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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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Various
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His
name
was
Cor,
he
said,
and
he
was
in
truth
the
monarch
of
this
strange
realm.
His
people
had
come
from
the
one-time
planet
of
Vada,
far
distant
in
the
universe.
A
thousand
years
ago,
this
planet
had
been
doomed
by
the
approach
of
an
alien
star.
Their
great
scientist,
Ravv,
had
met
the
emergency
by
inventing
the
disc,
into
whose
construction
they
had
poured
all
their
resources.
The
pick
of
their
populace
had
been
salvaged
on
this
giant
life-raft.
The
rest
had
perished
when
that
destroying
star
had
crashed
down
on
the
doomed
Vada.
Since
then
these
survivors
and
their
descendants
had
been
voyaging
through
space
on
their
marvelous
disc.
For
hundreds
of
years
they
had
given
no
thought
to
the
future,
content
to
drift
on
and
on
in
the
interstellar
void,
breathing
an
atmosphere
produced
artificially.
But
at
length
the
inevitable
had
happened.
This
superb
piece
of
mechanism
devised
by
their
super-genius,
Ravv,
was
beginning
to
show
signs
of
wear.
Some
of
its
mighty
engines
were
nearing
the
exhaustion
point.
Either
they
must
soon
find
a
planet
comparable
with
the
one
they
had
once
known,
where
they
could
pause
and
rehabilitate
their
machinery,
or
they
must
disintegrate
and
pass
into
oblivion.
Faced
with
that
crisis,
Cor
had
long
been
seeking
such
a
planet.
He
had
found
it,
at
last,
in
the
earth--and
had
resolved
that
this
was
where
they
were
going
to
alight
and
transplant
the
civilization
of
ancient
Vada,
pending
such
time
as
they
could
take
to
space
again.
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