 What was Earth's first Spaceship?
The sight of an Earthman on Vega III, where it was impossible for an outlander to be, brought angry crowds to surround John Crownwall as he strode toward the palace of Viceroy Tronn Ffallk, ruler of Sector XII of the Universal Holy Empire of Sunda. These humanoids had large mouths and sharp teeth, and they unquestionably slavered. If they carried out the threats of their present attitude, Earth would have to send Marshall to replace him. A pair of guards, their purple hides smoothly polished and gleaming with oil, crossed their ceremonial pikes in front of him as he approached the entrance. "Just tell him that a man has arrived from Earth to talk to him. Behind him stood a heavy and pompous appearing Vegan in lordly trappings. "But then I'm told you're an Earthling. "It was only decided yesterday, back on Earth, that I would be the one to make the trip here. What I meant was that I expected someone from Earth to break through our blockade and come here. "If you wanted someone from Earth to come here to see you, why did you put the cordon around Earth? And why did you drop a planet-buster in the Pacific Ocean, and tell us that it was triggered to go off if we tried to use the distorter drive? But you did come, so I can tell you that although I am the leader of one of the mightiest peoples in the Galaxy, whereas there are scarcely six billions of you squatting on one minor planet, we still need each other. There are more inhabited planets in the Galaxy than there are people on your single world. I, personally, rule three hundred trillion people, half of them of my own race. "You upstart Earthlings are a strange and a frightening race," he said. There was even serious discussion of destroying Earth out of hand, while it is still possible. "Your silly little planet was carefully examined at long range in a routine investigation just about fifty thousand years ago. While these creatures could by no means be classed among the intelligent races, there was a general expectation, which we reported to the Sunda, that they would some day come to be numbered among the Servants of the Emperor. "You Earthlings, in defiance of all expectation and all reason, have exploded into space. As an Earthling, you have heard of the details of the first expedition of your people into space, of course?" " Heard about it?" exclaimed Crownwall.
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