August 28, 2024 • 30 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 loneliness came a longing. Out of the longing.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Came a vision.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Out of the dream came of planning, and out of
the planning came decision. Jordan's hand was lifted and the
ship was born.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
You look out, are you all right? Yes? It missed me.
What was it? A mutant with a slingshot? I think
a dashed down that passageway. You want to go after it,
so well, never catch it, Alan, It's probably twelve decks
a bus by now. I didn't think they ever came
down this.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
The trolls usually get them before they reach this level.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Ah, they get more daring with each generation. And this
one looked like a female.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Male or female. It might have killed us.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I told you this trip was pure foolishness, climbing twenty
four decked levels to hear a crazy old man rave.
We're almost there in a compartment X fifteen, level twenty four.
This is the place. This area smells as if it
hadn't been visited by a sanitation crew for generations. Part
of the ship is almost deserted. Yes, this is the
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compartment of John the Witness.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Who are you?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
My name is Hugh Hoylan. I'm a cadet from the
Scientist Barrack. This is my friend Alan Mahoney.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
What do you want of John the Witness?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Only to talk?
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Are you a believer in Jordan's naturally? I have heard that.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
There are the les among the younger scientists who doubt
the word of Jordan's it's.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
A doubt, it's death. We're not heretics. And I have
brought a gift of tobacco grown on.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
The richest level.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
It smells good, I assure you it's the best.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Wait here, ratsnessh what the devil do you think he
can tell you?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I don't know now, hush a well, you are John
the Witness.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
I am good eating to you.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I am Hugh Hoyland. This is my friend Alan Mahoney.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
And what brings a gentleman of the scientist's class to
my humble department.
Speaker 3 (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 3 (02:49):
I am anxious to hear the word as Jordan spoke it.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
Why you see.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Among the young scientists, there have been some who talk against.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
The regulations, against such heresips.
Speaker 3 (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 6 (03:16):
What shall I say to you?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I wish to hear the word from the mouth of
one who knows that I may become more convinced.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
You have gift for the witness.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
The finest tobacco.
Speaker 7 (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.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
In the beginning.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
Was only Jordan's thinking, his lonely thoughts. 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
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the planning came decision. Jordan's hand was lifted and the
ship was born. Mile after mile of good compartments, tank
after tank for golden corn ladder and passage, door and locker,
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fit for the needs of the yet unborn. He looked
on his work and found it pleasing meet for a
race that.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
Was yet to be. He thought of man, and man
came into.
Speaker 7 (04:57):
Be and chudge is not and search for the keys.
Men untamed would shame his maker. Men unruled would spoil
the plan. So Jordan made the regulations, some to speak
and some to listen.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
Order came to the ranks of men.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
Crew he created to work at the stations, scientists to
guide the plan over them. All he created captain, made
him judge of the race of men. Thus it was
in the golden age. These are the true words, as
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my father's father taught them.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
But what are the strange beast like people on the
upper levels of the ship. Surely Jordan did not create them.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Jordan is perfect. All below him perfection. You have heard
of the legend of Huff.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I have heard that he mutinied against Jordan.
Speaker 7 (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 3 (06:23):
One more question, witness speak, What is the ship?
Speaker 6 (06:29):
The ship is a great sphere.
Speaker 7 (06:33):
Twenty five kilometers wide and one hundred levels deep.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I know that, But what about the upper levels?
Speaker 7 (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 8 (06:58):
So I've heard.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
But something troubles me, something which prompted my coming here.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
Here is my son.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
What lies beyond the ship?
Speaker 6 (07:08):
What?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
What lies beyond the ship?
Speaker 6 (07:10):
This handsome I will not permit such talk.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
The ship is complete, The ship is universal, The ship
is everywhere.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
The ship.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
You're muttering that I was of a frightened old man.
They answer nothing. You question the world. I think you lie.
Speaker 7 (07:25):
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 strip.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
You threaten me for Jordan's So you think I fear
this dried figure of a man.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Too, Sir.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
My friend is impetuous.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
He doesn't understand.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
I might be persuaded to forget the substantial gill pig.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
You come on in the fight of the soul called
holy man offends me.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
No, you shall not leave.
