Baiel had always shown me the degree of respect prescribed in the Space Code. Aboard the Olympus we clashed only once, and that was when I ordered the emergency landing. "You've no right to risk it, Captain Theusaman," he protested. "We can't do anything else," I answered. "We're ninety-three million light years away from the Earth, and twenty-five outside the patrol area." "Sir, this star sector is totally new to us!" Baiel was standing by the control panel, a tall, thin man in his early thirti