" Perry Rhodan 0043 - (35) Beware the Microbots" - читать интересную книгу автора (Perry Rhodan)

an earlier era of expansion, intelligent but primitive and completely apathetic."

Rhodan listened attentively, as if hearing the history of Honur for the first time. He motioned Tifflor to
continue.

"Honur is now off limits for us," the lieutenant continued. "The entire planet is a veritable spaceship trap
where dozens of wrecks already have been decaying for some time. тАФWhy? Because cute little
bear-like animals indigenous to the planet are saturated clean through their fur with nerve poison. The
slightest touch by human or humanoid hand is enough to cause infection. The toxin of the
harmless-looking nonues makes a man lose his inhibitions and commit excesses to the point of completely
ignoring his duty. A man infected by the nonue-poison collapses into a laughing idiot who rejects all food
and exhausts himself in a state of euphoria.

"TheTitan landed on Honur because, on the advice of the Arkonide Thora, this particular world had
been chosen for a rendezvous with theGanymede . The crew of theTitan fared no better than all the
other ships which had the misfortune of landing on Honur. The population was peaceful due to their
apathy. The little nonues were so tame and friendly that everybody cuddled them and took them aboard
the ship. The disease spread with lightning speed. Only 5 people were spared: you, sir; the Arkonide
Khrest; the 2 mutants, Pucky and Sengu; and I.

"At the most critical moment theTitan was attacked by another spaceship whose crew consisted of
robots. We managed to repulse the attack and you, sir, succeeded in manning the Command Centre in
spite of the condition of the stricken men. You started theTitan and left Honur.

"Several other alien ships followed us but the five us, surrounded by ecstatic mutineers, were unable to
cope with them. We finally called in theGanymede from Earth to help us and the nightmare was quickly
ended.

"This is the story, sir. Am I correct?"

Rhodan nodded thoughtfully, a faint smile playing around his lips. "YouтАЩre taking a very commendable
approach," he said. "First state the facts and then draw the conclusions. ThatтАЩs what you want to do,
donтАЩt you?"

"Certainly, sir. But I donтАЩt know ifтАж"

"Nonsense! Go ahead!"

Tiff shrugged his shoulders. "Well, then: the whole Honur affair looks like a put-up job. Nobody knows
who gave Thora the advice to suggest Honur as a rendezvous but IтАЩm sure she has been under the
influence of somebody elseтАФeither our foe or his agent.

"The crew of theTitan was poisoned according to plan but thanks to the fact that five men remained
unaffected theTitan didnтАЩt fall victim to the first robot ship. Our opponent realized that his scheme had
misfired to some extent and he pursued us with a more powerful squadron which we were unable to
defeat by ourselves. Luckily theGanymede arrived in the nick of time."
He suddenly broke off and looked at Rhodan. Rhodan sensed that he wanted to say something else. "So
what do you think?" he challenged Tiff. "What advice would you give me?"

"WeтАЩve never met our adversary face to face. WeтАЩve seen only his robots. For some reason he wants to