Speaker 3 (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 6 (07:58):
Now, no closer very well?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Then, who have.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Got him?
Speaker 6 (08:07):
Is he dead?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I don't know?
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Come on here, we've got to get out again. Now
where we can't go back? They feed us into the conversion.
What's that? The old woman must have turned in and alarm?
Come on the patrol O be here in no time.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Where can we go?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
The upper levels but the mute.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
We'll have to take our chance.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
That's the patrol.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
We've got to climb, actually down the cart wi.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
The ladder.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
She wait, how far are we from the outside walls
with the deck?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
About two miles? Mutant territory.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Come on, we'll try his pass away.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
You me what?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I don't know?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
I feels if being watched it's your imagination. Perhaps it's
only ships right. Get a grip on yourself.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
It was as big as a dog.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Come on, I can't drag myself much. We've got to
find a compartment with water. If only you hadn't asked
him that stupid questions. I know he was going over that.
Why did you do it? Why? 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. But who were you to question
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the ways of Jordan? When you asked me to go
with you to visit the Witness? I thought you wanted
spiritual help. I never dreamed this, Sorry, Alan, I couldn't
foresee this. I didn't know what Wait, wait a minute,
what another ship?
Speaker 9 (09:55):
Right?
Speaker 10 (09:55):
No?
Speaker 3 (09:57):
I thought I saw something move, I didn't see anything.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Maybe my eyes are going ben still.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
You? Oh?
Speaker 8 (10:20):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Where where am i? What are you get away from me? Alan?
Speaker 4 (10:32):
A nice pay away from me? Alan? Alan Killingbo?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Not yet?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Who are you forgive my friend Bobo? Like so many
of my people, he's rather impetuous. Where members of the
so called super race of concerned?
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Who are you? What place is this?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
As you can guess from my leg, I'm a mutant?
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Where is Alan?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Your friend is dead? I was not able to restrain
my people in time to save him.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Why don't you destroy me and get it over with?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
We do not care for pleasure, mister Hoyland, only when necessary.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
You know my name.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I read your identification tag.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Who are you mutants can't read?
Speaker 2 (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 3 (11:29):
Why do you live like animals?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
We would rather live like free animals than like regimented
slaves as you do.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
I've heard that you practice cannibalism.
Speaker 2 (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.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Why this one? I've never seen a creature like him?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Bobo and unfortunate. He was born without the power of speech.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
How can you tolerate a monstrosity?
Speaker 2 (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 violates the regulations
the word of Jordan's Mister Island, your people are really
primitive and barbaric.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
You dare say that to me?
Speaker 2 (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 3 (12:31):
I won't give you any information, Bobo.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
I want mister Harland in my cabin. Please mind you
to go quietly, mister Harland. Bobo has a hatred of
superior beings, which is unfortunate, but quite understand. Proceed and
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to mister Darland.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
This is where you live.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yes, but you have books stolen from your libraries.
Speaker 11 (13:14):
Mister Land, Compton's astrophysics, the philosophy of it is still
a navigation celestial mechanics.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
You have read these, um most of them?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Why did you bring me? What do you intend to do?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Do you believe in Jordan, mister Island?
Speaker 3 (13:38):
There is no other belief.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
And the trip I suppose you believe in the trip to.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Well, what else is there to believe? When you die,
your remains are fed to the converter and your soul
makes the trip. And where does the trip take you?
Why to Centaurus of course?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Huh huh? And well what is Staurus?
Speaker 3 (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 is happy,
and there's always good eating. It's mythological, of course, and
you'll believe this. The peasants believe it literally, but many
of the younger scientists like myself know that it's figurative, symbolic.
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Why do you ask.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Didn't it ever occur to you, mister hornand that the
trip is exactly what your peasants believe it is, that
the ship and all the crew were actually going someplace.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Movie, the ship can't go anywhere. It already is everywhere.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Imagine a place bigger than the ship, much bigger, with
a ship inside it moving inside.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
But there can't be any place bigger than the ship.
