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The Zarlt answered with a derisive smile. "Our robots can handle 10 men like Rhodan, Cenets. DonтАЩt
you worry about that. And then once weтАЩve learned how to penetrate unhindered into the Arkon System,
weтАЩll act. The days of the robot rule are numberedтАУlong live the Zalite Empire of Arkon!"

"Long live the Zalite Empire!" the whispered voices of the other 4 men confirmed the new battle-cry of
Zarlt DemesorтАЩs conspiracy.



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Admiral ZernifтАЩs friends opened the attack exactly at the appointed hour.

Important government buildings and especially those of the all-powerful spacefleet were blown up in and
around Tagnor. Even one of the bigger ships exploded on the landing field. Fortunately there was no loss
of life since the crew was busy with outside repairs.

The ZarltтАЩs military forces were openly assaulted as they were patrolling civilian neighbourhoods. A
considerable number of DemesorтАЩs hirelings were killed while the citizens looked on impassively.

Factories situated in the rural districts went up in the air and entire armament works were destroyed. It
became evident how well the rebels had prepared this coup, how effectively they were organized. Such a
revolt could never have been hatched inside a few hours. They must have planned a similar uprising for
quite some time. RhodanтАЩs initiative had merely hastened the course of events.

The Zarlt sounded the alarm. Smaller units of the spacefleet were diverted to their original home ports.
Transporters brought troops from remote areas in order to nip the rebellion in the bud.

Hard as the ZarltтАЩs forces tried to seize the revolutionaries they were always too late; they could never
find a trace of the saboteurs who seemed to vanish into thin air as soon as their acts had been
perpetrated. Nobody admitted to having seen them; nobody could furnish the slightest clue.

Amidst all this chaos, no one paid any attention when a small, disk-shaped ship came shooting down
from the evening sky toward the edge of the space-landing field, quickly to disappear in the open landing
hatch of the 2500-feet-tallGanymede .

The landing manoeuvre had been accomplished undisturbed and unnoticed. The same instant all
sabotage acts ceased abruptly all over Zalit.

Calm returned as if there had never been a resistance movement.



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The night passed without any incidents.