September 3, 2024 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Adventures in Time and Space transcribed in future tense. In
the beginning, there was Jordan thinking his lonely thoughts. Out
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of the loneeness came a longing. Out of the longing
came a vision. Out of the dream came a planning,
And out of the planning came decision. Jordan's hand was
lifted and the ship was born.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
You look out, Are you all right?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
It missed me.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
What was it?
Speaker 4 (00:51):
A mutant with a slingshot? I think a dashed down
that passageway.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
You want to go after it.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
We never catch it, Alan, It's probably twelve decks above
us by now.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
I didn't think they ever came down this. Patrols usually
get them before they reach this level.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Ah, they get more daring with each generation. This one
looked like a female.
Speaker 6 (01:06):
Male or female. It might have killed us.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
I told you this trip was pure foolishness, climbing twenty
four decked levels to hear a crazy old man rave.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
We're almost there in a compartment X fifteen, level twenty four.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
This is the place.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
This area smells as if it hadn't been visited by
a sanitation crew for generations.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Part of the ship is almost deserted. Yes, this is
the compartment of John the Witness.
Speaker 7 (01:39):
Who are you?
Speaker 4 (01:40):
My name is Hugh Hoylan. I'm a cadet from the
Scientist Barrack. This is my friend Alan Mahoney.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
What do you want of John the Witness?
Speaker 6 (01:46):
Only to talk?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Are you a believer in Jordan's Naturally?
Speaker 5 (01:50):
I have heard that there are those among the younger
scientists who doubt the word of Jordan's.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
To doubt it's death. We're not heretics, and I have
brought a gift of tobacco grown on the richest level.
It smells good, I assure you it's the best.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Wait here, what a ratsnessh what the devil do you
think he can tell you?
Speaker 4 (02:23):
I don't know now, Hush, Well, you are John the Witness.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
I have good eating to you.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
I am Hugh Hoyland. This is my friend Alan Mahoney.
Speaker 8 (02:38):
And what rings a gentleman of the Scientist's glass to
my humble department.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
I have heard that you and your parents before you
have long been keepers of the legend of the ship.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
Since Jordan gave the word.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
I am anxious to hear the word as Jordan spoke it.
Why you see among the young scientists. There have been
some who talk against.
Speaker 8 (02:59):
The regulations against such hereships.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Some of them say the ship has no purpose. They say,
they say that we're here accidentally, that we have no
more grace in Jordan's eyes than the most deformed mutant
who dwells in the highest level of the ship.
Speaker 8 (03:16):
What shall I say to you?
Speaker 6 (03:20):
I wish to.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Hear the word from the mouth of one who knows
that I may become more convinced. You have gift for
the witness, the finest tobacco good.
Speaker 8 (03:33):
I will dim the light. Now pay close attention for
these other words, as my father's father's father gave them
to his son's son's son. This is how the ship
came into being, how our people were created. In the beginning,
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there was only Jordan's thinking, his lonely thoughts.
Speaker 9 (04:05):
In the beginning, there was darkness, formless and dead. Out
of the loneliness came a longing. Out of the longing
came a vision. Out of the dream came a planning,
And out of the planning came decision. Jordan's hand was
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lifted and the ship was born. Mile after mile.
Speaker 10 (04:34):
Of good compartments, tank after tank for golden corn, ladder
and passage, door and locker fit.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
For the needs of the yet unborn.
Speaker 10 (04:48):
He looked on his work and found it pleasing meet
for a race that was yet to be. He thought
of man, and man came into being God, and churches
not and search for the keys. Men untamed would shame
his maker. Men unruled would spoil the plan. So Jordan
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made the regulations, some to speak and some to listen.
Order came to the ranks of men. Crew he created
to work. Attestationis scientists to guidet the plan. Over them
all he created captain, made him judge of the race
of men. Thus it was in the golden age. These
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are the true words, as my father's father taught them.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
But what are the strange beast like people on the
upper levels of the ship. Surely Jordan did not create them.
Speaker 10 (05:57):
Jordan is perfect. All below him perfection. You have heard
of the legend of Houff.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
I have heard that he mutinied against Jordan.
Speaker 10 (06:05):
Darkness swallowed the ways of virtue. Sin prevailed upon the ship,
and before wisdom prevailed in the bodies of Huff and
his followers were fed into the converter. Some of the
rebels escaped and lived to father the mutants. They are
tainted with the sins of their fathers.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
One more question, witness speak, What is the ship?
Speaker 10 (06:29):
The ship is a great sphere twenty five kilometers wide
and one hundred levels deep.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
I know that, but what about the upper levels?
Speaker 10 (06:42):
The regulations forbid us to venture into the upper levels.
But it is said that beyond the levels of the
mutants lies the forbidden place where Jordan's spirit prevails.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
So I've heard.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
But something troubles me, something which prompted my coming.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
Here is my son.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
What lies beyond the ship?
Speaker 6 (07:08):
What?
Speaker 4 (07:08):
What lies beyond the ship?
Speaker 10 (07:10):
This handsome I will not permit such talk. The ship
is complete, The ship is universal, The ship is everywhere.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
The ship you're muttering to those of a frightened old man.
They answer nothing.
