Sol III n.

Lensman of Trenco space port, or any other Lensman within call!… Kinnison of Tellus—Sol III—calling.

And even to that individual grain of sand called ‘Earth’—or, in modern parlance, ‘Sol Three’, or ‘Tellus of Sol’, or simply ‘Tellus’—the affair was of negligible importance.

But where, in all the universes which stretched endlessly through the cosmos, had there been a precedent for the thoroughly confounding incidents which had occurred on Sol Three?

Wing Alak of Sol III…you are under arrest for conspiracy against the state.

The difficulty did not originate on Sol III this time.

While each planet has its day, its year, its own method of dating, while they are reconciled for science in terms of the standard second as defined by radioactive decay, the standard year of the birthplace of mankind, and a standard reference date, the first jump from that planet, Sol III, to its satellite, it was impossible for an illiterate boy to date anything that way.

By the time Khreng and Prandra came out of deepsleep the ship was in Solthree orbit. [Ibid. 34/2, with the meaning ‘person from Earth’:] Khreng sat in shul with the men of Kostopol and the Qumedon/rabbi, cursing his aching back; he prayed to the God of Solthrees with his voice and to Firemaster with his heart: Unburden me of this Shape and this World, make me a man among men on Ungruwarkh and I never lift a foot off the planet again!

The Scientists and engineers of Sol III will have been drafted into the great effort.

‘You are disturbing the ambassador…. She should not be disturbed when channeling. It’s dangerous.’…‘Ya,’ the ambassador to Sol Three said. The door closed.

Tuesday 10/12/54 Chicago, USA, Sol III