Crossword-Solution: BALDIES 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Had the galactic invaders for their own purposes begun to meddle here, leaking weapons or tools to upset what must be a very delicate balance of power? Why? To bring on a conflict which would occupy the native population to the point of exhaustion or depopulation? So they could win a world for their own purposes without effort or risk on their part? Such cold-blooded fishing in carefully troubled waters fitted very well with the persons of the Baldies as he had known them on Terra.

Energy waves beamed shoreward--power for some type of unit the Baldies were using? Suppose the Rovers could find a way of cutting off the power.

Three of them he counted, and they were Baldies, all right--taller and thinner than his own species, their bald heads gray-white, the upper dome of their skulls overshadowing the features on their pointed chinned faces.

One of the Baldies upended his tube, rapped its butt against a rock as if trying to correct a jamming.

For a moment or two the Baldies continued to front the creature, almost, Ross thought, as if they could not believe that their weapons had failed them.