Speaker 10 (07:23):
You question the world. I think you lie. Hear me,
mister Island, for what you have already said. I can
have your body fed with the converter, your soul launched
on the endless trip.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
You threaten me for Jordan's So you think I fear
this dried figure of a man.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
Too, Sir. My friend is impetuous.
Speaker 10 (07:41):
He doesn't understand I might be persuaded to forget the
substantial gilt pig.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
You come on in the fight of the soul called
holy man offends me.
Speaker 8 (07:50):
No, you shall not leave.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Don't try to frighten me with a gun, old man,
remain where you are heritly warn you put down the gun.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Now, no closer very well then this?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Who have.
Speaker 8 (08:07):
Is he dead?
Speaker 6 (08:09):
I don't know?
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Come on here, we've got to get out of here
now where we can't go back? They feed us into
the conversion.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
What's that? The old woman must have turned in an alarm.
Come on, the patrol will be here in no time.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Where can we go the upper levels but the mute
We'll have to take our chance.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
That's the patrol. We've got to climb.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Down the car hold the ladder, sure week. How far
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are we from the outside wall.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Hisself with a deck? About two miles mutant territory.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Come on, we'll try to pass away.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
You me what?
Speaker 10 (09:10):
I don't know?
Speaker 4 (09:11):
I feel as if being watched hots your imagination. Perhaps
it's only a ship's right grip on yourself. It was
as big as a dog. Come on, I can't drag
myself much. We've got to find a compartment with water.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
If only you hadn't asked him that stupid question.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
He was going over that. Why did you do it?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Why?
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Alan? I've been thinking about it for a long time.
And when he began to give me those stupid pat answers, well,
I just saw red, I guess.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
But who were you to question the ways of Jordan?
When you asked me to go with you to visit
the Witness? I thought you wanted spiritual help.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
I never dreamed, so sorry, Alan, I couldn't foresee this.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
I didn't know what Wait?
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Wait a minute, Oh what another ship?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Right?
Speaker 5 (09:55):
No?
Speaker 4 (09:57):
I thought I saw something move Ye, I didn't see anything.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Maybe my eyes are going ben still.
Speaker 7 (10:07):
You?
Speaker 11 (10:19):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (10:20):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Where where am i?
Speaker 5 (10:25):
What are you get away from me?
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Alan?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
A nice pair? Away from me?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Alan?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Alan kill Hibo? Not yet? Who are you forgive my
friend Bobo?
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Like so many of my people, he's rather impetuous where
members of the so called super race are concerned.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Who are you?
Speaker 4 (10:49):
What place is this?
Speaker 6 (10:54):
As you can guess from my leg, I'm a mutant?
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Where is Alan?
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Your friend is dead? I was not able to restrain
my people in time to save him.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Why don't you destroy me and get it over with?
Speaker 6 (11:07):
We do not care for pleasure, mister Hoyland only when necessary.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
You know my name.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
I read your identification tag.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Who are you mutants can't read?
Speaker 6 (11:19):
My name is Gregory. I am a leader of my people.
Although we are unfortunate in our heredity, mister Hoyland, many
of us are quite intelligent.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Why do you live like animals?
Speaker 6 (11:32):
We would rather live like free animals than like regimented
slaves as you do.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
I've heard that you practice cannibalism.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
Undoubtedly you hear many things about us. We raise our
own cattle on the upper levels, and those of our
people who choose to farm raise enough crops for our
small population. Turn your head. Why this one?
Speaker 4 (11:57):
I've never seen a creature like him.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
Bobo is an unfortunate He was born without the power
of speech.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
How can you tolerate a monstrosity?
Speaker 6 (12:07):
We have learned to live with difference. If we began
to destroy our imperfect as you do on the lower levels,
there would soon be no one left.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Violates the regulations the word of Jordan's and.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
Mister Island, your people are really primitive and barbaric.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
You dare say that to me?
Speaker 6 (12:23):
I dare say good. Dear more, Let us go to
my compartment and speak further. I'm always interested in information
of the lower levels.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
I won't give you any information, Bobo.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
I want mister Harland in my cabin. Please mind you
to go quietly, mister Holland, Bobo has a hatred of
superior beings, which is unfortunate, but quite understand. Proceed and
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to mister Darland, this is where you live. Yes, but
you have books stolen from your libraries.
Speaker 12 (13:14):
Mister Island, Compton's astrophysics, the philosophy of it is still
a navigation celestial mechanics.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
You have read these, um most of them?
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Why did you bring me? What do you intend to do?
Speaker 6 (13:35):
You believe in Jordan, mister Arland, there is no other belief.
And the trip I suppose you believe in the trip
to well, what.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Else is there to believe? When you die, your remains
are fed to the converter and your soul makes the trip.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
And where does the trip take you?
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Why to Centaurus of course?
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Huh uh? And well what is Saurus?
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Why Centaurus? Mind you? I'm just telling you the orthodox answer.
Centauris is where you arrive when you've made the trip,
a place where everything is happy, and everybody's happy, and
there's always good eating it's.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Mythological, of course, and you believe this.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
The peasants believe it literally, but many of the younger
scientists like myself know that it's figurative, symbolic.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
Why do you ask, didn't it ever occur to you,
mister harnand that the trip is exactly what your peasants
believe it is that the ship and all the crew
were actually going someplace.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Movie, the ship can't go anywhere.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
It already is everywhere. Imagine a place bigger than the ship,
much bigger, with a ship inside it moving inside.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
But there can't be any place bigger than the ship.
