No one knew what would finally happen, but meanwhile Galactic had its contract and everyone was tentatively happy.
II The next day, Dan left in a spacetug thatGalactic was sending on a practice trip through subspace to Porcys.
And Galacticneeds to close the deal fast, or some other outfit, like Trans-Space, may get wind of things and move in.
It occurred to Dan that Galactic was not the only organization interested in Porcys.
He saw the destruction of Atakar, and the capture of the galactic criminals who had depraved that city.
He shared the experiences of his two companions during their introduction to the advanced culture of the Galactic Federation, and he saw snatches of their training at Aldebaran Base.
He was using a protractor, which was divided intoGalactic degrees.
When we had used your radio system to teach a few of you the Universal Galactic tongue, and had managed to get what you call the 'planet-buster' down into the largest of your oceans, he figured we had done our job.
Some of his carvings are being taken back for the Galactic Folk Museum.
It would be very convenient then to have a dominant life-form friendly to the galactic humans and capable of being integrated with the colonists.
It seems to be incapable of developing save under galactic conditions.
Of corroborative testimony, moreover, is the discovery independently resulting from Gill's and Pickering's photographic reviews, that stars of the first type of spectrum largely prevail in the galactic zone of the heavens.
Even thus, the sensitive plate needed some hours to pick out the exceedingly faint stars collected in the galactic clouds.
Admiral Stapleton or no Admiral Stapleton, President of the Galactic Federation or no President of the Galactic Federation, we ought to take over this ship and man the life boats for everyone's good.
His life--for the furtherance of the newGalactic Federation.
Nodding and smiling, the President of the Galactic Federation and Admiral Stapleton left the dispensary room--with the doctor.
For Sheila Kelly, though--herself a third secretary with the department ofGalactic Economy--it was all very thrilling.
And only a very few people, including those at the Hub and the Galactic League Firstmen on civilized worlds and Observers on frontier planets, knew the precise mechanics of Mayhem's coming.
Aboard the gleaming new ship was the President of the Galactic Federation and his entire cabinet.
I know they have the President of the Galactic Federation aboard this ship and that he ought to be told the truth.
No one knew exactly under what circumstances the Galactic Federation Council, operating from the Hub of the Galaxy, might summon Mayhem.
And the President of the Galactic Federation would die because some unknown factor had locked the controls of the spaceship, making it impossible to turn or use forward rockets against the gravitational pull of the sun.
Garth was behind his desk, his back to the door, studying a galactic wall map.
The galactic map appeared, with the warp-lines superimposed in red.
Thane quickly looked over at the galactic map to see if they could have managed to get back into warp-line drive.
The battle was still going on and lights were still flashing down the galactic screen to sudden, unwitting death.
Reine's laboratory, like a great deal else in the Allied Systems, had gone underground as galactic war approached.
Without the aid of Liaison to depend on it was up to this woman to preventgalactic war.
Our dependence on the galactic lines varies from almost zero to almost unitary, depending on our position in space.
When in extreme danger, I will have to escape to a spot where I have concealed my ejection mortar, and send my sphere into the galactic drift on a chance that it may be found.
I have located my ejection mortar, and when I know that death is finally on me, I will fire off my communication sphere and hope it will reach the galactic drift.
Now humanity could build a Galactic Civilization--a unity that was neither a pure democracy nor an absolute dictatorship, but resulted in optimum governmental control combined with optimum individual freedom.
Well, as you know, the theory for the existence of Centaurus City assumes that it was, at one time, the focal point of a complex of trade routes through the galaxy, established by a race that has passed from the galactic scene.
I didn't know what kind of a cataclysm could have plunged the seat of a galactic empire back into feudal darkness--but it had happened.
But this whole matter of the unexplained inter-galactic voyage and the evidences of violence aboard the ship make me wonder whether I, and perhaps others of my companions, were being exiled for crimes done in the Two Worlds.
As we ascend from the galactic plane we perceive that the density decreases with great rapidity.
Ross had a healthy respect for the technical knowledge of the galactic invaders.
Among those dispatched over Ashe's vehement protests had been Travis Fox who had shared with Ashe and Ross the first galactic flight in an age-old derelict spaceship.
It was a plan almost contemptuous in its simplicity, as if the galactic force had no reason to fear effective opposition.
There was no hint that Hawaika had been openly visited by a galactic ship.
Just as Tino-rau and Taua had formed a bridge of communication between the Terran and Loketh, so did they read and translate the thoughts of the galactic invaders.
Or had this been only a galactic colony, with no native population before the coming of the stellar explorers?
Each marked a set of three undersea depressions in perfect alliance with the land which, according to the galactic map, had once been a cape on a much larger land mass.
They were certainly the product of the galactic empire.
Had the galactic invaders for their own purposes begun to meddle here, leaking weapons or tools to upset what must be a very delicate balance of power?
