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monitor. For a computer! And computer meant disk memory. Frantically he searched for a disk.
On a nearby desk, Rockson found a broken-open strong box marked SECRET.
The disks were in Killov’s possession.
He despaired, again, until he saw a rusting metal door—leading to a cellar? He broke it open and, flashlight in hand, went down several twisting steps. Rats hastened away; a snake slithered into a recess. Rock was undeterred. His boots were tough and his mutant skin more impervious to such things as rat and snake bites.
He entered a low-ceilinged dank cellar. Gingerly, he opened the dank, crumbling file cabinets, looking for a duplicate hard copy of the missing disks.
He found a plastic-sheathed copy of a report labelled “President’s Eye’s Only,” and snatched it up. He broke an ancient seal and saw the heading ULTRA TOP SECRET. PROJECT ZILCH. Was that the name of the installation—or the weapon?
As he sat on a rock outside the building, reading each plastic-sealed page, Rockson felt like he was prying into a forbidden part of history. He’d often had that queasy feeling when some new and precious document relating to the final war was in his hands. More than a superb fighter for America, he had become an avid historian—especially since his trip back along an alternate time path.
The crystal, he learned, was part of a larger plan called S.D.I.
S.D.I. involved, it seemed from his reading, ground- and sky-based weapons for focusing the gathered energy of geothermal power and then using it on an enemy. The ZILCH crystal was such a gatherer and focuser of power. It was to beam its power to a space-deployed mirror called SATMOS-5. The space mirror hovered over the Pacific at 23,500 miles high. The weapon could zap anyplace on earth with the power of a hundred nuke bombs!
He put down the document halfway through. Would the mirror satellite still work? Yes. There is no decay in space!
Rockson read on.
There were codes in the book for moving the mirror satellite into position, but that page was partly eaten away by the years. Damn! If only Killov’s stolen computer disk had such a flaw in it!
But it didn’t. Killov wouldn’t have bothered to load the giant crystal weapon on a ship and lug it away if he didn’t have the activation codes. The crystal had to be found and destroyed, or awesome destruction would be unleashed—destruction that would make Killov the dictator of the world!
Rockson read on with morbid fascination. The engineering and in-orbit deployment of the folded metal mirror was accomplished by secret flights of the space shuttles Discover and Reliant in the 1980s—under cover that the satellite deployed was a spy camera satellite.
The difficult work of creating the crystal—the most powerful neuro computer diode ever brought into existence, a trillion trillion memory bits—was detailed. He learned that the crystal weapon carried, stored and amplifed energy through each of its complex molecules. This cybernetic-energy breakthrough was accomplished by a team of ten thousand U.S. scientists isolated here on Rarapani for five years, under tighter secrecy than that of the Manhattan Project.
Rock was aware that most of the world was starving back in 1989, and yet the immense technical feat was undertaken. Imagine, he thought, if all that ingenuity had been spent on solving the world’s political, economic and social problems back then.
A nuclear war could have been avoided.
Mankind could have reached for the stars—instead of Star Wars.
He quickly flipped through the rest of the 230 pages, found there was a personal letter dated July 8, 1989, marked ULTRA SECRET EYES ONLY, Senator Harkings, from Captain R.C. Tempos, Commander, Project 43.
Rockson read:
The ZILCH crystal is an utterly new weapons technology: the US. is way ahead of the Soviets on this one! They haven’t even, as far as we know, conceived of such a device.
HOW IT WORKS: To put it in layman’s terms, the ZILCH builds
On a nearby desk, Rockson found a broken-open strong box marked SECRET.
The disks were in Killov’s possession.
He despaired, again, until he saw a rusting metal door—leading to a cellar? He broke it open and, flashlight in hand, went down several twisting steps. Rats hastened away; a snake slithered into a recess. Rock was undeterred. His boots were tough and his mutant skin more impervious to such things as rat and snake bites.
He entered a low-ceilinged dank cellar. Gingerly, he opened the dank, crumbling file cabinets, looking for a duplicate hard copy of the missing disks.
He found a plastic-sheathed copy of a report labelled “President’s Eye’s Only,” and snatched it up. He broke an ancient seal and saw the heading ULTRA TOP SECRET. PROJECT ZILCH. Was that the name of the installation—or the weapon?
As he sat on a rock outside the building, reading each plastic-sealed page, Rockson felt like he was prying into a forbidden part of history. He’d often had that queasy feeling when some new and precious document relating to the final war was in his hands. More than a superb fighter for America, he had become an avid historian—especially since his trip back along an alternate time path.
The crystal, he learned, was part of a larger plan called S.D.I.
S.D.I. involved, it seemed from his reading, ground- and sky-based weapons for focusing the gathered energy of geothermal power and then using it on an enemy. The ZILCH crystal was such a gatherer and focuser of power. It was to beam its power to a space-deployed mirror called SATMOS-5. The space mirror hovered over the Pacific at 23,500 miles high. The weapon could zap anyplace on earth with the power of a hundred nuke bombs!
He put down the document halfway through. Would the mirror satellite still work? Yes. There is no decay in space!
Rockson read on.
There were codes in the book for moving the mirror satellite into position, but that page was partly eaten away by the years. Damn! If only Killov’s stolen computer disk had such a flaw in it!
But it didn’t. Killov wouldn’t have bothered to load the giant crystal weapon on a ship and lug it away if he didn’t have the activation codes. The crystal had to be found and destroyed, or awesome destruction would be unleashed—destruction that would make Killov the dictator of the world!
Rockson read on with morbid fascination. The engineering and in-orbit deployment of the folded metal mirror was accomplished by secret flights of the space shuttles Discover and Reliant in the 1980s—under cover that the satellite deployed was a spy camera satellite.
The difficult work of creating the crystal—the most powerful neuro computer diode ever brought into existence, a trillion trillion memory bits—was detailed. He learned that the crystal weapon carried, stored and amplifed energy through each of its complex molecules. This cybernetic-energy breakthrough was accomplished by a team of ten thousand U.S. scientists isolated here on Rarapani for five years, under tighter secrecy than that of the Manhattan Project.
Rock was aware that most of the world was starving back in 1989, and yet the immense technical feat was undertaken. Imagine, he thought, if all that ingenuity had been spent on solving the world’s political, economic and social problems back then.
A nuclear war could have been avoided.
Mankind could have reached for the stars—instead of Star Wars.
He quickly flipped through the rest of the 230 pages, found there was a personal letter dated July 8, 1989, marked ULTRA SECRET EYES ONLY, Senator Harkings, from Captain R.C. Tempos, Commander, Project 43.
Rockson read:
The ZILCH crystal is an utterly new weapons technology: the US. is way ahead of the Soviets on this one! They haven’t even, as far as we know, conceived of such a device.
HOW IT WORKS: To put it in layman’s terms, the ZILCH builds
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