There wouldn't be any place for it to be.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Oh, for's sake, Thusten, you know the lowest level. Yes,
if you stop digging a hole in the low lowest level,
where would that hole go?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Where would that hold? Oh? No, it's forbidden to think that.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
You thought, where would it go?
Speaker 3 (15:08):
No? No, I can't think about it.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Obo bobo. We're going to take mister Harland to the place.
Where are we 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 3 (15:23):
You can't make me.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I think we can.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Not.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Shall we proceed peacefully? Or shall I have Bobo persuade
you open the door? Bobo inside?
Speaker 6 (15:59):
What place is this?
Speaker 2 (16:01):
This, mister Hoyland, is the main control room? When, mister Holland,
you're trembling.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
It isn't true. There is no such place except in mythology.
Speaker 2 (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 3 (16:19):
But it's it's nothing but a huge room with an
instrument panel.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
What did you expect?
Speaker 3 (16:25):
How do you know this is the main control.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
See these instruments using them to navigate the many hundreds
of years ago, actually steered the ship on a voyd.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
I don't understand that.
Speaker 2 (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 3 (16:55):
Nothing but a huge shield?
Speaker 2 (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, but it is there.
It is a reality, and ultimately you must accept it.
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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 4 (17:29):
It's flying back.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Coastop choice. Well, what am I seeing? The universe is
the Harland, The universe and all its beauty, the.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Stars, the planets.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
The suns, moons, and the constellations. This is your heritage,
mister Harland, the heritage.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
You'll be too stupid to see you but it can't be.
The ship is the Uliver. There is nothing but the sheep.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
But there it is. You see it before, your eyes
spread out like a canopy of glawy. You still deny it?
Answer me, mister Hoyland. Do you deny it?
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Oh, I can't. They lie?
Speaker 6 (18:38):
They lie to us.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Good?
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Why did you close the ship?
Speaker 2 (18:49):
You will see it again if you're not afraid.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
I'm not afraid.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Many times I've shown this to others of your people
who we captured, and though they saw it before their
very eyes, they will not believe it.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Tell me about it, Tell me about the ship, about
the universe. What are these things? How did this come about?
Speaker 2 (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 as 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 3 (19:54):
How do you know these things?
Speaker 2 (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 3 (20:40):
Why have you told me this? Why have you brought
me here? You could have killed me?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Can you guess?
Speaker 3 (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? A miracle? Almost?
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The crew would have to be trained, many people, each
skilled in a certain duty. Couldn't you train your own people?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
We are too few besides the main drivers in the
lower levels, where my people are forbidden to go.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
No.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
It would mean that both our peoples would have to
work together, our differences and courage, rather than deny it
can be done.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
You showed me, You can show others. I can show them,
can you. I'll see the captain himself. I have an
uncle on the central board. I'll tell him what I've
seen here.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
And do you think he'll believe you?
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Send one of your people with me.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
That's asking a good deal.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
I'm risking a good deal by going back.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Very well, Bobo will go with you.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
He can't talk.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
There would be no need for talk. I will write
a message guaranteeing safe conduct for a group of unarmed
scientists to visit the main control room. Bobo will take
you safely through our turritory. Right. What happens when you
reach your own level? It is up to you.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
One moment?
Speaker 6 (22:21):
Yes, what do you Hugh?
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Quick? Uncle Edison, but dismute He's harmless. Please? 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.
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You can arrange it.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
I don't understand, Uncle, Listen to me.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
The ship is moving. I can prove it. Do you
understand there is a purpose in the ship.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I don't understand what you're babbling.
Speaker 3 (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 a 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 you. Very well.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I'll speak to the captain.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
I'll try.
Speaker 8 (23:31):
And you see, mister Land that you saw this with
your own eyes.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
I swear it, Captain, I swear it on the word
of Jordan.
Speaker 8 (23:36):
Let me see that paper again. Hmm do you think, menderest.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
I don't know, sir. It might be a trick.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
I guarantee you safe conduct.
Speaker 8 (23:46):
If these things there is, mister Hurland reports them. Would
pay the risk a few lives.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
A man is a convicted herita.
