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They came straight down on Eglonsby, on Amaterasu, the _Nemesis_ and the _Space Scourge_ side by side. The radar had picked them up at point-five light-seconds; by this time the whole planet knew they were coming, and nobody was wondering why. Paul Koreff was monitoring at least twenty radio stations, assigning somebody to each one as it was identified. What was coming in was uniformly excited, some panicky, and all in fairly standard Lingua Terra.
Garvan Spasso was perturbed. So, in the communication screen from the _Space Scourge_, was Boake Valkanhayn.