 What was Knof Junior’s plan to defeat the attackers?
If success comes there, a century will have passed before we can return to Earth; friends, relatives, all the generation that launched the Quest ships will be long since dead. Presently Knof Llud switched off that younger voice of his and leaned back, an ironic smile touching his lips. It would be a one-way journey—even if enough fuel remained, there would be little point in returning to Earth after more than forty thousand years. And a pine forest where he and young Knof could go camping, and lie on their backs at night and gaze at the glittering constellations, far away, out of reach....
 Wait for the attackers to make a mistake in anger
 Talk to the attackers  Replenish with fresh crew to fight  Wait for the attackers to make a mistake in anger  Release the gravity impulses