Speaker 8 (23:52):
Still, we mustn't discount his word entirely. He has a
safe conduct. A mutant rist, it's life coming with him.
I think we might investigate.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
You will do it.
Speaker 8 (24:02):
I'll have an expedition outfitted. Dismissed, Miss Darling.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Thank you, sir, Thank you. Captain don.
Speaker 8 (24:15):
Se you'll make the necessary arrangements for an expedition.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
I trust you understand perfectly, sir, perfectly. You better bought
your man.
Speaker 9 (24:35):
Here.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
This is the spot control. I see no welcoming party
of mutants.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
There will be none.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
The leader will meet you inside the main control room.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
You don't say, and just where is this main control room?
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Beyond that door?
Speaker 2 (24:49):
I see, all right? Man, ready arms?
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Why do you ready arms?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
In case of ambush?
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Ambush? Don't you think they could have ambushed you on
the way up here a good deal more easily, nor, mister, and.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
I think you're a murty lover. They have a place
in the converter for that time.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Tenant are you man?
Speaker 2 (25:06):
No, mister Harlan.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
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. That's very hurt. Lieutenant.
I warn you, these people have acted in good faith.
If you break all your eyes to open the control room,
mister Harley, no, not until those guns are dismounted.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
As leader of this expedition, I order you to call him.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
I refuse. You cannot do this thing. This says no
way to keep the truth very well if you refuse,
Oh there, mutant, come out. For Jordan's sake, lieutenants the
comfort Newton.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Open the door, please.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Jordan, don't let anything happen.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Please door, it's opening, pretty man, someone's coming out.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Look at his legs.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Horrible, steady, he's walking toward this.
Speaker 8 (25:58):
I can't stands.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Look out, No, you fool to tell him you come
the rest of them, fire.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Patould take them a lesson.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
I won't forget all right, man, inside the room oil.
Then you're under arrest as a conspirator in this ambush. Ambush,
you fool, you blind, stupid fool.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Well enough have you been inside this place before? Yes?
What's all this machinery?
Speaker 3 (26:45):
These are the controls he would have used to steer
the ship.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
He's gone out of his mind, Lieutenant steer the ship?
Speaker 6 (26:53):
Who the leader?
Speaker 3 (26:54):
The one you killed? This ugly mutant, This ugly mutant
happened to be a man 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 all.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Not listening to these raving.
Speaker 6 (27:09):
Cause your ears.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Shut your minds against the conscience that tells you what's
wrong to kill, what tells you that your need of
the oregon only proves your inadequacy to yourself. Shut him up,
don't listen, No man, you can't shut your ears. My
word sting you. You cannot shut your mind, and you
cannot shut your arm.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Don't David, the roof it's moving back.
Speaker 10 (27:35):
Look, let the vision of this confound your ignorance and
blind your eyes. This is the heritage you tried to
stifle in your own breast. This is the heritage of
stars and open skies for which men have yearned for centuries.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Tried to destroy this, and you will only destroy yourselves.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Then the heroding.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Kill me if you choose.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
But I say to you that.
Speaker 9 (28:12):
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 4 (28:30):
This is your heritage. Look you pull the universe.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Tell you have just heard another adventure into the unknown
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the concluding broadcast in the current series of Dimension X.
If you are interested in the continuation of this series,
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Speaker 3 (29:34):
Today.
Speaker 12 (29:34):
Dimension AX has transcribed Universe written for radio by George Leffertson,
based on a story by Robert Heinlein.
Speaker 8 (29:41):
Beaches.
Speaker 12 (29:42):
In the cast were Mason Adams as Hugh and Peter
Capel as Gregory. Your host was Norman Rose. Music by
Bert Berman, engineaire Bill Chambers. Sound created by Manny Siegel,
Max Russell and West Conan. Dimension Ax is produced by
William Welch and directed by Edward King at Archie Gar
Cordener tangles with Tulula Bankhead on The Big Show.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
M
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 loneliness came a longing. Out of the longing.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Came a vision.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Out of the dream came of planning, and out of
the planning came decision. Jordan's hand was lifted and the
ship was born.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
You look out, are you all right? Yes? It missed me.
