hexan

"Shall I direct the torpedo in the case the hexan shifts?" asked the officer.

Spacehounds of IPC 1927

Under that awful impact, the screens and walls of the hexan spheres were exactly as effective as so many structures of the most tenuous vapor.

Spacehounds of IPC 1927

It was only a matter of moments until not a hexan vessel remained; and the Vorkulian juggernaut spiraled onward, now at full acceleration, toward the hexan stronghold dimly visible far ahead of them -- a vast city built around Jupiter's northern pole.

Spacehounds of IPC 1927

Czuv had given it precisely the direction and acceleration necessary to make it meet the hexan sphere in central impact, provided that sphere maintained its course and acceleration unchanged.

Spacehounds of IPC 1927

Every deadly frequency and emanation known to the fiendish hexan intellect, backed by the full power of the city, was poured out against the invaders in sizzling shrieking bars, bands, and planes of frenzied incandescence.

Spacehounds of IPC 1927

"Of course, because of the hexan blockade, you cannot take us off until they have been wiped out, which will be several months at best," the surgeon said, slowly, and a shadow came over his face as he spoke.

Spacehounds of IPC 1927

Lifted bodily by that impalpable hawser of force and cruelly wrenched and twisted by its enormous couple of angular momentum, the hexan works came up out of the ground as a waterpipe comes up in the teeth of a power shovel.

Spacehounds of IPC 1927

And swiftly, but calmly and methodically as at a Vorkulian practice drill, the heptagons were destroying the hexan fleet.

Spacehounds of IPC 1927

Simultaneously from each heptagon there flamed downward a green shaft of radiance, so that the whole immense circle of the cone's mouth was one solid tractor beam, fastening upon and holding in an unbreakable grip mile upon mile of the hexan earthworks.

Spacehounds of IPC 1927

It is true that they are being conquered, but for every human life that is taken, a thousand hexans die, and for every human ship that is lost, twenty hexan vessels are annihilated in return.

Spacehounds of IPC 1927