Perspective - "Hellraizer" (based on the book A. Norton, "Queen of the Sun").

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Written by Dismaster / Unicum
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       Prehistory.


  (Based on books by A. Norton

      "Queen of the Sun")

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  "... We have never been climbed so far beyond the border
posts ... It was strange to see in
gray skies unfamiliar constellations
still no one open, and probably
Are they now will ever
can explore ... "


  I - Captain of the free trader
<Viking> class <Wanderer> John
Vadner. The devil knows why
We put his nose on this lousy planetke ... Had the crew
more cash could be
purchase a license for any nubud planet closer to the center ...
But things have recently
were too crappy, and money
to purchase the rights of trade with the planet critically 
lacking. It was necessary to urgently look for a job,

otherwise, the crew had to permanently leave space ...

  Randomly at one of the planets
Center, we were up for auction
Service surveys. The Free merchant such a case falls, maybe 
once in a lifetime - if you're lucky, it could turn into a 
decent condition. 

  At the auction, even the world class
"Delta" was we can not afford -
usually the initial price for them was not less than twenty 
thousand credo. Class "alpha" and "beta"

immediately bought back the big trade
company class "gamma" - is
rather underdeveloped world - for
They are fighting the company smaller.
Well, the class "delta" - the newly discovered but not yet 
surveyed world - usually the federal prices are at the Free 
trader pocket.


  In total we have accumulated about
fifteen thousand creed, plus
salaries of the crew for a reysvsego about twenty-four 
thousand, hardly enough to even very small planet.


  Class of planets "delta" was
only four, and the first two
They were sold to dealers for a free round sum. Third
Class number "delta" - the starting price for it was twenty
thousand, and she did not bargain for
sense. After a brief
bargaining she got captain
<Golden Lightning> fifty
thousand.

  But we were lucky - number four in the same class was 
announced minimum cost twelve thousand. Since we were trying to 
negotiate a swarthy soldier, but we quickly raised the price to 
twenty-three thousand, and swarthy conceded. 

            . . .


  We flew towards obscurity already neskolno weeks.
Everything we know about the planet, was recorded on video, the 
Service survey. The planet was called "Sedan" and

belonged to the star system
Class 31Ce652. The climate of the planet
was Earth-like and unhealthy
human organisms found nebylo. Occasionally appeared on a video 
destruction ancient buildings, overgrown

local vegetation.

  In addition to Sedan in the system existed four planets, 
which service have proved inadequate to life. Sedan was the 
second planet from the sun, and size slightly larger than

Land.

  The planet, if it has a reasonable life, seemed an ideal
for the free trader, and the only trouble was
that commercial flight in a
distance lasted for months and was accompanied by some risk
for the crew. But this flaw could come to naught if the planet 
would be a worthy source of profit. 

            . . .


  <Viking> slowly approaching
for the purpose of his trip. By
ship's time was about two and a half months after the time we 
were Last frontier post and headed to the other end of the 
galaxy. 

  Spaceship made a few
revolutions around the world, particularly
What was appropriately chosen
terrain for landing. Ship
sat on a spacious site, free from the abundance of this
world vegetation. In the east, clearly visible band of the 
forest, going out to the north. From the south, very close to 
the ship adjoined the small bushes, far to the west of the 
mountain was visible ridge, around which shone crimson aura of 
the setting sun. Until now we have not seen a single 
representative of the local population. 

  The sun was setting over the horizon, and in the night shadows
Harry Nilsson - our on-board engineer - said on the external 
review of some movement. Object flitted in the bushes near the 
ship and immediately disappeared into the darkness. Nilsson 
once told me about this event, and stayed to monitor the 
screens at all night.


  Before the dawn More
Several times it was noticed strange movement around the ship 
and it was quite clear that for We watched. And those who are 
now sat in the shade, we still had to

get in touch and in good
share of luck and intuition, which
abound in every freestyle
merchant, even to make with them
good bargain for
What we are actually here and have arrived.

  Dawn. The crew has already
was on his feet, and Nielson led
"Vigilant" monitoring the external environment, quietly snoring
the entire bridge. What we saw
on the front screen, it was more
than strange. Onboard engineer,
awakened by the bustle around, too
stared at the screen.

  Not near the north, where
just yesterday between the spacecraft and
forest was a large meadow, now
hosted a huge village natives. In the distance could be seen a 
lot of troubled people engaged in their own affairs. I told the 
people - yes, they were people, strange clad creatures with two 
arms, two legs and head, they are clearly

belonged to the human race, is now the most common in the 
galaxy. But how do they got here? After all, it was thought that

All the planets, whose population
were men - a former
Earth colonies that appeared on
kosmoplavaniya dawn, when the whole
Planet worked on the creation of
another giant starship - Ship's Generation "- that
a title he wore then -
and numerous crews, numbering hundreds of families who went to 
look for their homeland. But once the principle has been opened 
giperperehoda - "The road to the stars" - many of those ships 
were found within a radius of only a few parsecs from the Earth 
and were at the stage of developing colonies. Many ships were 
lost in the long journeys, and not

find their stars, but none
fiction spaceship is found for
within that part of the Galaxy
what is called the center of the
Center.

  Around our Viking with a weapon in the hands of a dense ring 
of standing detachment of soldiers. However, it seemed

that they took the ship under
protection, rather than waiting for our appearance as the enemy 
- they were all turned back to the spaceship and none of his 
were not allowed too close.


  To the west, in the open air
building housed a very
similar to the earthly temple of our
video library. Front of the temple to the east of some old man, 
accompanied by two elderly people uttered some words and raised 
his arms toward the sun. 

  Countries, however, was obtained
picture, but it was necessary to undertake
work. I took a supercargo and his assistant (in their job was 
to design a ready trade treaty, account management, as well as 
manual loading and unloading of goods from the ship), we 
captured a a portable linguists and

descended the ladder.

  As soon as we left the airlock, the same old guy that palaver 
Sun together with his entourage headed in our direction. When 
we came, the old man something solemnly in our direction. 
Linguist instantly tuned in the local dialect and translated:

- We welcome you,
of the great gods of stars! Finally
you heard our prayers and descended from heaven to save our 
planet from the Three Devils !"... 

  It would be folly to immediately start talking about trading 
when We believe "gods" stars. Therefore, I decided to start 
learning more from the elders that over Devils they are afraid 
of and how we can help. After all, if not to trade with this 
planet, we can conclude with the natives a good deal and save 
them from all sorts of nightmares. 


   To be continued ...
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