There wouldn't be any place for it to be.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Oh, for's sake, listen, you know the lowest level. Yes,
if you'll stop digging a hole in the low lowest level,
where would that whole go? Where would that ho?
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (15:05):
No, it's forbidden to think that. You thought, where.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Would it go?
Speaker 4 (15:08):
No? No, I can't think about it.
Speaker 7 (15:12):
Or bo.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
Bobo. We're going to take mister Harland to the place.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Where are we.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
Going to the top level? But it's certain death nonsense.
I've been there a thousand times. Come along, No, I won't.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
You can't make me.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
I think we can. Now, shall we proceed peacefully or
shall I have Bobo persuade.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
You open the door?
Speaker 11 (15:47):
Bobo inside?
Speaker 6 (15:59):
What place is this? This, mister Hoyland, is the main
control room. When, mister Holland, you're trembling, It isn't true.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
There is no such place except in mythology.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
You younger men are so wise, mister Hoyland, except for
one thing. This happens to be the main control room
of the ship.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
But it's it's nothing but a huge room with an
instrument panel.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
What did you expect?
Speaker 4 (16:25):
How do you know this is the main control.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
See these instruments using them to navigate the many hundreds
of years ago, actually steered the ship on its voyage.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
I don't understand, but.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
I don't suppose you would. Your people have been so
steeped in superstition and ignorance that the whole concept has
lost its meaning. Sit in that chair, don't be frightened.
Sit down very well. Look up. What do you see?
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Nothing but a huge shield?
Speaker 6 (16:57):
Watch it for one moment, mister Hoyland. You are going
to see something that few of us have ever been
privileged to witness, something so dazzling that you may find
it hard to accept at first.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
But it is there.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
It is a reality, and ultimately you must accept it.
What are you doing, I'm dimming the lights. Don't be frightened.
Keep your eyes focused on the shield above us. Ready
watched the shield.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
It's flying back.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Coostop.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
Choice.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Well what am I seeing?
Speaker 6 (17:43):
The universe, mister Harland, The universe and all its beauty,
the stars, the planets, the Sun's moves, and the constellations.
This is your heritage, mister Harland, the heritage. You'll be
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too stupid to.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
See you but it can't be. The ship is the universe.
There is nothing but the sheep.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
But there it is. You see it before your eyes
spread out like a canopy of glory. You still deny it?
Answer me, mister Hoyland. Do you deny it?
Speaker 10 (18:30):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (18:32):
Oh, I can't. They lie?
Speaker 8 (18:38):
They lie to us.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Good?
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Why did you close the shield? You will see it
again if you're not afraid.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
I'm not afraid.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
Many times I've shown this to others of your people
who be captured, and though they saw it before their
bury eyes, they will not believe it.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Tell me about it, Tell me about the ship, about
the universe. What are these things? How did this come about?
Speaker 6 (19:05):
Many thousands of years ago, on a planet like those
you've just seen, a planet called Earth, a scientist named
Jordan decided to build a ship that would carry men
from one planet to another. For many years, Jordan and
thousands of others studied and planned, and when they were finished,
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they built the ship, a ship so large that it
had to be assembled in its own orbit beyond the
place called the Moon. Sixty years it took them to construct,
and when it was finished, a whole new science had
been conceived. Then the trip was begun, the trip that
was to land a colony of Earthmen on a far
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off planet called Centaurus, millions of light years beyond the
furthest planet ever reached before.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
How do you know these things?
Speaker 6 (19:57):
Among my books are the log which Jordan self kept,
and the records of the journey for the first forty years.
What happened there was a mutiny. A man named Huff
led a rebellion of those who wanted to turn back.
In the struggle, the navigators were killed, and the crew
fell into a state of anarchy. In the years to follow,
small groups of men try to organize the ship for navigation,
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and each time they failed. Finally, the whole idea was abandoned,
and so for centuries we have swung in space, unmanned, undirected,
living in a lost world of our own making, without purpose,
without direction.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Why have you told me this? Why have you brought
me here? You could have killed me?
Speaker 6 (20:47):
Can you guess?
Speaker 4 (20:49):
No? No, I can't unless but it would be too fantastic. Well,
you you want to finish the trip? Yes, that's it.
What would it take to do it?
Speaker 6 (21:10):
A miracle? Almost? The crew would have to be trained,
many people, each skilled in a certain duty. Couldn't you
train your own people? We are too few besides the
main drivers in the lower levels, where my people are
forbidden to go.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
No.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
It would mean that both our peoples would have to
work together, our differences and courage, rather than deny.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
It can be done. You showed me, you can show others.
I can show them. Can you see the captain himself?
I have an uncle on the central board. I'll tell
him what I've seen here.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
And do you think he'll believe you?
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Send one of your people with me.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
That's asking a good deal.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
I'm risking a good deal by going back.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
Very well, Bobo will go with you.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
He can't talk.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
There would be no need for talk. I will write
a message guarantee safe conduct for a group of unarmed
scientists to visit the main control room. Bobo will take
you safely through our turret.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Right.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
What happens when you reach your own level? It's up to.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
You one moment. Yes, what you.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Quick, Uncle Edison, But this mute He's harmless.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
Please?
