Threat of close and inevitable intrusion has hung over fogs of Andromedy, Mese 33 and others. So has passed year.
The first blow was put by Lin, the flight engineer and the hunter. With levity peculiar to it he has asked the father who has
arrived in holiday from extraterrestrial factory bezgravitatsionnogo of moulding, since what years accept in kosmoletchiki. The
answer was so awful that 18th has refused to believe to it. Smart Polli has instigated the younger brother malka to ask the
same question to somebody from teachers. The answer was the same. Conquest of galaxies was postponed for almost
infinite term - years on ten. There has come a short epoch of confusions for news brought to naught carefully developed
project "Blossoming lilac" according to which 18th with its full complement should plunge secretly aboard the interplanetary
tanker going on Pluton.
The captain expected to appear in a week after start and automatically to merge the crew with tanker crew.
The following blow was less unexpected, but much heavier.
During this epoch of confusions the crew "Galaktiona" suddenly somehow has realised at once - he has learnt about it much
earlier - that in the world use the greatest honour, as it is strange, not kosmoletchiki, not glubokovodniki and even not
mysterious subjugators of monsters - zoopsychologists, and doctors and teachers. In particular, it was found out that in World
Council - sixty percent of teachers and doctors. That teachers all time does not suffice, and kosmoletchikami though a pond
prudi. That, there will be no doctors, badly it would be necessary glubokovodnikam, and at all on the contrary. All these, and
also many other things of the same sort destructive data was are brought home crew dreadfully in the every day image: at the
most ordinary television lesson on economy and that the most terrible, not in the least has not been denied by the teacher.
The third and definitive blow was put by doubts. Flight engineer Lin has been caught by the Captain behind reading "the
Course prostudnyh diseases at children's age" and in reply to sharp attack has impudently declared that intends to bring
henceforth to people concrete advantage, instead of doubtful data from a life of space spaces. The captain and the
navigator have been compelled to apply belief extreme measures under which pressure the turncoat recognised that the
children's doctor from it all the same will not turn out, whereas as the flight engineer or, at the worst, the hunter it still has
chances to gain to themselves undying glory. On an extent ekzekutsii smart Liber Polli sat in a corner and was silent, but
since then took for a rule at the slightest pressing to blackmail crew with is incoherent-venomous threats of type "I will run
away in laryngologists" or "let the teacher will tell, who is right". Sashka Lin, listening to it, enviously snuffled. Doubts
corroded crew "Galaktiona". Doubts gnawed soul of the Captain.