The galacticvoyagers were here--and in active, if secret, conflict with the natives!
Don't risk trying to learn galactic secrets, but don't risk your enemy's learning them either.
He had tried to learn something of the origin of the Foanna themselves, wondering if the robed ones could be from the galactic empire.
And there is the additional fact that the Galactic Council could hold us responsible for any deaths traceable to the books.
Though Van Rycke, in spite of his general air of sleepy benevolence and careless goodwill, noticed everything, no matter how trivial, which might have a bearing on the delicate negotiations of Galactic Trade.
And it was their private boast that the interests of Galactic civilization, as represented by the black and silver, often followed, not preceded the brown tunics into new quarters of the universe.
And so science served expediency and now a Trader bound for any Galactic banquet was immunized, as far as was medically possible, against the evil consequences of consuming food not originally intended for Terran stomachs.
In vain the Cargo-master and Captain had pointed out that Galactic trade was a chancy thing at the best, that accident might prevent return of the Queen to Sargol.
For generations the population of Terra, decimated by the atomic wars, and then drained by first system and then Galactic exploration and colonization, had been decreasing.
When one man has defeated and completely made fools of a galactic empire, killing is too simple.
Then you try to judge galactic politics and the decisions of a man caught up in the rip tides of these politics, when all you know is your own vicious lives.
In it we learn about Odin, the planet that will one day be the capital of the First Galactic Empire; and humble Niflheim, which in more decadent times will become a common expletive, a word meaning hell.
But Trask had a special personal interest In scourging the stars--he wanted to draw upon himself the fire of a certain enemy--a renegade planet-wrecker with a yen for galactic empire building.
Informed in advance of the doom of the Federation, they would all go down together in the same bloody shambles, and there would be a Galactic night of barbarism for no one knows how many thousand years.
In an eye-wink of galactic time all the violence is locked up in nice, stable compounds.
He flipped through it quickly and dropped a handful of gleaming Galactic Exchange notes onto the table.
They were built during the last wave ofgalactic expansion.
Dane gabbled two trading formulas under his breath and tried to think of the relation of Samantine rock coinage to galactic credits.
He saluted, palm out, and spoke Galactic Basic with only a suggestion of accent.
Free Traders and Patrolmen did not always see eye-to-eye over the proper action to be taken on the galactic frontier.
No further danger to Galactic peace expected from this source.
The Galactic High Commissioner is the government--subject to the Constitution and the Assemblymen who elected him.
Near Stetson, Admiral Sobat Spencer, the I-A's Commander of Galactic Operations, paced the floor.
Another result, which occured shortly after the galactic inter-passage had begun, was the eruption into normal space of the planet Eddore.
Second: the magnitude of the required force is such that its only possible generator is such an organization as the Galactic Patrol toward which we have been and are working.
There is much evidence to support the belief that it was not merely a coincidence that so many planets came into being at about the same time as the galactic inter-passage.
It was undoubtedly through one of these rents in the galactic curtain that the condensed starry cluster of Tycho Brahe suddenly made its appearance in the outer fringes of the Milky-way, and remained visible for a period of seventeen months.
Now suppose that you wished to know if a certain planet was ready to enter into an organization such as the Galactic Federation, what would you do?
The main purpose of the Galactic Federation is to promote peace and understanding among the various planets.
Once she gets there she will be eligible to join theGalactic Federation.
Somewhere, buried deep in the billions of stars that formed the galactic hub, was a race that was as tough and tricky as we were--maybe even tougher.
Before the War, ten of eleven exploration ships sent into the galactic center had disappeared without a trace.
The ship stopped at the specified contact points--some far out near the rim of the galactic constellation, others in closer to the densely star-populated center.
Many races, like Earthmen at the time their star-drive was discovered, had no inkling of the existence of a Galactic Confederation of worlds.
We are useful to the Galactic Confederation only as physicians.
The planet itself will be considered a galactic plague spot until proper measures have been taken to insure its decontamination.
We are seeking a permanent place in this great Galactic Confederation, which was in existence many thousands of years before we even knew of its existence.
Last time I saw a gathering like this was back at home during one of the centennial conclaves of the Galactic Confederation.
At the end of this conclave we will be admitted to full membership and given a permanent seat and vote in the galactic council.
When he spoke the words came through the translator in English; but Dal recognized the flowing syllables of the universal language of the Galactic Confederation.
You were selected by the Galactic Confederation from a thousand possible applicants, to serve as a test case, to see if a place could be made for you on Hospital Earth.
We have built our reputation in the Galactic Confederation on this kind of contract, and our admission to full membership in the Confederation will ultimately depend upon how we fulfill our promises.
One came from the Galactic Confederation headquarters on Garv II; the other was a good clear signal from very close range, unquestionably beamed to them from the planet in distress.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "galactic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
