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though carried out by only a handful of machines.
The berserker digging machines, pressed into service as combat units, were
powerfully destructive, though comparatively slow in both movement and
computation. They were also highly resistant to the small arms fire directed
against them by
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Fred Saberhagen - Berserker's Star.html the citizens of Tomb
Town.
The main thrust of the berserker advance was directed against the power
stations and the recycling plants providing local humanity with food and
atmosphere. Their destruction would bring on accumulating disaster in a matter
of days. So far, volunteers armed with improvised
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Fred Saberhagen - Berserker's Star.html mines and rockets had succeeded in
keeping the enemy from those targets.
Almost all Space Force and Templar weapons on the ground had been
concentrated, like their people, in and around
Port City. The process of reinforcing the eastern settlements had begun, but
would take days to complete, with much of the movement restricted
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Fred Saberhagen - Berserker's Star.html to caravan speeds.
The most intrepid badlife among the citizens of
Tomb Town had gallantly gone out against the enemy with inferior weapons, and
were already dead. A few looters were playing hide-and-seek with death among
the mostly deserted and partially ruined buildings of the town.
So far the enemy had
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Fred Saberhagen - Berserker's Star.html found and uprooted all but one of the
eastern telegraph terminals.
When the last one went, all direct communication east of the caravanserai
would be effectively cut off.
The early reports sent west by the humans under attack had understandably
exaggerated the numbers of enemy
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Fred Saberhagen - Berserker's Star.html machines, and of the goodlife
auxiliaries, too.
People terrified by the berserkers' immediate presence, or just by rumors of
their approach, and running for shelter, at least those who had their wits
about them, would seek refuge in the deepest breakdown zone they could find.
Some realized that to survive for a matter of
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Fred Saberhagen - Berserker's Star.html days in breakdown, they would have to
bring with them substantial supplies of food and water. Others didn't have
that much sense.
People who had access to pedicabs, bicycles, tricycles, or similar vehicles,
used them to get out of town, and into breakdown sanctuary.
But there weren't enough vehicles available to accommodate the entire
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Fred Saberhagen - Berserker's Star.html population. A few were stolen, a few
more hijacked.
The flagship of
Commandant Rovaki's miniature fleet was a
Space Force craft very similar to General Pike's
Templar scout-ship. But
Pike's colleague and sometime rival was thinking along somewhat different
lines.
Rovaki was slow to join in the general radio
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Fred Saberhagen - Berserker's Star.html discussion. When he did, his comments
were terse, his questions suspicious. He was still ready to be convinced that
somehow Harry
Silver was at the bottom of the trouble.
As Pike kept getting garbled reports of events on the surface, he grumbled [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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Fred Saberhagen - Berserker's Star.html an old warrior might have expected,
though carried out by only a handful of machines.
The berserker digging machines, pressed into service as combat units, were
powerfully destructive, though comparatively slow in both movement and
computation. They were also highly resistant to the small arms fire directed
against them by
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Fred Saberhagen - Berserker's Star.html the citizens of Tomb
Town.
The main thrust of the berserker advance was directed against the power
stations and the recycling plants providing local humanity with food and
atmosphere. Their destruction would bring on accumulating disaster in a matter
of days. So far, volunteers armed with improvised
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er's%20Star%20(v1.0).html (1692 of 1869)3/12/2004 11:22:15 PM
Fred Saberhagen - Berserker's Star.html mines and rockets had succeeded in
keeping the enemy from those targets.
Almost all Space Force and Templar weapons on the ground had been
concentrated, like their people, in and around
Port City. The process of reinforcing the eastern settlements had begun, but
would take days to complete, with much of the movement restricted
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er's%20Star%20(v1.0).html (1693 of 1869)3/12/2004 11:22:15 PM
Fred Saberhagen - Berserker's Star.html to caravan speeds.
The most intrepid badlife among the citizens of
Tomb Town had gallantly gone out against the enemy with inferior weapons, and
were already dead. A few looters were playing hide-and-seek with death among
the mostly deserted and partially ruined buildings of the town.
So far the enemy had
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Fred Saberhagen - Berserker's Star.html found and uprooted all but one of the
eastern telegraph terminals.
When the last one went, all direct communication east of the caravanserai
would be effectively cut off.
The early reports sent west by the humans under attack had understandably
exaggerated the numbers of enemy
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er's%20Star%20(v1.0).html (1695 of 1869)3/12/2004 11:22:16 PM
Fred Saberhagen - Berserker's Star.html machines, and of the goodlife
auxiliaries, too.
People terrified by the berserkers' immediate presence, or just by rumors of
their approach, and running for shelter, at least those who had their wits
about them, would seek refuge in the deepest breakdown zone they could find.
Some realized that to survive for a matter of
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Fred Saberhagen - Berserker's Star.html days in breakdown, they would have to
bring with them substantial supplies of food and water. Others didn't have
that much sense.
People who had access to pedicabs, bicycles, tricycles, or similar vehicles,
used them to get out of town, and into breakdown sanctuary.
But there weren't enough vehicles available to accommodate the entire
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Fred Saberhagen - Berserker's Star.html population. A few were stolen, a few
more hijacked.
The flagship of
Commandant Rovaki's miniature fleet was a
Space Force craft very similar to General Pike's
Templar scout-ship. But
Pike's colleague and sometime rival was thinking along somewhat different
lines.
Rovaki was slow to join in the general radio
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er's%20Star%20(v1.0).html (1698 of 1869)3/12/2004 11:22:16 PM
Fred Saberhagen - Berserker's Star.html discussion. When he did, his comments
were terse, his questions suspicious. He was still ready to be convinced that
somehow Harry
Silver was at the bottom of the trouble.
As Pike kept getting garbled reports of events on the surface, he grumbled [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]