Chapter 12
▂▂▂▂▂▂VESTA PRACTICES SPACEAL
THE CONNECTION was made and he brought Lensman Strong up to date, concluding: “So will you please get hold of Planetography with a crash priority on anything they know about that point?”
“I’ll do that, Storm. I’ll call you back.”
Since Lensmen are potent beings, the call came soon.
“There’s one sun there,” Strong reported, “but it doesn’t amount to much. A red dwarf—it may or may not be a single. Unexplored. Astronomical data only.”
“How close did I come to it?”
“Allowing for proper motion, you speared it. Less than two hundredths of a parsec off. And there’s nothing else within twelve parsecs—stars are mighty thin out beyond the Rim, you know.”
“I know. That nails it, Phil. They don’t know, of course, whether it has any planets or not?”
“No . . . I see what you mean . . . shall I get a special on it for you?”
“I wish you would. It’d be worth while, I think.”