Scorpii

The e-flyer said they were looking for 1000 healthy individuals, between the ages of 21 and 32, that would be willing to participate in the first manned colonization mission to a planet in the Scorpii system.

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Captain, we have a very faint trace leading off in the direction of chi Scorpii.

INTELLIVORE DIANE DUANE 2000

At any rate, Captain, they reported all well, and continued on their way, heading for One Twenty-seven Scorpii, I believe.

INTELLIVORE DIANE DUANE 2000

In a seventy-year period, there were three separate colonization attempts—one making for B Hydri, one for twenty-two Ophiuchi, and one heading for three thirty-four Scorpii.

INTELLIVORE DIANE DUANE 2000

There was no reason for zeta-10 Scorpii to have gone nova when we left its neighborhood … except one.

THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983

The screen burned with the violent and lovely image of zeta-10 Scorpii, nested deep in its eye-searing indigo and violet shells.

THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983

I discard as irrelevant the effect of our warp drive as a cause for these changes; we have never come near the warp-effect boundary while in the neighborhood of zeta-10 Scorpii.

THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983

It is interfering with our spectral readings—several of which have indicated something rather frightening: the appearance of the spectral characteristics that preceded the explosions of 109 Piscium and zeta-10 Scorpii.

THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983

The presence of the ‘symbiotic’ spectral lines in the stars here, the same lines as in 109 Piscium and zeta-10 Scorpii, confirms it—a breach of physical integrity on a massive scale, just considered locally.

THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983

I have been examining the spectra of 109 Piscium that we took before we left its neighborhood, and the spectrum of zeta-10 Scorpii here.

THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983