What was it? A mutant with a slingshot? I think
a dashed down that passageway. You want to go after it,
so well, never catch it, Alan, It's probably twelve decks
a bus by now. I didn't think they ever came
down this.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
The trolls usually get them before they reach this level.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Ah, they get more daring with each generation. And this
one looked like a female.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Male or female. It might have killed us.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I told you this trip was pure foolishness, climbing twenty
four decked levels to hear a crazy old man rave.
We're almost there in a compartment X fifteen, level twenty four.
This is the place. This area smells as if it
hadn't been visited by a sanitation crew for generations. Part
of the ship is almost deserted. Yes, this is the
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compartment of John the Witness.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Who are you?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
My name is Hugh Hoylan. I'm a cadet from the
Scientist Barrack. This is my friend Alan Mahoney.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
What do you want of John the Witness?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Only to talk?
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Are you a believer in Jordan's naturally? I have heard that.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
There are the les among the younger scientists who doubt
the word of Jordan's it's.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
A doubt, it's death. We're not heretics. And I have
brought a gift of tobacco grown on.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
The richest level.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
It smells good, I assure you it's the best.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Wait here, ratsnessh what the devil do you think he
can tell you?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I don't know now, hush a well, you are John
the Witness.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
I am good eating to you.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I am Hugh Hoyland. This is my friend Alan Mahoney.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
And what brings a gentleman of the scientist's class to
my humble department.
Speaker 3 (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 3 (02:49):
I am anxious to hear the word as Jordan spoke it.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
Why you see.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Among the young scientists, there have been some who talk against.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
The regulations, against such heresips.
Speaker 3 (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 6 (03:16):
What shall I say to you?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I wish to hear the word from the mouth of
one who knows that I may become more convinced.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
You have gift for the witness.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
The finest tobacco.
Speaker 7 (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.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
In the beginning.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
Was only Jordan's thinking, his lonely thoughts. 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
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the planning came decision. Jordan's hand was lifted and the
ship was born. Mile after mile of good compartments, tank
after tank for golden corn ladder and passage, door and locker,
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fit for the needs of the yet unborn. He looked
on his work and found it pleasing meet for a
race that.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
Was yet to be. He thought of man, and man
came into.
Speaker 7 (04:57):
Be and chudge is not and search for the keys.
Men untamed would shame his maker. Men unruled would spoil
the plan. So Jordan made the regulations, some to speak
and some to listen.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
Order came to the ranks of men.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
Crew he created to work at the stations, scientists to
guide the plan over them. All he created captain, made
him judge of the race of men. Thus it was
in the golden age. These are the true words, as
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my father's father taught them.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
But what are the strange beast like people on the
upper levels of the ship. Surely Jordan did not create them.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Jordan is perfect. All below him perfection. You have heard
of the legend of Huff.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I have heard that he mutinied against Jordan.
Speaker 7 (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 3 (06:23):
One more question, witness speak, What is the ship?
Speaker 6 (06:29):
The ship is a great sphere.
Speaker 7 (06:33):
Twenty five kilometers wide and one hundred levels deep.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I know that, But what about the upper levels?
Speaker 7 (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 8 (06:58):
So I've heard.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
But something troubles me, something which prompted my coming here.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
Here is my son.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
What lies beyond the ship?
Speaker 6 (07:08):
What?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
What lies beyond the ship?
Speaker 6 (07:10):
This handsome I will not permit such talk.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
The ship is complete, The ship is universal, The ship
is everywhere.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
The ship.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
You're muttering that I was of a frightened old man.
They answer nothing. You question the world. I think you lie.
Speaker 7 (07:25):
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 strip.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
You threaten me for Jordan's So you think I fear
this dried figure of a man.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Too, Sir.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
My friend is impetuous.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
He doesn't understand.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
I might be persuaded to forget the substantial gill pig.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
You come on in the fight of the soul called
holy man offends me.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
No, you shall not leave.
