The Renegades of Pern

by Anne McCaffrey

  ‘That is the function of this apparatus.’

  ‘Let us begin at the beginning then, shall we?’ Master Robinton asked.

  ‘That is a correct procedure,’ Aivas replied, and what had been a dark panel suddenly became illuminated with a diagram that those in the room identified as similar to one found in the flying ship Jaxom had discovered. Only this diagram had such depth and perspective that it appeared three-dimensional, giving the awed observers the feeling that they were hovering in space, an unthinkable distance away from their sun. ‘When Mankind first discovered the third planet of the sun Rukbat in the Sagittarian Sector of space…’

  The End