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Introduction<br >3y the twenty-third cen- efficient exploitation of the Federation, however.<br >:ury, the Galactic Federa- existing resources, was outweighed by the<br >:ion had grown to occupy Expansion did not, how- economic difficulty of<br > volume almost 500 light ever, cease entirely and searching through a gi-<br >tears in diameter. Within the survey ships sponsored gantic haystack for very<br >ts sphere of influence by the authorities contin- small needles that might<br >Jvere thousands of worlds ued to probe into the not even exist. It certainly<br >~nd although most were darkness beyond the offi- could not be justified<br >Jninhabited, a high pro- cial frontiers charting and without there being any<br >;)ortion were the homes of gathering data on the evidence of alien species.<br >indigenous species or worlds they encountered. That evidence came to<br >~vere settled by colonists In addition, the newly light when a Security<br >From elsewhere. Many settled planets on the Fed- Patrol ship on a routine<br >more were scenes of in- eral Perimeter were be- mission among the Perim-<br >:lustrial activity in the fields coming more securely eter planets stumbled on<br >0f mining or manufac- established, creating fur- the existence of an alien<br >turing, often by totally ther opportunities for trade ship that had not orig-<br >automated processes, and and shipping, inated from within the<br >hundreds of thousands of Despite this industrious Federation. This brief en-<br >vessels of every kind plied spiral of development and counter heralded the start<br >to and fro along the trade activity, the authorities of one of the most am-<br >routes which led to every ,were constantly aware that bitious journeys of explor-<br >oorner of the Federation: although the Federation ation ever undertaken. The<br > During the very earliest had already grown larger voyage of the Venturer<br >period of the Federation s than could have been im- stands out as one of the<br >history, expansion out- agined just 200 or 300 most remarkable episodes<br >wards into the Galaxy had Earth-yearsearlier, itnever- in the annals of space<br >been comparatively rapid theless represented only travel. The courage of its<br >and uncontrolled, as both a minute area of the dedicated crew in the face<br >c.ommercial interests and Galaxy. Given the number of the uncertainty of the<br >adventurous individuals of inhabited worlds within mission s outcome is still<br >pushed out into unknown its boundaries, it was cer- more remarkable when<br >space in search of wealth tain that hundreds if not each man knew at the<br >and open land. Death and thousands of other intelli- outset of the voyage that<br >disaster decimated the gent forms of life must lie due to the relative time<br >:ranks of these intrepid among the countless stars effects of prolonged hy-<br >explorers during this first beyond. It was just a perspace travel, any of<br >rush for the stars until, matter of time before we themreturninghomewould<br >gradually, the Federation encountered a species or have aged only days for<br >.began to impose controls group of species as tech- each year of real time.<br >and to institute a planned nologically advanced as Those they had left behind<br >programme of expansion, those of the Federation, would be long dead and<br > As a direct result, the and quite possibly more so. oncefamiliarworldswould<br >:rate of expansion slowed The obvious advantage of have changed almost be-<br >.dramatically and greater searching out and iden- yond recognition.<br >emphasis was placed on tifying any such species Star Quest, then, is their<br > ,,4~,; ,4 th,~ h~.fnre, they stumbled on story.<br >
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Star quest: An incredible voyage into the unknown 在線電子書 pdf 下載 txt下載 epub 下載 mobi 下載 2024