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"I hate to leave this meeting -- it's great stuff" remarked Seaton as he / flashed down to the torpedo room at Fenor's command to send recall / messages to all outlying vessels, "but this machine isn't designed to / let me be in more than two places at once. Wish it were -- maybe after / this fracas is over we'll be able to incorporate something like that / into it."
The chief operator touched a lever and the chair upon which he sat, with / all its control panels, slid rapidly across the floor toward an / apparently blank wall. As he reached it, a port opened a metal scroll / appeared, containing the numbers and last reported positions of all / Fenachrone vessels outside the detector zone, and a vast magazine of / torpedoes came up through the floor, with an automatic loader to place a / torpedo under the operator's hand the instant its predecessor had been / launched.