's a monster.
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  Speaker 3: Get a bioscope reading on it, Hap. The size, distance,
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  Speaker 3: and vector.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 3: And if you can, find out if they're carrying armament. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's right.
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  Speaker 2: We're in a strange solar system.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe these people don't like visitors.
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  Speaker 2: They're on a parallel vector, sir. And matching our velocity.
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  Speaker 4: Just looking us over.
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  Speaker 3: It's a big ship, all right. Five times the size
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  Speaker 3: of this one.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, look. They're flashing a light. Now watch closely.
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  Speaker 3: See if you can detect a pattern.
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  Speaker 2: Three flashes. Three flashes. Three flashes.
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  Speaker 3: And another three flashes.
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  Speaker 2: That must be a code of some kind.
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  Speaker 3: I'll send the flashes exactly as they did. Three groups
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  Speaker 3: of three.
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  Speaker 2: Three. Three. And three.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see what the next move is.
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  Speaker 2: Uh-oh. They're really signaling now. Flashes all over the place.
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  Speaker 3: They're closing in, huh?
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  Speaker 2: It would feel a lot easier if we had some
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  Speaker 2: space weapons. Right now, that ship is so close, we
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  Speaker 2: could blast it. Oh, what's wrong with our rockets? They've
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  Speaker 2: cut out.
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  Speaker 3: And our lights are dimming.
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  Speaker 2: Something must be wrong with the main power supply.
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  Speaker 3: The auxiliary should cut in automatically, Hap. That other ship
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  Speaker 3: is causing the trouble.
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  Speaker 2: Well, even if we had space torpedoes, we couldn't fire them.
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  Speaker 2: If only that's the idea, Hap.
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  Speaker 3: Those boys from Vega aren't taking any chances. Say, look now, sir.
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  Speaker 2: A hatch is sliding open. Something is being thrust out.
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  Speaker 2: It's a platform or a ramp of some kind. Something's moving.
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  Speaker 4: It's a man in a space suit.
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  Speaker 2: Walking out on the ramp with both arms held out.
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  Speaker 3: A universal gesture. Showing us he isn't armed.
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  Speaker 2: What's he doing out there?
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  Speaker 3: He said he wants to come aboard. You gonna let him?
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  Speaker 3: Right now, they're calling the plane's app.
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  Speaker 2: Press the outer hatch control.
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  Speaker 3: When a ship pulls closer, he can step into our airlock.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 3: He may be unarmed, but there's something hanging from the
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  Speaker 3: belt of his space suit.
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  Speaker 2: Some sort of a box.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe a space phone or a weapon. You'll find out
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  Speaker 3: very soon. Open the hatch.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to have company. The huge spaceship.
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  Speaker 3: Maneuvers alongside the Star Drive craft, and a moment later,
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  Speaker 3: a light flashing on the control panel tells Buzz and
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  Speaker 3: Happy that their visitor.
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  Speaker 2: Is in the airlock. Buzz presses a button, and the
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  Speaker 2: outer hatch closes.
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  Speaker 3: Then, at a nod from the commander, Happy opens the
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  Speaker 3: inner hatch. And in strides a figure in a spacesuit.
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  Speaker 2: Commander, what does he want? I think he wants us
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  Speaker 2: to talk. I seem sort of pleased about the whole
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  Speaker 2: thing anyway.
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  Speaker 3: If only that box is some sort of instrument that's
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  Speaker 3: picking up what we're saying.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he understands us.
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  Speaker 3: He's nodding his head. Let's identify ourselves, Pap, and use gestures.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe it'll help. I am Buzz Corey.
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  Speaker 2: I am Cadet Happy. Buzz, Cory, Cadet Happy.
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  Speaker 3: That's the idea.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. I think now we can dispense with justice.
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  Speaker 2: I am Erdo, Assistant Deputy Field Agent for the Galaxy
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  Speaker 2: Trade Association. Wow, we sure got on to our language fast.
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  Speaker 2: That is why I hold my high position with the association.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, this device here helps considerably. It is sensitive
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  Speaker 2: to brain waves and translates thought images into symbols of
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  Speaker 2: your language.
