" Perry Rhodan 0042 - (34) SOS Spaceship Titan" - читать интересную книгу автора (Perry Rhodan)

"Whoosh! and away!" said Reginald Bell, leaning way back in his armchair. He watched the panoramic
observation screen in theTitan тАЩs command centre with hands locked behind his head.

TheGanymede was no longer visible on the panob. The final dim flash of light had been a farewell of the
departing ship to the crew of theTitan , which remained behind on Tagnor.

Bell made himself comfortable. For the moment he was content with the situation. TheGanymede was
streaking toward its hypertransit point, from where it would reach the Earth in a few instantaneous jumps.
There were a thousand hypno-trained specialists in readiness, every one of them a highly qualified man in
his field, and all of them impatient to return on theGanymede to form the crew of the biggest space
fighter of the galaxies, theTitan .

And here in this super spacesphere sat Reginald Bell. Slightly on the roly-poly side, given to bursts of
temper, a daredevil but a heck of an honest guy. He was Perry RhodanтАЩs best friend, his deputy, a man
firm as a rock.

He turned his head toward the pilotтАЩs seat to look at Perry Rhodan. Here beside him was a man who
had the means at his disposal to be lord and master of the Earth, yet to whom the thought had never
occurred. But Perry had another goalтАФone of the distant future: to make Earth the centre of the galaxy!
This lost speck in a remote arm of the Milky Way, this dust in the Universe, would take over ArkonтАЩs
role, relieve the decadent Arkonides of their mission, which they no longer could accomplish, and then
finally extend civilization to all the worlds of the Universe.

Bell watched him. Rhodan was tensely alert. He flipped a control switch, always ready to do what was
needed when others were still in a shock mode. The next moment he sat there relaxed and waited for a
report from the Hyper-Sensor section.

The coordinate-detection beams from theTitan were monitoring theGanymede тАЩs Right. The
Hyper-Sensors were triggered to detect the moment when the earthbound ship would make a
hypertransition, thus warping the structure of surrounding space.

"Did you say something, Reg?" asked Rhodan, glancing at him earnestly.

Bell suddenly straightened up and replied a bit peevishly. "I sort of had a feeling I made an observation
that theGanymede had just whooshed off, Perry!"

"Interesting, Reg, but not relevant. Col. Freyt has a hypertran compensator at his disposal but we donтАЩt.
He can тАШwhoosh off, as you put it, but we have to wait awhile until we have such equipment, so we canтАЩt
enjoy the luxury of тАШwhooshing offтАЩ just nowтАФalthough it would be such a joy, donтАЩt you think, my
friend?"

RhodanтАЩs first words had alerted Bell and both levity and petulance ceased. His eyes darted around the
giant command central of the ship and he sighed wearily.
 TheTitan was in his opinion the ultimate of all ships in known space but this command centre was, in his
opinion, a nightmare. There was no one who would be able to read and comprehend all the indicators
and instruments simultaneously. TheTitan , a sphere having an approximate diameter of one mile, was the
crowning achievement of Arkonide spaceship technology. The huge command central was in the form of
a hall-like cupola whose walls bristled with indicators and meters and all sorts of automatic visual data
readouts and scanners. Somewhere in all this jungle Perry Rhodan had spotted something of vital