The Mothballed Battleship

The fame of the pyrrans fills the inhabited universe. And right on cue, an Horde threatens destruction and death. It’s urgent to decommission an old battleship of war. The trouble is that, with the passage of years, all the decommissioning codes have been lost.

But the pyrrans take the job—purely for the symbolic sum of 1 (one) billion kreds.

“Battleship in mothballs” is a story by the American science-fiction writer Harry Harrison, written in 1973. It continues the “World of Death” series about the adventures of Jason Din Alt.