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required to win the Ark Summia. Integral to such an effort is the possibility of
activating his extra-brain, which is present in almost every highly trained
ArkonideтАФand which is an incalculable asset for any future ruler!
Atlan has always been kept uninformed in regard to his actual heritage and
his future significance. My oath to his murdered father and my lord has
hindered me from making such a revelation. Even though the circumstances of
my lofty mission often made this promise appear to be antiquated and no
longer applicable, ever since GonozalтАЩs death I have never broken my word.
But now the time has come to enlighten the Crystal Prince. However, his
impetuous temperament, his profound sensitivity and his deeply rooted
inclination to subordinate all other interests to the security and welfare of the
stellar empire of the ArkonidesтАФall these considerations impose the need for a
very prudent approach to such revelations.
In years past it has been difficult to hold the young prince in check. My
psychological methods were necessarily variable and seemingly dilettanteтАФbut
they served their purpose. AtlanтАЩs persistent questions regarding his true origin
often brought me to the brink of mental and spiritual exhaustion.
He is unrelenting with himself and is bright and sincere. My proposalтАФitтАЩs
been about half an Arkon year agoтАФto announce his candidacy for the final
and most difficult qualification tests on Largamenia sent the youngster into a
transport of ecstasy. Nevertheless this resulted in his pestering me all the more
with his insistent questions. It was very difficult to make the proposition
plausible to him that he should make his debut there under an assumed name,
that for the time being he was to forget his own identity and represent another
Arkonide.
The Crystal Prince finally agreed under one condition: that after a
satisfactory completion of his tests he would be unconditionally informed. To
this I acceded and to this extent the time of silence has come to an end.
However, the task of coordinating the personality and identity factors of the
Crystal Prince with those of Macolon proved to be the most difficult
undertaking of all, if not almost insurmountable. If it had been possible with
the available state of technology to furnish Atlan with MacolonтАЩs brain-wave
patterns, the problem might have been resolved as easily as the matter of
outward appearances. Inasmuch as all appropriate attempts failed miserably
in this regard, I was forced to take the longer and more awkward course of
approaching the problem in reverse.
Before his death, Macolon had been known and loved as an officer of the
Arkonide spacefleet. At that time he had been Chief of the 34th Lakan attached
to the Tanterym Offensive Task Force. Naturally his dossier data and identity
factors were registered in the FleetтАЩs main positronic data banks as well as in
numerous other auxiliary records.
 With the help of my trusted friends, among whom are numerous persons of
high influence, I was able to erase MacolonтАЩs actual data and surreptitiously
replace them with those of the Crystal Prince. For many of my accomplices it
was a venture of life and deathтАФin fact four Arkonides were shot down by the
automatic defences of the robot brain that they were forced to manipulate.
All of us must bear this painful loss as part of the price to be paid for
overthrowing the criminal usurper, Orbanashol III. Before this latter
adventure may be undertaken, however, AtlanтАЩs final cycle of development
must be completed and he must be equipped with the Ark Summia. An