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  Speaker 3: Electronic translator. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I've made contacts with 20 different planetary systems in the galaxy.
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  Speaker 2: And neither the translator or I have failed yet. I
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  Speaker 2: suppose you want to know.
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  Speaker 3: Why we're in the Vegas system. Or do you already
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  Speaker 3: know that?
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  Speaker 2: I know that, like myself, you're on a peaceful mission.
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  Speaker 2: And you seem to be slightly lost. You're from another
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  Speaker 2: part of the galaxy, aren't you?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And you've never had any dealings with the Galaxy Trade Association?
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  Speaker 3: Never heard of it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's lucky we chanced to meet. I can let
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  Speaker 2: you in on a very profitable arrangement.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, just a minute.
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  Speaker 2: After we sighted you, our rocket power cut off and
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  Speaker 2: our lights dimmed. Oh, yes. It was a necessary precaution
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  Speaker 2: on our part. We couldn't identify you and you didn't
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  Speaker 2: know our code, so Crexar ordered the inhibitor beam to
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  Speaker 2: be focused on you. As you may have noticed, some
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  Speaker 2: of your controls have already been restored to use. Who
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  Speaker 2: is Crexar? The deputy field agent for the Galaxy Association.
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  Speaker 2: I'm his assistant. Crexar is captain of our ship, the Chaka.
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  Speaker 3: And you're from one of the planets in the Vega system?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no. We're from Chaka, a star a hundred light
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  Speaker 2: years from here. Vega has five planets, and they're all
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  Speaker 2: members of the association. There's no reason why your solar
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  Speaker 2: system shouldn't join up, too. Just come aboard the Chaka,
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  Speaker 2: and Crexar will throw out the contract.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, not so fast, or do in the first place.
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  Speaker 3: What's the purpose of the association?
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  Speaker 2: Why, to promote interstellar trade. Exchange of commodities, food, raw materials,
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  Speaker 2: and industrial products. All your planets do is follow the quota.
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  Speaker 2: We deliver materials from other planets and pick up the
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  Speaker 2: goods for export. Sounds fine, except for one thing.
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  Speaker 3: Who determines the quota?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's worked out on an efficient basis.
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  Speaker 3: By the numbers?
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  Speaker 2: Or just by chocker? Corley, listen. If you tell Crexor
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  Speaker 2: where to find your solar system by after the deal
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  Speaker 2: is set up, you'll get a share of the profits.
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  Speaker 3: Get off this ship before I throw you off and
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  Speaker 3: tell Krexler to take his association and ram it into
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  Speaker 3: the hottest star in the galaxy.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't tell that to Krexler. You dare to defy
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  Speaker 2: the association?
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  Speaker 3: You bet I do.
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  Speaker 2: If only my planet had been courageous enough to defy them.
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  Speaker 2: The association has made America a slave planet. Yeah? Then
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  Speaker 2: why do you work for that outfit and try to
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  Speaker 2: get others to join? I had to. Chaka controls everything.
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  Speaker 2: We'll either work for the association or starve. Hey, Commander,
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  Speaker 2: Krexer's blinking up a storm.
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  Speaker 3: What am I going to do?
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  Speaker 2: I can't go back now after what I've told you.
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  Speaker 2: How about that inhibitor beam?
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  Speaker 3: Is it still on?
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  Speaker 2: No. No, and he figured it was safe. Krexer would
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  Speaker 2: cut it off, save power.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to blast away from here. What's the range
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  Speaker 3: of that beam?
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  Speaker 2: If you pull away fast, you can take Krexer off guard.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, happy fire, Rocket.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Got to have a destination to get into Star Drive.
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  Speaker 3: Where's this home planet of yours, this America?
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  Speaker 2: It's in the Radnitz solar system. Fifteen light years from Baker.
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  Speaker 3: In what direction? Come on, take a look through the
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  Speaker 3: nose port. Can you point it out?
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  Speaker 2: Let me see.
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  Speaker 3: That's Antares.
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  Speaker 2: Tractor's gaining. There's Radnitz, just under Antares. About ten degrees right.
