the Earth.
I do not understand your indecision,Erg.
You are like awaiting for something.
We will finish loading of anameson in 12 hours,
and then we will be able to take off.
Yes, Kay, as a commander, I am ready
to give this command. But as a scientist...
We met here something unknown,
and this unknown kills.
We are scouts, Kay. After us will arrive others.
Tragedy of "Sail" can not be repeated.
Does it mean, that start is postponed?
Yes. We must meet those unknown face to face.
Eon is preparing one experiment.
I have to feel, to see this myself.
"Tantra", remove searchlight! Eon, light!
Well, well, now we need patience.
Look, Niza, this time you were able to persuade Eon,
but from tomorrow I forbid you
participation in all actions out of the ship.
But commander, according to the timetable
I am in the emergency group.
I am not joking!
Are you afraid, that I am next to you?
But nevertheless I will be next.
Next to you - here, now, then...
on this planet, on the Earth... Entire life.
I love you, commander.
And I can't go anywhere from this love.
Niza!
Wel, well. I will be silent.
Just take it. These are the verses of very ancient poet.
Take it for the memory!
Printed? What old times!
Now! Do you feel? Pain in the spine?
I feel too.
Attention! "Tantra"! Kay, are you ready?
Attention! Light!
Well, what was this?
- I had't time to note.
- Me also.
Something like feelers.
May be these are spectres, the clusters of the darkness
around the charges of some energy?
No, no, it is clearly creation of living material.
And it tried to devour us.
The monster has striking reaction. No wonder
that those killed had no time to note anything.
Approximation of this is unpleasant,
but we'll repeat experiment.
Kay, turn light off!
The creature is not alone!
I think, one ought not let him to touch the cap.
You are right.
"Tantra", get ready!
Let each looks only to his side!
Kay!
Haven't ever seen something alike!
This will not be forgotten until death!
Erg! We have to seriously study these jelly-fishes!
Jelly-fishes and spiral-discus!
Are we scientists or not?
We can't miss this possibility to learn, from where it is,
who did construct him, what it carried to other places?
That's why I propose planetary.
Use of a planetary engine, is, of course, good idea.
But how...
It is decided. Only men will go.
As in the ancient times.
- But Louma?
- Louma is a doctor.
I am a doctor too!
You are, first of all, astro-navigator, Niza,
and you must be at your place.
Well! Well, I will be at my place.
Louma!
I must be tomorrow with him! Next!
Ridiculous! There will be we all next to him.
Is it really so hard to understand? You all!
But it must be, first of all, me! Me!
No one must be close, no one!
Niza?
Louma felt herself not well, she requested replacement.
When they request, it cannot be refused.
We will clear it aboard the ship.
By the way, Kay...
Commander, where are you going?
Erg!
Erg! Erg! Erg!
Retreat! All! All retreat!
"Tanta", hold light!
Retreat! It is enough of victims!
We are not ready for this fight. Retreat!
- She is alive, but...
- She is dying?
Not yet. The heart works, one impact in one hundred seconds.
This is not death, but complete collapse.
Consciousness, torture?
Excluded.
Absolutely. If collapse will not progress, it's all the same.
Let she will sleep to the Earth.
I fear hovewer, if her heart will
maintain the overload of takeoff.
What do you propose?
We'll prepare a special chamber.
And then alter it into floating medical box.
Agree. As soon as you do everything,
report to the post.
We will stay here no more than necessary.
Taht's enough of the darkness
and gravity of this black world.
"For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings'."
Everything is ready, commander. We can start.
Just a moment, Kay.
There are Louma, Eon... They must devise something.
What an ancient melody!