Speaker 3 (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 6 (07:58):
Now, no closer very well?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Then, who have.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Got him?
Speaker 6 (08:07):
Is he dead?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I don't know?
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Come on here, we've got to get out again. Now
where we can't go back? They feed us into the conversion.
What's that? The old woman must have turned in and alarm?
Come on the patrol O be here in no time.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Where can we go?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
The upper levels but the mute.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
We'll have to take our chance.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
That's the patrol.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
We've got to climb, actually down the cart wi.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
The ladder.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
She wait, how far are we from the outside walls
with the deck?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
About two miles? Mutant territory.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Come on, we'll try his pass away.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
You me what?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I don't know?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
I feels if being watched it's your imagination. Perhaps it's
only ships right. Get a grip on yourself.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
It was as big as a dog.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Come on, I can't drag myself much. We've got to
find a compartment with water. If only you hadn't asked
him that stupid questions. I know he was going over that.
Why did you do it? Why? 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. But who were you to question
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the ways of Jordan? When you asked me to go
with you to visit the Witness? I thought you wanted
spiritual help. I never dreamed this, Sorry, Alan, I couldn't
foresee this. I didn't know what Wait, wait a minute,
what another ship?
Speaker 9 (09:55):
Right?
Speaker 10 (09:55):
No?
Speaker 3 (09:57):
I thought I saw something move, I didn't see anything.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Maybe my eyes are going ben still.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
You? Oh?
Speaker 8 (10:20):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Where where am i? What are you get away from me? Alan?
Speaker 4 (10:32):
A nice pay away from me? Alan? Alan Killingbo?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Not yet?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Who are you forgive my friend Bobo? Like so many
of my people, he's rather impetuous. Where members of the
so called super race of concerned?
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Who are you? What place is this?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
As you can guess from my leg, I'm a mutant?
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Where is Alan?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Your friend is dead? I was not able to restrain
my people in time to save him.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Why don't you destroy me and get it over with?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
We do not care for pleasure, mister Hoyland, only when necessary.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
You know my name.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I read your identification tag.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Who are you mutants can't read?
Speaker 2 (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 3 (11:29):
Why do you live like animals?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
We would rather live like free animals than like regimented
slaves as you do.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
I've heard that you practice cannibalism.
Speaker 2 (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.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Why this one? I've never seen a creature like him?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Bobo and unfortunate. He was born without the power of speech.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
How can you tolerate a monstrosity?
Speaker 2 (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 violates the regulations
the word of Jordan's Mister Island, your people are really
primitive and barbaric.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
You dare say that to me?
Speaker 2 (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 3 (12:31):
I won't give you any information, Bobo.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
I want mister Harland in my cabin. Please mind you
to go quietly, mister Harland. Bobo has a hatred of
superior beings, which is unfortunate, but quite understand. Proceed and
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to mister Darland.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
This is where you live.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yes, but you have books stolen from your libraries.
Speaker 11 (13:14):
Mister Land, Compton's astrophysics, the philosophy of it is still
a navigation celestial mechanics.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
You have read these, um most of them?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Why did you bring me? What do you intend to do?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Do you believe in Jordan, mister Island?
Speaker 3 (13:38):
There is no other belief.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
And the trip I suppose you believe in the trip to.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Well, what else is there to believe? When you die,
your remains are fed to the converter and your soul
makes the trip. And where does the trip take you?
Why to Centaurus of course?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Huh huh? And well what is Staurus?
Speaker 3 (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 is happy,
and there's always good eating. It's mythological, of course, and
you'll believe this. The peasants believe it literally, but many
of the younger scientists like myself know that it's figurative, symbolic.
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Why do you ask.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Didn't it ever occur to you, mister hornand that the
trip is exactly what your peasants believe it is, that
the ship and all the crew were actually going someplace.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Movie, the ship can't go anywhere. It already is everywhere.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Imagine a place bigger than the ship, much bigger, with
a ship inside it moving inside.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
But there can't be any place bigger than the ship.