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Now, what is this? You're why? I know all about that? Listen, Uncle,
I must see the captain. The captain. Are you mad?
You're a council member. You can get me to see him.
They'll kill you. You want it for Harris, I don't care.
I must speak with the captain. You're close to him.
You can arrange it.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
I don't understand what.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Uncle, Listen to me. The ship is moving. I can
prove it. Do you understand there is a purpose in
the ship.
Speaker 7 (22:53):
I don't understand what you're babbling.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Never mind. Just talk to the captain. Tell him I
have information of trommendous importance. Tell him I've arranged a
truce with the mutants, a truth here shown this place
of time by their leader. Do it, uncle, for my sake.
I don't know. Uncle. If I'm to die, let this
be my last request to.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
You very well.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
I'll speak to the captain.
Speaker 13 (23:20):
I'll try.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
And you see, mister Arland that you saw this with
your own eyes. I swear it, Captain, I swear it
on the word of Jordan. Let me see that paper again.
Hmm do you think, mendarest.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
I don't know, sir. It might be a trick.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
I guarantee you safe conduct him. If these things there is,
mister Hurland reports them. We'd paid the risk a few lives.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
A man is a convicted heritage.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Still we mustn't discount his word entirely. He has a
safe conduct, a mutant risk. It's life coming with him.
I think we might investigate. You will do it. I'll
have an expedition outfitted. Dismissed, Miss Darling. Thank you, sir,
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Captain don.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Se you'll make the necessary arrangements for an expedition address
you understand perfectly, sir, perfectly. You better funt your man here.
Speaker 11 (24:35):
This is the spot patrol.
Speaker 6 (24:39):
I see no welcoming party of mutants.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
There will be none. The leader will meet you inside
the main control room.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
You don't say, and just where is this main control room?
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Beyond that door?
Speaker 6 (24:49):
I see? Alright?
Speaker 5 (24:51):
Man ready arms why do you ready arms in case
of ambush?
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Ambush? Don't you think they could have ambushed you on
the way up here a good deal more.
Speaker 5 (24:59):
Easily, Normoustor and I think you're a muri love. They
have a place in the converter for that time.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
Are you no, mister Harlem.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
But most certainly you are to think that we could
be lowered up here to be slaughtered with a fantastic
story about some mythical control room.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
That's very hurt. Lieutenant. I warn you these people have
acted in good faith. If you break hard your arms
to open the control room, mister Harton, no, not until
those guns are dismounted. As leader of this expedition, I
order you to call him. I refuse. You cannot do
this thing. This is no way to keep the truth.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
Very well if you refuse, Oh there newtant come out.
For Jordan's sake, Lieutenant, require for comfort Newton.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Open the door, please, Jordan, don't let anything happen.
Speaker 6 (25:46):
Please door, it's opening, pretty man, someone's coming out.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Look at his leg horrible steady, he's walking toward this
against him.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Look out, No, you fools to tell him to come
the rest of them.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
Fire pat should take them, lesson, I won't forget all right, man,
inside the room oil. Then you're under arrest as a
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conspirator in this ambush.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Ambush you fool, you blind, stupid fool.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
Well enough have you been inside this place before?
Speaker 6 (26:43):
Yes? What's all this machinery?
Speaker 4 (26:45):
These are the controls he would have used to steer
the ship.
Speaker 7 (26:48):
He's gone out of his mind, Lieutenant steer the ship?
Speaker 4 (26:53):
Who the leader? The one you killed? This ugly mutant,
This ugly mutant happened to be a and of true greatness,
your man, am I. This man had a vision which
could have saved you, but you chose to kill him
because you couldn't stand the sight of a difference from you.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
Ah, not listening to these raving.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Cause your ears.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Shut your minds against the conscience that tells you what's
wrong to kill, what tells you that your need of
the arragon only proves your inadequacy to yourself.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
Shut him up, don't listen to a man.
Speaker 10 (27:19):
You can't shut.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Your ears, My word sting you. You cannot shut your mind,
and you cannot shut your arm.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Don't David, the roof it's moving back.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Look. Let the vision of this confound your ignorance and
blind your eyes.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
This is the heritage you tried.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
To stifle in your own breast.
Speaker 14 (27:49):
This is the heritage of stars and open skies for
which men have yearned for centuries. Tried to destroy this,
and you will only destroy yourselves.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Then the heroding.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Kill me if you choose.
Speaker 13 (28:09):
But I say to you that this you cannot keep
from our people. That they will seek it out, and
the ship will be mad, and the ship will be steered,
and there will be freedom and purpose and respect for
our town.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
This is your heritage. Look upon the universe.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
You have just heard another adventure into the unknown world
of the future, the world of.
Speaker 6 (29:09):
Today.
Speaker 15 (29:09):
Dimension X has transcribed Universe written for radio by George Leffertson,
based on a story by Robert Heinlein Beaches. In the
cast were Mason Adams as Hugh and Peter Cappell as Gregory.
