We All Died At Breakaway Station Author:Richard C Meredith The Officers Of the Iwo Jima: — Captain Absolom Bracer, with, among other things, an artificial brainpan and synthetic eyes; Astrogation Officer Gene O'Gwynn, a lady with a plastic face; Weapons Officer Akin Darby and Communications Officer Miss Cyanta - both with assorted prosthetic parts; — And Of the Pharsalus: — A repetition, with variations, o... more »f the crew of her sister ship. These two heavy battle-cruiser starships were, in theory, protecting the cumbersome, vast Rudoph Cragstone, hospital ship returning to Earth with thousands of wounded in "cold sleep."
The brutally injured officers had been restored to temporary, artificial life to do this job because no whole man or woman could be spared.
And then Breakaway Station, a focal and vital link to Earth, was threatened.....« less