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atmosphere at a pressure of one tenth Earth normal. Such an at- mosphere being
maintained inside the Lorr caverns for their human "Servitors", all female,
men being considered too violent and un- trustworthy. The Lorr using their
same cloning techniques on their human servants as they use upon themselves,
the males of their race having been extinct for nearly fifty thousand years! I
feared what these creatures might "do" to me if they thought I might perhaps
be a "danger" to them because of my own knowledge, a fear that I felt
"justified" knowing what I did about them now! And the "visions" that they
drew from my mind were certainly no help as everyone "saw" just what "sort" of
a creature that I was!
After a flight of about a week we had landed inside Mars, a bit of
disappointment here as I thought the Lorr could do better, although the best
spaceships Earth ever built would have taken over a month and exhausted all
their reaction mass for their im- pulse fusion drives in making the trip.
During the trip I had been kept in a state of suspended animation, my every
memory re- corded by means of their "mind-scanner" and then transmitted ahead
of the battle-disc by a coherent radio beam to the TRIAD, the Lorr ruling
council of three Princesses of which Raspa is the head, holding the position
of the First Princess among the Lorr.
This was now my third day on Mars, the first two having been nothing but
biological tests and then an interesting type of "brain-washing" where they
showed me their own history and then my own race's history in comparison.
Needless to say the Lorr were depicted as being noble, wonderful brave
intelligent beings whereas human beings were shown as being warlike,
aggressive, and unable to accept life in a universe where they had to share
their solar system with another race. When you got done seeing all this you
felt like something that had crawled out from underneath some flat rock that
very richly now deserved being "stepped on"!
What was far worst was the way their mind-scanner revealed my own
memories, especially the time when I had as a child used a magnifying glass to
concentrate the burning rays of the sun upon helpless black ants, horribly
burning several of them to death, my memories of this event being displayed on
holographic displays all over the planet so that everyone could see just what
sort of a despicable creature that I truly was! This having a profound effect
upon the Lorr, who are in appearance almost identical to the ants I had so
horribly burned to death as a child! Especial- ly since to the Lorr this
brought back their own racial histories of how millions of their own kind died
a similar fate when their own sun swelled up into a red giant and burned them
all to death! Only a few million of the billion inhabitants of their world be-
ing able to flee aboard the three starships they had managed to construct
before the terrible heat put an end to everything!* * It is of course
interesting to "ponder" what happened to the third Lorr starship which was
sent towards another G-type star.
They had of course shown me their "Exodus", which is to them almost a
sacred event in their history, and I realized then for the first time that
they were not really that unlike us humans! I saw their bravery, their courage
as they fought against time to construct a means where a small portion of
their race might live! Hollowing out small asteroids and installing inside
them a form of anti-gravity space drive far in advance of anything Man ever
built. One such starship now circling the Earth, the other hav- ing been
destroyed in a futile attempt to stop the gigantic comet that nearly destroyed
them in 2047. The Lorr showing me the half a dozen Earth spaceships that had
accompanied it there on their computer generated display, the ships all loaded
with H-bombs to finish off any surviving Lorr after the giant comet hit Mars!
"You are a true example of your race, Lorraine," Raspa said to me, her
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radio voice coming to me by means of the hearing aid type device that is used
to convert Lorr radio speech into sound. The Lorr gathered there in the great
cavern by the thousands like black frozen rocks standing on their stick-like
legs. The utter silence of the numbers uncanny. There were among them a number
of women, clad in the various colored jumpsuits which seem to be the uniform
of those who serve the Lorr. Among them the one called "An'na", whom I
suspected to be the daughter of Darlanis!
"What I did I did as a child, without knowing the evil of my deeds," I
answered. Who thinks of the pain an insect might suf- fer? I remembered once
spraying a number of ants with RAID back a few years ago when they had
infested our patio. I had watched them die, squirming and twisting in agony.
The Lorr had watched "that" part of my memories too. Displayed there before
them on a great glowing screen in full color, as my own eyes had seen it!
"You are a barbarian, of a race of barbarians," Raspa said. "There is
little that can be said in favor of your kind." I sup- posed that it was true.
"Your people without provocation once attempted to exterminate our entire
race," she added, those awful eyes seeming to glow directly into mine. "Were
we not a civi- lized people we would have long ago turned your world into a
ra- dioactive cinder as lifeless as your Moon." I had little doubt that they
had the capability to do it whenever they wished too!
"We are in a way your children. You created us," I pointed out. The Lorr
were responsible for Man's rise to civilization, to his leaving the caves and
building cities. To the lifting of his eyes from the dirt beneath his feet to
the stars above him. In a way the Lorr were "God". They were our "Creator".
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