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Here on Earth the density of steel is 490 pounds per cubic foot.

Steel is mostly composed of iron and carbon. It contains small amounts of

manganese and even smaller amounts of silicon, phosphorous,

oxygen, sulfur, and other elements.

God, I have another question.

Yes, Emma?

What is above the rain mist in the sky?

Avoid the Old Village because of the Sickness.

You must always, always avoid the old village.

But of the hundred boys and thirty girls that live on Earth,

none have ever been sick.

Avoid the old Village,

You must always always avoid the old village.

Avoid the old Village because of the sickness.

You must always always avoid the old village.

I know God is hiding something.

And the answer to that something,

is somewhere in the ruins of this village.

If I don't find it today. I'll keep on looking till I do.

Earthmen everywhere! Come to Rythar

the beautiful green planet of the Sirian System.

There you can have all the luxuries of Earth

without any of the crowding.

Live in a primeval paradise and discover your dreams.

What is Rythar and why would anyone want

to leave my beautiful planet Earth?

I am not living on Earth,

I am on this is planet called Rythar.

Everything God has told us is a lie.

A lie!

What is a planet?

The word has not meaning.

But, but that's not true.

God does not lie.

Only men lie.

Then you're not God,

you're just.....you're just....... a man.

All Settlement occupants assemble right

now in main court yard.

Please get up as quickly as you can

and assemble outside in the main court yard.

Carli Howard

Jenny Welsh

Janet Hansen

Emma Dante

All the occupants of the Settlement

have been accounted for.

God or Man, you're too late.

I already know your secret.

But don't worry it'll be our secret.

Ours alone. Just you......and... me.

Humming

Crying

Sobbing

Jenny?

Jenny what's wrong?

Josh has taken Yuki as a wife.

But isn't Josh already with Dinah?

Because of the 30 men to 70 women ratio

some couples are doubling up.

I was going to be his second wife, but now......

Sobbing

Don't worry.

You're too lovely to be alone. You'll find someone.

Its very important that all the soil samples

are packed and ready to go by 5:45 PM.

When does the God-Transport take off?

It leaves at 6 PM.

As long as the daily ore shipments are aboard,

God is happy.

Is there a night shipment as well.

No the Transport leaves

every evening and returns each morning

Are you sure you want to do this.

Its a boring job.

Its much easier and more fun to collect ore samples.

And who knows you might meet a guy,

who wants another wife.

That will never happen here.

No, no its OK.

This is, this is right for me.

You're sure now!

No no, its OK. I want to be closer to God.

Great. Gets me off the hook.

Be in tomorrow first thing and you're on your owm.

If you have any questions just let me know.

Oh God! God, please don't punish me, please.

My dear young lady, this is the men's ward.

I'm sorry. I didn't know.

You must be a new patient.

I'd better find my own ward.

I hadn't heard they were bringing in new patients today.

I'll see you in the sun room?

And you'll tell me all the news,

everything their doing back on Earth.

I haven't been there in a year.

Strange sound

I'll see you in the sun room. You'll tell me all the news back on Earth...

A woman here?

Does God already have a mate?

When are you leaving, Dick?

In about forty minutes. They're sending an auto-pickup.

Oh, no!

Now don't start worrying.

They have got the bugs out of it by this time.

The auto-pickups are entirely trustworthy.

Sure, that's what the army says.

In theory they should be even more reliable then.

I wish you'd wait for the hospital shuttle

And miss the chance to address Congress this year?

We've worked too long for this; I don't want to muff it now.

We've all the statistical proof we need,

even to convince those pinch penny halfwits

During the past eight years we've handled more than a thousand cases up here.

On Earth they were pronounced incurable;

we've sent better than eighty per cent back in good health

after an average stay of fourteen months.

No medical man has ever questioned the efficiency

of cosmic radiation and a reduced atmospheric gravity, Dick.

It's just our so-called statesmen, always yapping about the budget.

But this time we have the cost problem licked, too.

For a year and a half the ore they send up from Rythar

has paid for our entire operation.

I didn't know that.

We've kept it under wraps,

so the politicians wouldn't cut our appropriations.

It isn't right, for them not to send a piloted shuttle after you, Dick.

It isn't dignified. You're our assistant medical director

This is not God's house.

This is a hospital for Earthmen.

And it is paid for by the ore we send up from Rythar.

In a way Rythar is being enslaved and exploited by Earth.

Why weren't we told the truth?

I must return to Rythar and tell the others what I've discovered.

Voices and footsteps approaching

I am a beautiful young woman.

Certainly more attractive then the Earth Women I have seen here.

I have nothing, nothing to fear from them

Signed by the Commander in Charge, Guardian Station.

Addressed to....the Congress of the World government!

On Rythar we have soil samples taken from an area covering ten thousand square miles.

We find nothing that could be remotely harmful to human life.

Those are the samples God is always asking for.

Are they planning to setup a hospital on Rythar

I don't like the idea of sick

discarded Earth men overrunning my beautiful home planet.

The original Rythar colony survived for a year.

The Sickness developed only after

the first harvest of Rytharian-grown food.

The botanical cycle of Rythar must be examined.

We shall have to send survey teams to the surface;

that will require much larger appropriations.

