“What would you want us to do?”
“I want enough of our crew to come back to operate this ship. I want to hand myself and the crew and the ship over to you, so that both our societies get the benefits from working together.”
“We can do that. If you let us go.”
“All right.”
I asked him for any information about locations on the planet. He took us to another control room off to the side, where a giant projector displayed a 3-D image of the planet below.
The images we had from the Exchange were nowhere near as detailed.
The surface consisted of rugged mountain ranges covered in snow, huge glaciers running down into ice lakes, and jagged mountains of ice.
“The base is across the mountain range in this valley.”
He enlarged the image to show the area. The lake looked more like a plain of i
