Chapter 13

"The IP Appropriations Board won't give you what you need, Commander, for real improvements on the IP ships?" "They won't believe Kendall. Therefore they won't." "What did you mean about gamma rays, Buck?" "Mercury will stop them and the Commander here intends to have the refitted ships built so that the engine room and control room are one, and completely surrounded by the mercury tanks. The men will be protected against the gamma rays." "Won't the rays affect the power stored in the mercury--perhaps release it?" …