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Other data yielded information concerning the balance of enemy small bases and deployed fleet
commands. Out of this emerged a revelation that although the Topides were well spread out they were in
fact thinly distributed. The individual commands were sufficient to suppress uprisings among the populace
where they occurred, but their capacity to resist the full impact of a concerted attack was questionable.

The inference to be drawn from the analysis was startling. The Topides were concentrating their major
forces on the Great Ocean Isthmus, and thus on the rest of the planetтАЩs surface they were leaving
themselves open to attack. If one were forced to reject the idea that Topidian fleet strategy was merely
stupid and amateurish, then the only other inference remaining wasтАУan allтАУout attack on the last Ferronian
bastion on Rofus was imminent!

Rhodan had several conversations with the Thort over the telecom, and he evidence deep concern over
this development. Apparently, he was helpless. Rhodan got the message that he himself was now
expected to furnish the actual deliverance. He suppressed a smile when he recalled that he had come
here to Rofus in the damagedGood Hope toask for help. He comforted the Thort as best he could and
then turned to cogitating how best to circumvent the grave destiny that now hung over the ninth planet of
the Vega system. He took Khrest, Thora, and Tako Kakuta into consultation.

As a result of this conference they concluded that the recon and harassment flights of Captain Klein were
no enough to deter the Topidian attack on Rofus. The only possibility remaining seemed to point to a
defensive counter-attack in the TopidesтАЩ own territory on Ferrol, through use of the transmitters and a
powerful commando force.

The information gathered by Klein was transmitted to Kekeler in Sic-Horum, and his answering
confirmation revealed that he was very pleased. However, when it was explained to him that a shock
troop commando force of some forty men would shortly appear on Ferrol he returned a question as to
whether the proper people had been selected for withstanding the gruelling hardships of their guerrilla
war.

To this Reginald Bell snorted angrily, "IтАЩll show that character a thing or two when I see him. Does he
think that the Sichas are the only fighters in the whole world?"



DeringhouseтАЩs march to the south was finally interrupted by a very ordinary circumstance, which
ultimately forced him to risk a rather foolhardy but nonetheless necessary side venture. The simple fact
was that a man could walk only so far under an unaccustomed pall of gravity before becoming ravenously
hungry. He had discovered only a few bluish berries, which seemed safe to eat because of evidence that
birds had been pecking at them, but they were few and unsatisfying.

His former survival training under Pounder would call for going incognito into a town and foraging for
foodтАФbut here, among Ferronians, it would be difficult for an Earthman to assume the appearance of a
native. As far as the language was concerned, KhrestтАЩs recent hypno course had enabled him to speak
and read both the international commercial language and many regional dialect. As far as physiology was
concerned, on the several Ferronian worlds there were a variety of types, he had heardтАФand the fact
that the Sichas were larger and lighter of skin complexion was of particular interest now.

He had found that the blue berries left a light bluish stain that, if evenly applied to his face and visible
extremities, might help disguise him for a short period. Perhaps, then, the main ingredient would be native
clothing and to bush up his hair a bit. Some Sichas and other more remote types he had seen pictured in