There wouldn't be any place for it to be.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Oh, for's sake, Thusten, you know the lowest level. Yes,
if you stop digging a hole in the low lowest level,
where would that hole go?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Where would that hold? Oh? No, it's forbidden to think that.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
You thought, where would it go?
Speaker 3 (15:08):
No? No, I can't think about it.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Obo bobo. We're going to take mister Harland to the place.
Where are we 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 3 (15:23):
You can't make me.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I think we can.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Not.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Shall we proceed peacefully? Or shall I have Bobo persuade
you open the door? Bobo inside?
Speaker 6 (15:59):
What place is this?
Speaker 2 (16:01):
This, mister Hoyland, is the main control room? When, mister Holland,
you're trembling.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
It isn't true. There is no such place except in mythology.
Speaker 2 (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 3 (16:19):
But it's it's nothing but a huge room with an
instrument panel.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
What did you expect?
Speaker 3 (16:25):
How do you know this is the main control.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
See these instruments using them to navigate the many hundreds
of years ago, actually steered the ship on a voyd.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
I don't understand that.
Speaker 2 (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 3 (16:55):
Nothing but a huge shield?
Speaker 2 (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, but it is there.
It is a reality, and ultimately you must accept it.
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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 4 (17:29):
It's flying back.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Coastop choice. Well, what am I seeing? The universe is
the Harland, The universe and all its beauty, the.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Stars, the planets.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
The suns, moons, and the constellations. This is your heritage,
mister Harland, the heritage.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
You'll be too stupid to see you but it can't be.
The ship is the Uliver. There is nothing but the sheep.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
But there it is. You see it before, your eyes
spread out like a canopy of glawy. You still deny it?
Answer me, mister Hoyland. Do you deny it?
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Oh, I can't. They lie?
Speaker 6 (18:38):
They lie to us.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Good?
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Why did you close the ship?
Speaker 2 (18:49):
You will see it again if you're not afraid.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
I'm not afraid.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Many times I've shown this to others of your people
who we captured, and though they saw it before their
very eyes, they will not believe it.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Tell me about it, Tell me about the ship, about
the universe. What are these things? How did this come about?
Speaker 2 (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 as 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 3 (19:54):
How do you know these things?
Speaker 2 (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 3 (20:40):
Why have you told me this? Why have you brought
me here? You could have killed me?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Can you guess?
Speaker 3 (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? A miracle? Almost?
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The crew would have to be trained, many people, each
skilled in a certain duty. Couldn't you train your own people?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
We are too few besides the main drivers in the
lower levels, where my people are forbidden to go.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
No.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
It would mean that both our peoples would have to
work together, our differences and courage, rather than deny it
can be done.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
You showed me, You can show others. I can show them,
can you. I'll see the captain himself. I have an
uncle on the central board. I'll tell him what I've
seen here.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
And do you think he'll believe you?
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Send one of your people with me.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
That's asking a good deal.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
I'm risking a good deal by going back.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Very well, Bobo will go with you.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
He can't talk.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
There would be no need for talk. I will write
a message guaranteeing safe conduct for a group of unarmed
scientists to visit the main control room. Bobo will take
you safely through our turritory. Right. What happens when you
reach your own level? It is up to you.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
One moment?
Speaker 6 (22:21):
Yes, what do you Hugh?
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Quick? Uncle Edison, but dismute He's harmless. Please? 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.
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You can arrange it.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
I don't understand, Uncle, Listen to me.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
The ship is moving. I can prove it. Do you
understand there is a purpose in the ship.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I don't understand what you're babbling.
Speaker 3 (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 a 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 you. Very well.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I'll speak to the captain.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
I'll try.
Speaker 8 (23:31):
And you see, mister Land that you saw this with
your own eyes.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
I swear it, Captain, I swear it on the word
of Jordan.
Speaker 8 (23:36):
Let me see that paper again. Hmm do you think, menderest.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
I don't know, sir. It might be a trick.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
I guarantee you safe conduct.
Speaker 8 (23:46):
If these things there is, mister Hurland reports them. Would
pay the risk a few lives.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
A man is a convicted herita.
