THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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"All right; let's get at it. I don't know where we'll find shipyards
like these anywhere else, and if we do, things'll probably be as bad
there. We came here to fix things up and start them, didn't we?"

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    XIV

It didn't take as long as Mohammed Matsui expected. They found the
fissionables magazine, and in it plenty of plutonium, each subcritical
slug in a five-hundred-pound collapsium canister. There were
repair-robots, and they only had to replace the cartridges in the power
units of three of them. They sent them inside the collapsium-shielded
death-to-people area?transmitter robots, to relay what the others picked
up through receptors wire-connected with the outside; foremen-robots,
globes a yard in diameter covered[Pg 112] with horns and spikes like