Your host was Norman Rose. Music by Bert Berman, engineer
Bill Chambers. Sound created by Manny Siegel, Max Russell, and
West Conan. Dimension X is produced by William Welch and
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directed by Edward King at Archie Gardner. Tangles with Tallulah
Bankhead on The Big Show
Adventures in Time and Space transcribed in future tense. In
the beginning, there was Jordan thinking his lonely thoughts. Out
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of the loneeness came a longing. Out of the longing
came a vision. Out of the dream came a planning,
And out of the planning came decision. Jordan's hand was
lifted and the ship was born.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
You look out, Are you all right?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
It missed me.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
What was it?
Speaker 4 (00:51):
A mutant with a slingshot? I think a dashed down
that passageway.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
You want to go after it.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
We never catch it, Alan, It's probably twelve decks above
us by now.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
I didn't think they ever came down this. Patrols usually
get them before they reach this level.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Ah, they get more daring with each generation. This one
looked like a female.
Speaker 6 (01:06):
Male or female. It might have killed us.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
I told you this trip was pure foolishness, climbing twenty
four decked levels to hear a crazy old man rave.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
We're almost there in a compartment X fifteen, level twenty four.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
This is the place.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
This area smells as if it hadn't been visited by
a sanitation crew for generations.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Part of the ship is almost deserted. Yes, this is
the compartment of John the Witness.
Speaker 7 (01:39):
Who are you?
Speaker 4 (01:40):
My name is Hugh Hoylan. I'm a cadet from the
Scientist Barrack. This is my friend Alan Mahoney.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
What do you want of John the Witness?
Speaker 6 (01:46):
Only to talk?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Are you a believer in Jordan's Naturally?
Speaker 5 (01:50):
I have heard that there are those among the younger
scientists who doubt the word of Jordan's.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
To doubt it's death. We're not heretics, and I have
brought a gift of tobacco grown on the richest level.
It smells good, I assure you it's the best.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Wait here, what a ratsnessh what the devil do you
think he can tell you?
Speaker 4 (02:23):
I don't know now, Hush, Well, you are John the Witness.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
I have good eating to you.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
I am Hugh Hoyland. This is my friend Alan Mahoney.
Speaker 8 (02:38):
And what rings a gentleman of the Scientist's glass to
my humble department.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
I have heard that you and your parents before you
have long been keepers of the legend of the ship.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
Since Jordan gave the word.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
I am anxious to hear the word as Jordan spoke it.
Why you see among the young scientists. There have been
some who talk against.
Speaker 8 (02:59):
The regulations against such hereships.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Some of them say the ship has no purpose. They say,
they say that we're here accidentally, that we have no
more grace in Jordan's eyes than the most deformed mutant
who dwells in the highest level of the ship.
Speaker 8 (03:16):
What shall I say to you?
Speaker 6 (03:20):
I wish to.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Hear the word from the mouth of one who knows
that I may become more convinced. You have gift for
the witness, the finest tobacco good.
Speaker 8 (03:33):
I will dim the light. Now pay close attention for
these other words, as my father's father's father gave them
to his son's son's son. This is how the ship
came into being, how our people were created. In the beginning,
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there was only Jordan's thinking, his lonely thoughts.
Speaker 9 (04:05):
In the beginning, there was darkness, formless and dead. Out
of the loneliness came a longing. Out of the longing
came a vision. Out of the dream came a planning,
And out of the planning came decision. Jordan's hand was
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lifted and the ship was born. Mile after mile.
Speaker 10 (04:34):
Of good compartments, tank after tank for golden corn, ladder
and passage, door and locker fit.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
For the needs of the yet unborn.
Speaker 10 (04:48):
He looked on his work and found it pleasing meet
for a race that was yet to be. He thought
of man, and man came into being God, and churches
not and search for the keys. Men untamed would shame
his maker. Men unruled would spoil the plan. So Jordan
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made the regulations, some to speak and some to listen.
Order came to the ranks of men. Crew he created
to work. Attestationis scientists to guidet the plan. Over them
all he created captain, made him judge of the race
of men. Thus it was in the golden age. These
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are the true words, as my father's father taught them.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
But what are the strange beast like people on the
upper levels of the ship. Surely Jordan did not create them.
Speaker 10 (05:57):
Jordan is perfect. All below him perfection. You have heard
of the legend of Houff.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
I have heard that he mutinied against Jordan.
Speaker 10 (06:05):
Darkness swallowed the ways of virtue. Sin prevailed upon the ship,
and before wisdom prevailed in the bodies of Huff and
his followers were fed into the converter. Some of the
rebels escaped and lived to father the mutants. They are
tainted with the sins of their fathers.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
One more question, witness speak, What is the ship?
Speaker 10 (06:29):
The ship is a great sphere twenty five kilometers wide
and one hundred levels deep.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
I know that, but what about the upper levels?
Speaker 10 (06:42):
The regulations forbid us to venture into the upper levels.
But it is said that beyond the levels of the
mutants lies the forbidden place where Jordan's spirit prevails.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
So I've heard.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
But something troubles me, something which prompted my coming.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
Here is my son.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
What lies beyond the ship?
Speaker 6 (07:08):
What?
Speaker 4 (07:08):
What lies beyond the ship?
Speaker 10 (07:10):
This handsome I will not permit such talk. The ship
is complete, The ship is universal, The ship is everywhere.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
The ship you're muttering to those of a frightened old man.
They answer nothing.
