"David A. Kyle - Lensman 10 - Z- Lensman" - читать интересную книгу автора (Kyle David A)

old-Bovreck fitted
perfectly into the elaboration of his plans. Bovreck's space lab became not
only the
early-warning station for Angzex, it also became the communications base for
Nadreck's
extensive operations. just as the two zex-line family members harmonized
perfectly in the
intricacies of their thought processes, so did the reek-line family members.
Nadreck had
the decided advantage of Bovreck's Lens for increasing his ability for rapid
and precise
informational interchanges across the light-years.
It was inevitable, therefore, that the existence of the Palainian Research
Laboratory Five
should have precipitated what happened.
Not since the days of the Triplanetary League, with its Triplanetary Patrol,
the predecessor
of the Galactic Patrol, had Civilization's once audacious and dreadful foe
attempted to fight
back from his humiliating defeat. That once mighty entity, who singlehandedly
had brought
Tellus close to unsalvageable ruin, was Gharlane.
Gharlane, Master Number Two of the Innermost Circle of the All-Highest of the
Eddorians,
had never ceased planning for the day when he would again personally challenge
the
Patrol. Finally, he had decided to initiate his personal battle against
Civilization by
choosing Palain VII as his target.
1 Space Pirates Attack

The attack of the space pirates on the intergalactic space station was sudden
and
unopposed. Brolenteen, his attention fixed tenaciously on his own plans,
arrived too late to
stop it. He was not perturbed, however. His prodigious power as Arisian
Guardian of
Palain was reserved for the true peril, which came not from the guns of the
Boskonian
outlaws but from the menace that traveled with them.
Brolenteen was himself most particularly involved in the lives of the two
Palainians who
were in danger of being killed. Bovreck had been one of the first of the
strange frigid
beings to have received the Lens of Arisia from Brolenteen's superentity,
Mentor. As for
Bovreck's coresearcher, Ymkzex-although not measuring up to being a Lensman
had
nevertheless joined the Galactic Patrol as a technician assigned permanently
to Bovreck .