4. TRIUMPH IN A SUB-GALAXYIt was after the destruction of the third system of worlds, when a fourth was preparing for its end, that a miracle, or a seeming miracle, changed the whole course of events in our galaxy. Before telling of this turn of fortune I must double back the thread of my story and trace the history of the system of worlds which was now to play the leading part in galactic events.
It will be remembered that in an outlying ‘island’ off the galactic ‘continent’ there lived the strange symbiotic race of Ichthyoids and Arachnoids. These beings supported almost the oldest civilization in the galaxy. They had reached the ‘human’ plane of mental development even before the Other Men; and, in spite of many vicissitudes, during the thousands of millions of years of their career th
