THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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second ship, on which work had not yet been started. The one under
construction seemed to be of cruciform design, like an old-fashioned
pre-contragravity winged airplane. The design puzzled everybody at
Barathrum. Yves Jacquemont thought that perhaps there would be decks in
the cross-arm which would be used when the ship was running on combined
lift and drive.

"Well, till we can get a shipyard going on Koshchei and build some real
spaceships, there are going to be some rare-looking objects traveling
around the Alpha System. I wonder what the next one's going to look
like?a flying sky-scraper?" Conn said.

"What I wonder," Yves Jacquemont replied, "is where all the old
interplanetary ships got to. There must have been hundreds of them
running back and forth from here to Janicot and Koshchei and Jurgen and
Horvendile during the War. They must have gone somewhere."