The Antarctic Discovery (Novelette)
nothing on its origins or
destination, and if it had achieved its objective!”
    “ Have they found anything to indicate
it has intelligence or if there is anything aboard?”
    “ They discovered its forces
deliberately melted the ice and allowed the water to freeze over
it, and that it hid itself away, and it is believed something
deadly is buried away in its interior!”
     

Chapter 13
     
    The Renegades
     
    The Russian scientist fascinated him now and
he had to restrain himself from meeting with him again to try to
get more, and to question him further on unanswered queries, and
the opportunity finally arrived when another scientist was found
shot, and he swiftly checked out the body with the other soldiers
and found out that he had been chased by someone with a gun, who
had shot him in the middle of an empty lower corridor.
    Afterwards Weaver arrived at the Russian
scientist’s room and began questioning him about it.
    “ I never knew him!” he replied
firmly.
    “ But you know who is behind the
killing!”
    “ It is some of the soldiers that are at
the voyager spacecraft base!” he finally confessed.
    “ So the normal Russian soldiers are not
involved? Who is all in it?”
    “ The normal soldiers and scientists
just give them what they want! They kill them when they threaten to
give them away! The problem is they cannot get anything from the
voyager and it is stuck out there! It is eventually going to be
discovered and we are not allowed to just hide it away. We have to
watch it now for any activity, which may happen years later! We are
stuck here, and we are lucky to have been able to remain hidden
until now!”
    “ So they are trapped here?”
    “ Yes! And they will eventually find out
about it and they do not know what to do! Can we afford to allow it
to fall into the wrong hands! If it opens and the technology that
is in it gets taken ...!”
    “ So what has been happening? Can you
clarify what is basically happening, without any
details?”
    “ The soldiers are trying to stop it
getting heard about! There are also renegade soldiers with us here
that are killing scientists, who have other reasons for not wanting
the technology being taken from them! We believe that they intended
to profit from it! And many of the scientists are telling things
about it and do not want anything to do with them and their theft
of the technology of the voyager, which could easily fall into the
wrong hands! That basically is what I know!”
    “ But you said before that they had not
entered the voyager and that nothing had been
discovered?”
    Weaver gasped at thinking of the gun battle
that they had had with the renegade Russian soldiers when he had
arrived there, and what it had really been about! He wondered where
the hell the voyager was!
    He was stumped! Could they actually handle
all their soldiers, and would he be making a great error telling
Commander Craven and the intelligence agency of it at the
moment?
    They were a really bad problem! Going by what
the scientist had told him about them, and the actual number of
deaths and the fact that they were Russian soldiers things were at
a new level and they had to avoid doing anything stupid or without
thinking!
    In fact the ultimate answer they would
actually like was to have the whole voyager blown up!
    He now thought of the Russians soldiers as
split into two groups, with one half wanting to fight for it
remaining theirs and the others going by the rules and perhaps even
wanting to get rid of it. The thing could be a threat to the entire
world!
    He even wondered if a war could break out
over such an incident, and who was the headman behind the Russians,
which the Russian scientist entirely avoided saying, and he could
not get if he knew. If the incident got out they would have to
explain what the secret ice station was doing there, and with
atomic missiles!

Chapter 14
     
    The Blizzard
     
    The blizzard blasted out of the Antarctic
night with inconceivable fury that

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