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as the ship but then dispersed itself gradually into the wind.

Deringhouse forced himself not to brood over the loss of the flier any more. Rhodan wasnтАЩt going to be
happy to learn that one of his space fighters had gone down. Hopefully Klein would explain why, on the
next trip, no one had better fly close to that battleship.

Beneath the ejected cockpit capsule lay parklike forested countryside that came at him with a hurtling
velocity. Then the parachute opened and transmitted to Deringhouse a second painful jolt. The area was
not as practical for his purposes as he would have preferred, but at least no road or highway was visible
in the vicinity. The little town he had just passed over was now eighteen miles behind him to the west.

The capsule burst through the trees with a loud cracking sound. There was a final rolling bounce to the
ground, and when all was still and he clambered back onto his seat he was thankful that it was over with
at last. He opened the plastic canopy and climbed out so hurriedly that he stumbled and fell to the
ground. As he jumped to his feet, he held his neutron ray gun ready in his hand. But there was no one
around to accommodate him.

In the same moment Deringhouse perceived that in the coming days his greatest problem would not be
the Topides as much as the heavy gravitation of Ferrol. He had known all along that the gravity field here
carried a force of 1.4 G; but at this moment it ceased to be an abstraction. Not that the muscles of a
strong man couldnтАЩt cope with a weight of 1.4 G; the disadvantage was chiefly psychological. There was
a certain demoralizing effect in having to carry around 217 pounds instead of his normal 155.

Deringhouse resigned himself and started out on his way, resolving to ignore the tugging sensation of the
additional gravity. He wanted to move southward. The sparse forestland offered him little hindrance.
Nevertheless, it would be some time before he reached the mountains.




CHAPTER TWO



If Rhodan was concerned about the loss of a pilot and a space fighter ship, he didnтАЩt show it. Thora
watched him closely but could not tell whether he was struggling with his conscience.

The only observation concerning the case that he offered was, "This doesnтАЩt necessarily prove or
disprove my theories about the versatility of a fighter ship. ItтАЩs simply that in the future weтАЩll have to be
careful about that Arkonide battleship. Apparently its automatic lock on equipment one easily track a
very rapidly moving target."

The nuisance attacks and reconnaissance flights on Ferrol would be continued. Since the other space
fighters had been left on Earth and only two had been brought along, this task was now reserved for
Captain Klein alone.

Evaluation of the film strips offered valuable information. From them it was determined that the Topides
were in the process of establishing a large fleet vase in the unsettled western part of the Great Ocean
Isthmus. Rhodan did not doubt that the major number of the Topidian "hump backs," as he called the rod
shaped vessels with their central bulges, would be stashed out there in some very inconspicuous spot.