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and over obstacles that could not be overcome by the tracks alone.



The schedule Khrest had worked out for each of the machines was on a paper thin strip of plastic.
"These strips contain all necessary impulses," declared Khrest.



Then he began to feed the programs into the robot machines by inserting the plastic strip into a slot at a
different place on each of the twenty robots. Khrest waited until the machine began to hum, which was
the signal that it was now ready to work, as it devoured the plastic strip.



"After such a long period of inactivity," explained Khrest, "it will take a few seconds for the activation
to take effect."



A few seconds seemed to Rhodan a ridiculously short span of time, considering the feverish activity
the robots displayed within a few moments.



Humming like bees, they began to leave their places and move about, carefully avoiding any collisions
with each other. Then they all marched toward the elevator in which Khrest and Rhodan had arrived just
a little while earlier. Rhodan burst out laughing after the last machine had left the storeroom on its way in
the elevator.



"IтАЩll be twonked!" he groaned. "IтАЩd never have believed such a thing possible"



"You will- be really amazed to see what these robots are capable Of," answered Khrest. "They are
true robots. Up to a certain degree they can think and act and make decisions on their own. I canтАЩt
imagine what would have become of our Arkonide civilization without them.



The Robots did not leave the ship immediately. First they collected all the items they had been
instructed by their programmed schedule to take along with them to the outside.
 When Rhodan had first made plans to effect the task he had set himself, he had been obsessed with
the idea that no time must be wasted. Rhodan saw a chance that was worthwhile taking if he could
procure from terrestrial industry the various parts needed to construct a faster than light spaceship with an
unlimited radius of action. All that was necessary was to place the parts in exactly detailed order. Their
assembly would have to take place inside the protective energy bell. In view of the political situation of
the great powers, as well as the character of mankind in general, it would have been an irresponsible risk