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  Speaker 3: We're having time for a fine adjustment at the hyperspace computer.
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  Speaker 2: Fifteen light years, Erdo? Yes, Corey.
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  Speaker 3: We're going into Star Drive. The sudden switch in the
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  Speaker 3: star drive from comparatively low velocity blacks out Buzz and
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  Speaker 3: Happy completely. When they regain their senses, the light of
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  Speaker 3: a yellow sun is blazing.
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  Speaker 2: In through the nose port.
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  Speaker 3: As they check their instruments.
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  Speaker 4: Urdu calls out excitedly.
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  Speaker 2: It's Radcliffe. We made it.
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  Speaker 3: We made it. Okay, now which one of these planets
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  Speaker 3: is Amirka? That one.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Urdu.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing else to do with you but drop you off
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  Speaker 3: on Amirka. That will be our way from the city.
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  Speaker 2: Excellent time. You can land at my brother's farm. You
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  Speaker 2: won't be molested. We have no spaceship since Charky imposed
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  Speaker 2: its quota on our planet. But one more thing, R2.
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  Speaker 3: We didn't have time to calculate the hyperspace vectors accurately. Plus,
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  Speaker 3: this is an uncharted section of the galaxy. Unless we
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  Speaker 3: can feed accurate data into our star drive computer, we're lost.
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  Speaker 2: I can give you some astrogation charts after we land.
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  Speaker 2: My father wanted to be a space pilot until the
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  Speaker 2: association forced him into operating a farm. And this is
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  Speaker 2: the kind of an outfit you tried to get us
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  Speaker 2: to join? I... I had no choice, can't you understand?
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  Speaker 4: Never mind that, Urdu.
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  Speaker 3: Help me get this ship into America.
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  Speaker 4: Following Urdu's instructions, the commander lands the spaceship on a
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  Speaker 4: plowed field near a crude farmhouse several miles from the
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  Speaker 4: nearest city of.
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  Speaker 2: The planet America.
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  Speaker 3: Boss and Happy are waiting in the ship for Erdo
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  Speaker 3: to return with the promised astrogation charts looking through the
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  Speaker 3: open hatch toward the ramshackle building.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, there's Erdo. He's motioning to us. What's the matter?
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  Speaker 3: Can he find those charts?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, come on, App.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see what he wants. What's the trouble, Erdo?
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  Speaker 2: Where are the charts? There's been a slight change in plans, Corey.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, there has.
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  Speaker 2: For you, maybe, but not for us. Don't make a move,
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  Speaker 2: either of you. This is quite a powerful weapon.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, what's the big idea of pulling a gun on us?
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  Speaker 3: Of all the ungrateful.
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  Speaker 2: Gratitude is a luxury I can't afford. Not till I
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  Speaker 2: am free from the power of Chaka. Not till the
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  Speaker 2: people of America drive out the Association.
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  Speaker 3: What's that got to do with us?
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  Speaker 2: We can use your ship and your knowledge.
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  Speaker 3: Don't move.
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  Speaker 2: I'll show you what this gun can do. See that
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  Speaker 2: tree over there? Watch what happens.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: If it can do that to a tree, think what
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  Speaker 2: it could do to a man. Now, both of you,
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  Speaker 2: inside the house. Make one false move and you're finished.
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  Speaker 3: While Buzz and Happy were exploring space near the star Vega,
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  Speaker 3: their star drive ship was halted by a strange craft.
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  Speaker 4: They were boarded by a man.
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  Speaker 3: Named Erdo, who told them of an interstellar organization called
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  Speaker 3: the Galaxy Trade Association, and urged the commander to bring
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  Speaker 3: the United Planets into the agreement. When Buzz refused to
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  Speaker 3: consider the proposition, Erdo broke down and admitted that the
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  Speaker 3: commander's suspicions were correct, that the association was a ruthless combine,
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  Speaker 3: bent upon enslaving the inhabitants of all planets.
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  Speaker 2: In the galaxy.
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  Speaker 3: Blasting away from the other ship, Buzz and Happy returned
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  Speaker 3: Erdo to his home planet, America, in.
