 What is the Carstar thing?
VOYAGE TO FAR N'JURD By KRIS NEVILLE Illustrated by MACK [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Galaxy Magazine April 1963. So they made a few changes in their way of life—and many in their way of death! I "I don't see why we have to be here," a crewman said. An' iffen I aims ta talk...." "So he do; an' I'll tell ya, hit shore is time he's a-gittin' hyere. The crewman to his left bent over and whispered, "I'll bet he's gonna tell us it's gonna be another postponement." He's th' one that's a-keepin' us all from our Reward, an' I jest hope he does heyar me, so he'll know I'm a-gittin' mighty tyird uv waitin'." While the priest stood before the speaker's rostrum waiting for silence, the captain reached back with great dignity and scratched his right shoulder blade. Nestir, the priest, was dressed out in the full ceremonial costume of office. His fez perched jauntily on his shiny, shaven head. The baldness was symbolic of diligent mental application to abstruse points of doctrine. Cotian exentiati pablum re overum est : "Grass grows not in the middle of a busy thoroughfare." The baldness was the result of the diligent application of an effective depilatory. His blood-red cloak had been freshly cleaned for the occasion, and it rustled around him in silky sibilants. And then, more loudly, "Men!" "It was about the Casting Off. "Three, you will recall, were wise. When Prophet was at Meizque, they came to him and said, 'Prophet, we are afflicted. The Prophet looked at them and did see that it was true. Then he blessed them and took out His knife and lay open their sores. Calex i pundendem hoy , my children. 'Secrecy makes for a long life,' as it says in the Jarcon ."
 Someone was killed.
 Someone was killed.  A person attempted to avoid duty by hastening to the Reward.  There was questionable intent.  He had a very pretty wife.