Speaker 10 (07:23):
You question the world. I think you lie. Hear me,
mister Island, for what you have already said. I can
have your body fed with the converter, your soul launched
on the endless trip.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
You threaten me for Jordan's So you think I fear
this dried figure of a man.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
Too, Sir. My friend is impetuous.
Speaker 10 (07:41):
He doesn't understand I might be persuaded to forget the
substantial gilt pig.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
You come on in the fight of the soul called
holy man offends me.
Speaker 8 (07:50):
No, you shall not leave.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Don't try to frighten me with a gun, old man,
remain where you are heritly warn you put down the gun.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Now, no closer very well then this?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Who have.
Speaker 8 (08:07):
Is he dead?
Speaker 6 (08:09):
I don't know?
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Come on here, we've got to get out of here
now where we can't go back? They feed us into
the conversion.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
What's that? The old woman must have turned in an alarm.
Come on, the patrol will be here in no time.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Where can we go the upper levels but the mute
We'll have to take our chance.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
That's the patrol. We've got to climb.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Down the car hold the ladder, sure week. How far
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are we from the outside wall.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Hisself with a deck? About two miles mutant territory.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Come on, we'll try to pass away.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
You me what?
Speaker 10 (09:10):
I don't know?
Speaker 4 (09:11):
I feel as if being watched hots your imagination. Perhaps
it's only a ship's right grip on yourself. It was
as big as a dog. Come on, I can't drag
myself much. We've got to find a compartment with water.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
If only you hadn't asked him that stupid question.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
He was going over that. Why did you do it?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Why?
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Alan? I've been thinking about it for a long time.
And when he began to give me those stupid pat answers, well,
I just saw red, I guess.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
But who were you to question the ways of Jordan?
When you asked me to go with you to visit
the Witness? I thought you wanted spiritual help.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
I never dreamed, so sorry, Alan, I couldn't foresee this.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
I didn't know what Wait?
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Wait a minute, Oh what another ship?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Right?
Speaker 5 (09:55):
No?
Speaker 4 (09:57):
I thought I saw something move Ye, I didn't see anything.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Maybe my eyes are going ben still.
Speaker 7 (10:07):
You?
Speaker 11 (10:19):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (10:20):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Where where am i?
Speaker 5 (10:25):
What are you get away from me?
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Alan?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
A nice pair? Away from me?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Alan?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Alan kill Hibo? Not yet? Who are you forgive my
friend Bobo?
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Like so many of my people, he's rather impetuous where
members of the so called super race are concerned.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Who are you?
Speaker 4 (10:49):
What place is this?
Speaker 6 (10:54):
As you can guess from my leg, I'm a mutant?
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Where is Alan?
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Your friend is dead? I was not able to restrain
my people in time to save him.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Why don't you destroy me and get it over with?
Speaker 6 (11:07):
We do not care for pleasure, mister Hoyland only when necessary.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
You know my name.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
I read your identification tag.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Who are you mutants can't read?
Speaker 6 (11:19):
My name is Gregory. I am a leader of my people.
Although we are unfortunate in our heredity, mister Hoyland, many
of us are quite intelligent.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Why do you live like animals?
Speaker 6 (11:32):
We would rather live like free animals than like regimented
slaves as you do.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
I've heard that you practice cannibalism.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
Undoubtedly you hear many things about us. We raise our
own cattle on the upper levels, and those of our
people who choose to farm raise enough crops for our
small population. Turn your head. Why this one?
Speaker 4 (11:57):
I've never seen a creature like him.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
Bobo is an unfortunate He was born without the power
of speech.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
How can you tolerate a monstrosity?
Speaker 6 (12:07):
We have learned to live with difference. If we began
to destroy our imperfect as you do on the lower levels,
there would soon be no one left.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Violates the regulations the word of Jordan's and.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
Mister Island, your people are really primitive and barbaric.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
You dare say that to me?
Speaker 6 (12:23):
I dare say good. Dear more, Let us go to
my compartment and speak further. I'm always interested in information
of the lower levels.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
I won't give you any information, Bobo.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
I want mister Harland in my cabin. Please mind you
to go quietly, mister Holland, Bobo has a hatred of
superior beings, which is unfortunate, but quite understand. Proceed and
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to mister Darland, this is where you live. Yes, but
you have books stolen from your libraries.
Speaker 12 (13:14):
Mister Island, Compton's astrophysics, the philosophy of it is still
a navigation celestial mechanics.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
You have read these, um most of them?
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Why did you bring me? What do you intend to do?
Speaker 6 (13:35):
You believe in Jordan, mister Arland, there is no other belief.
And the trip I suppose you believe in the trip
to well, what.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Else is there to believe? When you die, your remains
are fed to the converter and your soul makes the trip.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
And where does the trip take you?
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Why to Centaurus of course?
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Huh uh? And well what is Saurus?
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Why Centaurus? Mind you? I'm just telling you the orthodox answer.
Centauris is where you arrive when you've made the trip,
a place where everything is happy, and everybody's happy, and
there's always good eating it's.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Mythological, of course, and you believe this.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
The peasants believe it literally, but many of the younger
scientists like myself know that it's figurative, symbolic.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
Why do you ask, didn't it ever occur to you,
mister harnand that the trip is exactly what your peasants
believe it is that the ship and all the crew
were actually going someplace.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Movie, the ship can't go anywhere.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
It already is everywhere. Imagine a place bigger than the ship,
much bigger, with a ship inside it moving inside.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
But there can't be any place bigger than the ship.