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  Speaker 4: The Radmos star system.
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  Speaker 3: After tricking them into leaving their ship, Erdo produced a
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  Speaker 3: powerful weapon and forced the space patrollers to a farmhouse.
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  Speaker 4: Where they're being held at gunpoint.
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  Speaker 2: Now look, Erdo, face facts for a minute. How do
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  Speaker 2: you expect to drive off the Charka outfit with one spaceship?
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  Speaker 2: With one spaceship, we can capture another. Then with two,
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  Speaker 2: we can capture two more.
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  Speaker 3: With four, our ship isn't armed.
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  Speaker 2: I know. But the factory's here on America. Manufacture armaments
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  Speaker 2: for the Charka ships.
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  Speaker 3: Great. With the Association keeping close tab on your production,
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  Speaker 3: how are you going to get the weapons out of
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  Speaker 3: the factories?
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  Speaker 2: The Association's spies can't watch all of us all the time.
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  Speaker 2: Bit by bit, piece by piece, we can smuggle parts
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  Speaker 2: out of the plant. A while ago, you told us
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  Speaker 2: that the people of America have no spaceships of their own.
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  Speaker 2: The minute a Charka cruiser sees our ship, they're going
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  Speaker 2: to ask questions. My brother will know what to do.
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  Speaker 2: For years he has been waiting and hoping for such
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: While you've been helping the Charka gang rope in more victims,
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  Speaker 3: more slaves?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and learning how the Charkans operate. Now I can
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  Speaker 2: turn that knowledge against our oppressors. Hey, what's that noise?
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  Speaker 2: It's my brother. His truck is coming down the road.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Erdo, but here's where we leave you. Let
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  Speaker 2: go of that gun! Hey, that was fast work there.
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  Speaker 2: Run for the ship, quick. Here comes the truck, sir.
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  Speaker 2: But it's stopping. Urdu's brother probably thinks we're from Charka.
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  Speaker 2: He won't try to stop us. Stop them, Barbara. Stop them.
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  Speaker 3: Commander, it's Urdu. Got his gun, but his brother may
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  Speaker 3: have one.
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  Speaker 2: Up the ladder, Hap.
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  Speaker 3: I doubt that they damaged the ship to stop us,
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  Speaker 3: even if they've got another weapon.
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  Speaker 2: It won't take any chances. Close port. Yes, sir. Port's closed, sir.
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: Fire rockets.
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  Speaker 2: Up, ship, and away. Well, we're clear of America, Commander.
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  Speaker 2: But we didn't get our astrogation chart.
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  Speaker 3: Rather than take the time to orient ourselves to this
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  Speaker 3: part of the galaxy, we'll return to Vega. It'll be
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  Speaker 3: easy to reset the star guide vector for the solar
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  Speaker 3: system from there.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir. Isn't that Vega, the bright star over there?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Hap, that's it. Watch the vector computer. As soon
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: as we reach a safe velocity, we'll go in the
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: star drive. A few moments later, Buzz cuts in the
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  Speaker 3: star drive. Then comes the now familiar silent journey through
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: the black nothingness of hyperspace and the return to conventional
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: rocket drive. Right now, in the region of the star Vega,
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  Speaker 3: Buzz and Happy focus instruments on.
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  Speaker 4: Three distant stars.
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  Speaker 3: The data is fed into the computer, which plots the
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  Speaker 3: complex hyperspace vector for their return to the solar system
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  Speaker 3: 26 light years away.
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  Speaker 1: All set, Hap?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Here we go back into the star drive. And when
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  Speaker 3: we get back home, we can mark Vega down in
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  Speaker 3: the charts as a place to avoid from now on.
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  Speaker 2: Uh-oh, what's the matter? Star drive won't take hold. The
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  Speaker 2: lights are dimming. Smoke and rockets, Commander, we're sunk. It's
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: that ship again.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Caught us with the inhibitor beam.
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  Speaker 2: All the rotten luck.
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  Speaker 3: We had to pop out of hyperspace right near Krexler's ship.
