 Who were the horde members?
They were something more—and something less—they were, in short, humanity's hopes for survival! She seemed to be restless to end her fool's errand here, two hundred light years from the waiting hordes on Earth. Earth had ordered him to detour here, after leaving his load of deep-sleep stored colonists on Official World 71, to check on any sign of Hennessy. Now the three were streaking at fantastic speed to a spot near the ship, to hover excitedly above something that moved there. Shaggy heads, brute bodies vaguely man-like! One seemed to be almost eight feet tall, leading the others directly toward the spacesuited cadets. Then Gwayne spotted them; surrounded by the menacing horde.
 Hennessy’s crew and the children of the exploring party
 Angry aliens  Aliens pretending to be Hennessy’s crew and the children of the exploring party  Lonely aliens  Hennessy’s crew and the children of the exploring party