The metal immunization suits, which must, of course,

be destroyed after each expedition?

What could this mean

I must have come to the wrong room.

Indeed! Everyone knows this is command headquarters. Who are you?

My name is Emma Dante. I came up in the God Transport from Rythar.

Rythar!

Why is she afraid?

If they all react like that...... They won't let me leave.

Communications Chatter

Intercom Chatter

Distant Voice: Go, go, go!

Distant Voice: Watch my back. Go!

From Rythar, a woman from Rythar?

And we've blasted the communication center.

We've no way of sending the warning back to Earth.

Door Opens

Approaching Footsteps

You're still all right, Dick,

She hasn't been here long enough to... We don't know that.

We don't know how it spreads or how quickly. We can't take the chance.

Then, then we've no choice?

None. These have been standing emergency orders for twenty years.

We always faced the possibility that one of them would escape.

If we'd been allowed to use a different policy of education?

But the politicians wouldn't permit that.

The Station has to be destroyed,

and we must die with it.

Couldn't we wait and make sure?

It works too fast. None of us would be able to do the job-afterward.

No, no! Scream...........

SCREAM..........

Emergency Alarm

He said they would destroy the station. Because, because I was aboard?

What possible harm could I do them?

It just made no sense. What was wrong with them?

Colonies in other solar systems

have been Earths most effective strategy for over population.

This is the foundation........

Finding the Planet Rythar in the Sirian System.

Rythar, is one of a score of colonies established by Earth.

The atmosphere and gravity of Rythar duplicated that of Earth

The government of Earth originally planned a migration of ten million persons.

But after twelve months the survey colony was

destroyed by an infection

which has never been identified.

It is called simply the Sickness.

The origin of this plague is unknown.

No adult in the survey colony survived;

children born on Rythar are themselves immune,

but are carriers of the Sickness.

The first rescue team sent to save them

died within eight hours.

No human being, aside from these native-born children,

has ever survived the Sickness.

That's why they destroyed themselves.

It wasn't madness, but the courage of the few

to save their civilization from the sickness.

The sickness that I carry

To help the children of Rythar,

Scientists built the Guardian Space Station.

Sealed in metal immunization suits,

volunteers had descended to the plague world

and reared the surviving children of the colonists

until they were old enough to look out for themselves.

The answer house had been set up as an instructional device.

As nearly as possible, the scientists in charge attempted to create

a normal social situation for the plague carriers.

They could never be allowed to leave Rythar,

but when they matured enough to know the truth,

Rythar could be integrated into the colonial system.

If they had only told us the truth,

I would not be a poison arrow pointed at the heart of civilization.

You are not Dr. Dick Jameson of the Guardian Space Station.

Please identify yourself and your business on the Earth

to Guardian Station auto transport

Please identify yourself, or you will be fined.

Failure to identify yourself before landing on US soil

can incur a penalty of 1K credits.

Please identify yourself immediately or you will be so charged

Can I, can I speak to someone?

Identify yourself immediately.

Please I want to speak to someone. It's very important.

Identify yourself or you will be charged

Direct Human relations here Miss, how can I help you.

Its very important that I speak to someone in authority

I have something very important. A matter of life a death.

Yes Miss, well I can help you.

No, no, no you can't.

You have to get me someone in charge. Before I land.

This is a matter of life and death

It will kill everyone.

Very well Miss. I'll get you someone in charge.

Good afternoon young lady.

I am Congressional Planetary Senator Marshall Allen Brieson,

please let me help you.

I am Emma Dante. I am one of the surviving children from the planet Rythar.

I carry the sickness that will kill you and every one on Earth.

Listen to me for two minutes more before you blast my ship.

I rode the god-transport up to the Guardian Station because

I had to know what was above the rain mist.

In the answer house

you would not tell us. Now I understand why.

We were children. You... you were waiting for us to mature.

And that is the mistake you made; that

blindness nearly destroyed your civilization.

You will have to build another Guardian Station.

This time don't hide anything from us because we're children.

The truth makes us mature,

not illusions or taboos.

It is easier to face a fact

than to have to give up a dream we've been taught to believe.

Tell your children the truth when they ask for it.

Tell us, please.

We can adjust to it

We're just as human as you are.

I'm ready,

send up your warships.

Des....destroy me!

Send them quickly! You must not let me land!

Why don't you do something?

What are you waiting for?

Gasp!

No! Don't come in here

Emma I understand. Please allow me to explain.

For ten years Dr. Jameson

has been telling us from the Guardian Station

that we should adopt a different educational policy toward Rythar.

Your scare broadcast was clever,

but we're used to Jameson's tricks.

He'll be removed from office for this,

if I have anything to say about it.

Gasp! You didn't believe me?

Of course not. If a plague carrier escaped from Rythar,

we would have heard about it long before this.

The trouble with you scientists is you don't

grant the rest of us any common sense.

And Jameson's the worst of the lot.

He's always contended that the sociologists

should determine our Rytharian policy,

not the elected representatives of the people.

Let's have no more dramatics, please.

You don't know how fortunate you are, young lady.

If the politicians were as addle-witted as you scientists claim we are,

we might have believed that nonsense and blasted your ship out of the sky.

You scientists have to give up the notion that you're our guardians;

we're quite able to look out for ourselves.