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  Speaker 3: Probably after Erdo. Yeah, he's either got to let us
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: alone or blast us apart.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I think sure he can't get aboard unless... Commander,
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  Speaker 2: I feel drowsy.
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  Speaker 3: Something's wrong.
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  Speaker 2: There, in the ship. Everything's getting blurred. That's quick.
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  Speaker 3: We've got to... Lock the hatch controls.
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  Speaker 2: I'll get it, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Silently, the Star Drive ship hurtles through space in free
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  Speaker 3: fall near Vega as a huge spacecraft draws closer. When
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: Buzz and Happy regain consciousness, they look up to see
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  Speaker 3: a figure in a spacesuit standing over them. Fastened to
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: his belt is a small black box. As the commander
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: gets to his feet, the man in the space suit
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  Speaker 3: raises a weapon.
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  Speaker 2: You will regret any rash move. Stay where you are.
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  Speaker 3: Who are you, another salesman for the Galaxy Association?
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: I am Cracksewer, deputy field agent. What happened?
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  Speaker 3: Who.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: Uh-oh. You will be all right in a moment. You
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: were both overcome by mildly poisoned air. Poisoned air? How
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: did it get in the ship? I focused a beam
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: of certain cosmic rays on your hull. They penetrated the
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: hull and ionized the air molecules. The effect is only temporary.
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  Speaker 2: Why don't you completely clear the atmosphere by getting out
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: of here? Come now. This is no way to talk
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  Speaker 2: to your future business associate. We've talked to your assistant.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: We're not interested in your type of business, Quicksilver.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, where is Urdu? I know he's not
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: aboard your ship. I looked. Where is he? He resigned
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: from the Association. No one resigned from the Galaxy Association. Oh,
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: I assume he persuaded you to take him back to
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: that wretched planet of his. What a fool he is.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: And he had such a fine future with the Association.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: But enough of Verdu. What part of the galaxy are
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: you from? From the free part.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: And it's going to stay that way.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: It will be to your personal advantage to help me
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: locate your solar system. It will also benefit your planet
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: to join the Association.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: We've already seen some of the benefits, Krexler.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: No thanks. Aboard my ship, the Charka, I have some
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: very persuasive arguments. I assume you have spacesuits aboard. You
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: had better get into them. You will find it most
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: uncomfortable without them when I open the airlock.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Krexler.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: We'll come aboard.
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  Speaker 3: But you won't make us talk.
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  Speaker 2: We shall see. Get your spacesuits, quickly.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: With Krexler holding his weapon ready, Buzz and Happy don
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: spacesuits and walk across the ramp into the charter. Krexler
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: forces them down a corridor and into a compartment filled
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: with instruments and equipment of strange design. Krexler gestures that
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: they're to raise their helmet-faced pieces. This is a good-sized ship, Krexler.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: How many men do you have aboard?
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: That is information divorced only to association members. There are
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: more than enough, however, to handle you two in the
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: event you try to escape.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: This equipment, does it work?
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: Or is it just to impress your clients?
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: It all has a use. The device there, for example,
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: will enable me to learn the location of your solar system.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Once the electrodes are placed on your head, any knowledge
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: you possess will appear upon the screen.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: Well, it's like our brain. Correct, sir.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Just how gullible do you think we are? Why, you've
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: already seen our translator. If it hadn't been able to
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: detect your brain waves, we wouldn't be communicating now. This
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: device is more powerful. It penetrates into the unconscious.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: Nonsense.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Nonsense, is it? All right, then. If you think this
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: machine is a fraud, you might as well prove it
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: by letting me test it on you.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: Oh, it'll work all right, but not the way you
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: say it will. It's some torture device.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Torture device? Of course.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: When you attach those electrodes to us, you'll turn on
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: a current and keep increasing it until we either talk
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: or pass out.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: So you think the device is a torture machine, do you?
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: Yes, and you can't prove it isn't.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Not to my satisfaction. I can prove it. That is,
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: if you're not a complete idiot. Suppose I attach the
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: electrodes to my own head and let you turn around.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: on any controls you want. Will that convince you?