Speaker 8 (23:52):
Still, we mustn't discount his word entirely. He has a
safe conduct. A mutant rist, it's life coming with him.
I think we might investigate.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
You will do it.
Speaker 8 (24:02):
I'll have an expedition outfitted. Dismissed, Miss Darling.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Thank you, sir, Thank you. Captain don.
Speaker 8 (24:15):
Se you'll make the necessary arrangements for an expedition.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
I trust you understand perfectly, sir, perfectly. You better bought
your man.
Speaker 9 (24:35):
Here.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
This is the spot control. I see no welcoming party
of mutants.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
There will be none.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
The leader will meet you inside the main control room.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
You don't say, and just where is this main control room?
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Beyond that door?
Speaker 2 (24:49):
I see, all right? Man, ready arms?
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Why do you ready arms?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
In case of ambush?
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Ambush? Don't you think they could have ambushed you on
the way up here a good deal more easily, nor, mister, and.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
I think you're a murty lover. They have a place
in the converter for that time.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Tenant are you man?
Speaker 2 (25:06):
No, mister Harlan.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
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. That's very hurt. Lieutenant.
I warn you, these people have acted in good faith.
If you break all your eyes to open the control room,
mister Harley, no, not until those guns are dismounted.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
As leader of this expedition, I order you to call him.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
I refuse. You cannot do this thing. This says no
way to keep the truth very well if you refuse,
Oh there, mutant, come out. For Jordan's sake, lieutenants the
comfort Newton.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Open the door, please.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Jordan, don't let anything happen.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Please door, it's opening, pretty man, someone's coming out.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Look at his legs.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Horrible, steady, he's walking toward this.
Speaker 8 (25:58):
I can't stands.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Look out, No, you fool to tell him you come
the rest of them, fire.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Patould take them a lesson.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
I won't forget all right, man, inside the room oil.
Then you're under arrest as a conspirator in this ambush. Ambush,
you fool, you blind, stupid fool.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Well enough have you been inside this place before? Yes?
What's all this machinery?
Speaker 3 (26:45):
These are the controls he would have used to steer
the ship.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
He's gone out of his mind, Lieutenant steer the ship?
Speaker 6 (26:53):
Who the leader?
Speaker 3 (26:54):
The one you killed? This ugly mutant, This ugly mutant
happened to be a man 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 all.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Not listening to these raving.
Speaker 6 (27:09):
Cause your ears.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Shut your minds against the conscience that tells you what's
wrong to kill, what tells you that your need of
the oregon only proves your inadequacy to yourself. Shut him up,
don't listen, No man, you can't shut your ears. My
word sting you. You cannot shut your mind, and you
cannot shut your arm.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Don't David, the roof it's moving back.
Speaker 10 (27:35):
Look, let the vision of this confound your ignorance and
blind your eyes. This is the heritage you tried to
stifle in your own breast. This is the heritage of
stars and open skies for which men have yearned for centuries.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Tried to destroy this, and you will only destroy yourselves.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Then the heroding.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Kill me if you choose.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
But I say to you that.
Speaker 9 (28:12):
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 4 (28:30):
This is your heritage. Look you pull the universe.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Tell you have just heard another adventure into the unknown
(28:56):
world of the future. The world of this has been
the concluding broadcast in the current series of Dimension X.
If you are interested in the continuation of this series,
please write and tell us so your ideas and suggestions
(29:20):
will be given the most thoughtful consideration in determining the
future of this program. Just drop a letter or postcard
to Dimension X Cara of NBC Radio City, New York.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Today.
Speaker 12 (29:34):
Dimension AX has transcribed Universe written for radio by George Leffertson,
based on a story by Robert Heinlein.
Speaker 8 (29:41):
Beaches.
Speaker 12 (29:42):
In the cast were Mason Adams as Hugh and Peter
Capel as Gregory. Your host was Norman Rose. Music by
Bert Berman, engineaire Bill Chambers. Sound created by Manny Siegel,
Max Russell and West Conan. Dimension Ax is produced by
William Welch and directed by Edward King at Archie Gar
Cordener tangles with Tulula Bankhead on The Big Show.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
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