There wouldn't be any place for it to be.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Oh, for's sake, listen, you know the lowest level. Yes,
if you'll stop digging a hole in the low lowest level,
where would that whole go? Where would that ho?
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (15:05):
No, it's forbidden to think that. You thought, where.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Would it go?
Speaker 4 (15:08):
No? No, I can't think about it.
Speaker 7 (15:12):
Or bo.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
Bobo. We're going to take mister Harland to the place.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Where are we.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
Going to the top level? But it's certain death nonsense.
I've been there a thousand times. Come along, No, I won't.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
You can't make me.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
I think we can. Now, shall we proceed peacefully or
shall I have Bobo persuade.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
You open the door?
Speaker 11 (15:47):
Bobo inside?
Speaker 6 (15:59):
What place is this? This, mister Hoyland, is the main
control room. When, mister Holland, you're trembling, It isn't true.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
There is no such place except in mythology.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
You younger men are so wise, mister Hoyland, except for
one thing. This happens to be the main control room
of the ship.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
But it's it's nothing but a huge room with an
instrument panel.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
What did you expect?
Speaker 4 (16:25):
How do you know this is the main control.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
See these instruments using them to navigate the many hundreds
of years ago, actually steered the ship on its voyage.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
I don't understand, but.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
I don't suppose you would. Your people have been so
steeped in superstition and ignorance that the whole concept has
lost its meaning. Sit in that chair, don't be frightened.
Sit down very well. Look up. What do you see?
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Nothing but a huge shield?
Speaker 6 (16:57):
Watch it for one moment, mister Hoyland. You are going
to see something that few of us have ever been
privileged to witness, something so dazzling that you may find
it hard to accept at first.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
But it is there.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
It is a reality, and ultimately you must accept it.
What are you doing, I'm dimming the lights. Don't be frightened.
Keep your eyes focused on the shield above us. Ready
watched the shield.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
It's flying back.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Coostop.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
Choice.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Well what am I seeing?
Speaker 6 (17:43):
The universe, mister Harland, The universe and all its beauty,
the stars, the planets, the Sun's moves, and the constellations.
This is your heritage, mister Harland, the heritage. You'll be
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too stupid to.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
See you but it can't be. The ship is the universe.
There is nothing but the sheep.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
But there it is. You see it before your eyes
spread out like a canopy of glory. You still deny it?
Answer me, mister Hoyland. Do you deny it?
Speaker 10 (18:30):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (18:32):
Oh, I can't. They lie?
Speaker 8 (18:38):
They lie to us.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Good?
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Why did you close the shield? You will see it
again if you're not afraid.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
I'm not afraid.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
Many times I've shown this to others of your people
who be captured, and though they saw it before their
bury eyes, they will not believe it.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Tell me about it, Tell me about the ship, about
the universe. What are these things? How did this come about?
Speaker 6 (19:05):
Many thousands of years ago, on a planet like those
you've just seen, a planet called Earth, a scientist named
Jordan decided to build a ship that would carry men
from one planet to another. For many years, Jordan and
thousands of others studied and planned, and when they were finished,
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they built the ship, a ship so large that it
had to be assembled in its own orbit beyond the
place called the Moon. Sixty years it took them to construct,
and when it was finished, a whole new science had
been conceived. Then the trip was begun, the trip that
was to land a colony of Earthmen on a far
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off planet called Centaurus, millions of light years beyond the
furthest planet ever reached before.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
How do you know these things?
Speaker 6 (19:57):
Among my books are the log which Jordan self kept,
and the records of the journey for the first forty years.
What happened there was a mutiny. A man named Huff
led a rebellion of those who wanted to turn back.
In the struggle, the navigators were killed, and the crew
fell into a state of anarchy. In the years to follow,
small groups of men try to organize the ship for navigation,
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and each time they failed. Finally, the whole idea was abandoned,
and so for centuries we have swung in space, unmanned, undirected,
living in a lost world of our own making, without purpose,
without direction.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Why have you told me this? Why have you brought
me here? You could have killed me?
Speaker 6 (20:47):
Can you guess?
Speaker 4 (20:49):
No? No, I can't unless but it would be too fantastic. Well,
you you want to finish the trip? Yes, that's it.
What would it take to do it?
Speaker 6 (21:10):
A miracle? Almost? The crew would have to be trained,
many people, each skilled in a certain duty. Couldn't you
train your own people? We are too few besides the
main drivers in the lower levels, where my people are
forbidden to go.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
No.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
It would mean that both our peoples would have to
work together, our differences and courage, rather than deny.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
It can be done. You showed me, you can show others.
I can show them. Can you see the captain himself?
I have an uncle on the central board. I'll tell
him what I've seen here.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
And do you think he'll believe you?
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Send one of your people with me.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
That's asking a good deal.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
I'm risking a good deal by going back.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
Very well, Bobo will go with you.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
He can't talk.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
There would be no need for talk. I will write
a message guarantee safe conduct for a group of unarmed
scientists to visit the main control room. Bobo will take
you safely through our turret.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Right.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
What happens when you reach your own level? It's up to.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
You one moment. Yes, what you.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Quick, Uncle Edison, But this mute He's harmless.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
Please?