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: You mean we can adjust the controls?
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes. Now, I got the electrodes pressed to my temples.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Go to work.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: Personally, I think you're bluffing, but we'll see. Uh, how
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: do you turn it on?
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Just pull down that red lever on the far left
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: of the panel. There.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: Feel anything?
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Of course not. Now go on, make your test. The
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: machine is foolproof, fortunately. I'll hold him half. You watch
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: the brainograph screen. All right. Let go. Okay, Krexler. What
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: do we do to keep your men out of the
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: corridor and away from the airlock? You fool. Do you
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: think I'd tell you that?
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: No, but you're thinking it. It's on the screen.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Commander, there's an image of one of the panels here,
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: and a button is pressed four times. Which button? Think
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: of it, Krexler.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: No, I won't.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: I've got it, sir.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: I know which one it is.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: What happens if that button's pressed four times, Cracker?
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: What do you see happen?
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: He's trying to cloud the screen with other thoughts, but
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: I see a whole bunch of men lining up in formation.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: It's a great big compartment. Must be a midship somewhere. Good.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: Probably general inspection. Press that button, Cap, four times. That'll
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: pull the men away from the escape hatch in the
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: outer corridor.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir. Don't press that button! Relax, Cracker. There's an
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: alarm sounding, sir, all over the ship. All right, Cracker.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: While the crew lines up for inspection, I've got one
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: more question. If you were our prisoner aboard this ship
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: and you wanted to escape.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: What would you do? Just on the screen, Happy. An
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: image of Cracker knocking us out and running out this door,
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: down an empty compartment to the hatch.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Across the ramp, and into our ship.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: Thanks, Cracker.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: I'm finally convinced your device does read subconscious thoughts after all.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: Now, your suggestion for escape seems a little rough, but
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: after all, it was your own idea.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Yes. Wow, Commander, you should have seen the stars on
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: that brainograph screen when you socked Krexer.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: Come on, Hap.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: I'll take Krexer's gun just in case. Let's hope that
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: corridor's empty.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: No one's in the corridor, sir. It's clear all the
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: way down to the hatch.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: I guess everybody's lining up for inspection. Nothing like a
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: well-disciplined ship.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: Secure your helmet, Hap. Try to open the hatch. Boarding
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: their ship, Buzz and Happy quickly blast off, anxiously watching
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: the diminishing image of Krexor's.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: Craft in their rear viewscope.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: As their acceleration increases, Buzz idly monitors the space of
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: one receiver.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: It doesn't look as though they're coming after us yet, sir.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: I guess Krexor's still out cold.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: They'll be spayed that way until we're into star drive.
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: We're pretty nearly up to velocity now, sir.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Say, what do you expect to pick up on the
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: space opponents?
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: We're checking to see what frequency they use. Naturally, we
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: couldn't understand.
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: Galaxy Trade Association field ship chartered to headquarters. Field deputy
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: Craxor here with 1201 report.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Craxor?
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: But how come he's space opponent in English? Strange. Wait.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: What's that lying on the desk at your feet? A
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: transmitter box.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: In the excitement, I must have grabbed a few.
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: Usually, drills have been conducted as per schedule, including extra
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: general inspection on deck five of the ship, True deportment
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: and morale excellent.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Why that big fake?
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: In reference to message 0562 broadcast earlier concerning the spaceship
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: from an unknown origin, I have now completed interrogation of
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: its occupants and have ordered them to depart.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Is he talking about us?
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: In my expert opinion, further contact with that solar system
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: would not be to the best of interest of the
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: Galaxy Trade Association. Deputy Field Agent Krexler out.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Well, I'd imagine they don't want to trade with us.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Well, I don't see why not.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Didn't we prove that we could give them the business?
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: Stand by for star drive. Join us again next week
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: for another thrilling adventure with Space Patrol. High adventure in
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: the wild, vast reaches of space. Missions of daring in
• 24:01
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• 24:06
  Speaker 3: Buzz Corley, Commander-in-Chief of the Space Patrol.
• 24:13
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• 24:15
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• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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• 25:45
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