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Now, what is this? You're why? I know all about that? Listen, Uncle,
I must see the captain. The captain. Are you mad?
You're a council member. You can get me to see him.
They'll kill you. You want it for Harris, I don't care.
I must speak with the captain. You're close to him.
You can arrange it.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
I don't understand what.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Uncle, Listen to me. The ship is moving. I can
prove it. Do you understand there is a purpose in
the ship.
Speaker 7 (22:53):
I don't understand what you're babbling.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Never mind. Just talk to the captain. Tell him I
have information of trommendous importance. Tell him I've arranged a
truce with the mutants, a truth here shown this place
of time by their leader. Do it, uncle, for my sake.
I don't know. Uncle. If I'm to die, let this
be my last request to.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
You very well.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
I'll speak to the captain.
Speaker 13 (23:20):
I'll try.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
And you see, mister Arland that you saw this with
your own eyes. I swear it, Captain, I swear it
on the word of Jordan. Let me see that paper again.
Hmm do you think, mendarest.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
I don't know, sir. It might be a trick.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
I guarantee you safe conduct him. If these things there is,
mister Hurland reports them. We'd paid the risk a few lives.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
A man is a convicted heritage.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Still we mustn't discount his word entirely. He has a
safe conduct, a mutant risk. It's life coming with him.
I think we might investigate. You will do it. I'll
have an expedition outfitted. Dismissed, Miss Darling. Thank you, sir,
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Captain don.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Se you'll make the necessary arrangements for an expedition address
you understand perfectly, sir, perfectly. You better funt your man here.
Speaker 11 (24:35):
This is the spot patrol.
Speaker 6 (24:39):
I see no welcoming party of mutants.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
There will be none. The leader will meet you inside
the main control room.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
You don't say, and just where is this main control room?
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Beyond that door?
Speaker 6 (24:49):
I see? Alright?
Speaker 5 (24:51):
Man ready arms why do you ready arms in case
of ambush?
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Ambush? Don't you think they could have ambushed you on
the way up here a good deal more.
Speaker 5 (24:59):
Easily, Normoustor and I think you're a muri love. They
have a place in the converter for that time.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
Are you no, mister Harlem.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
But most certainly you are to think that we could
be lowered up here to be slaughtered with a fantastic
story about some mythical control room.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
That's very hurt. Lieutenant. I warn you these people have
acted in good faith. If you break hard your arms
to open the control room, mister Harton, no, not until
those guns are dismounted. As leader of this expedition, I
order you to call him. I refuse. You cannot do
this thing. This is no way to keep the truth.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
Very well if you refuse, Oh there newtant come out.
For Jordan's sake, Lieutenant, require for comfort Newton.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Open the door, please, Jordan, don't let anything happen.
Speaker 6 (25:46):
Please door, it's opening, pretty man, someone's coming out.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Look at his leg horrible steady, he's walking toward this
against him.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Look out, No, you fools to tell him to come
the rest of them.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
Fire pat should take them, lesson, I won't forget all right, man,
inside the room oil. Then you're under arrest as a
(26:33):
conspirator in this ambush.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Ambush you fool, you blind, stupid fool.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
Well enough have you been inside this place before?
Speaker 6 (26:43):
Yes? What's all this machinery?
Speaker 4 (26:45):
These are the controls he would have used to steer
the ship.
Speaker 7 (26:48):
He's gone out of his mind, Lieutenant steer the ship?
Speaker 4 (26:53):
Who the leader? The one you killed? This ugly mutant,
This ugly mutant happened to be a and of true greatness,
your man, am I. This man had a vision which
could have saved you, but you chose to kill him
because you couldn't stand the sight of a difference from you.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
Ah, not listening to these raving.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Cause your ears.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Shut your minds against the conscience that tells you what's
wrong to kill, what tells you that your need of
the arragon only proves your inadequacy to yourself.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
Shut him up, don't listen to a man.
Speaker 10 (27:19):
You can't shut.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Your ears, My word sting you. You cannot shut your mind,
and you cannot shut your arm.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Don't David, the roof it's moving back.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Look. Let the vision of this confound your ignorance and
blind your eyes.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
This is the heritage you tried.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
To stifle in your own breast.
Speaker 14 (27:49):
This is the heritage of stars and open skies for
which men have yearned for centuries. Tried to destroy this,
and you will only destroy yourselves.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Then the heroding.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Kill me if you choose.
Speaker 13 (28:09):
But I say to you that this you cannot keep
from our people. That they will seek it out, and
the ship will be mad, and the ship will be steered,
and there will be freedom and purpose and respect for
our town.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
This is your heritage. Look upon the universe.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
You have just heard another adventure into the unknown world
of the future, the world of.
Speaker 6 (29:09):
Today.
Speaker 15 (29:09):
Dimension X has transcribed Universe written for radio by George Leffertson,
based on a story by Robert Heinlein Beaches. In the
cast were Mason Adams as Hugh and Peter Cappell as Gregory.
Your host was Norman Rose. Music by Bert Berman, engineer
Bill Chambers. Sound created by Manny Siegel, Max Russell, and
West Conan. Dimension X is produced by William Welch and
(29:32):
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