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The result of the analysis could not be questioned. Now that the substance of the poison had been
discovered they had no trouble isolating it in ample amounts from the other secretions of the nonues and
to conduct further experiments nor was it difficult to extract it from the spinal fluid of the stricken patients.

HaywardтАЩs designation Argono-hexylamin was adopted and it received in addition to its chemical
description the medical name Argonin because of its unique noble gas ingredient. The process leading
from the contamination to the hyper-euphoria was as yet to be determined. However the indisputable fact
that Argonin was an artificial product proved to be far more challenging than the curiosity for ascertaining
the mode of its effect.

Rhodan was immediately advised of the examinationтАЩs outcome. He summoned Hayward and Manoli
and obtained a full report. However he was unable to learn what he was most anxious to find out; how
did the nonues happen to be infested with this artificial venom?



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Exactly nine days after the arrival of theGanymede the training of the 800 newcomers was finished and
the structure-compensator was installed in theTitan so that they were ready to start.

The structure-compensator was a device which had been taken as booty from the Springers, the race of
Galactic traders, and duplicated on Earth using the same principle. It produced a field shielding the
structure disturbances of the four-dimensional space-time-continuum created by the transition of a vessel.
Under normal conditions such disturbances could be tracked hundreds of light-years away but they were
intercepted and neutralized by the structure-compensator.

Hence a ship equipped with the compensatory device was completely safe from structure-sensors
hyper-rangefinders registering the disturbance caused by a transitionтАФuntil the time somebody
discovered a principle counteracting the effect of the structure-compensator.

The compensator brought in by theGanymede from Earth was originally intended for the use of the
Terrestrial Defence Fleet under the command of Maj. Deringhouse. Colonel Freyt, the Commander of
theGanymede mentioned several times that Deringhouse surrendered the device only with the greatest
reluctance.

RhodanтАЩs announcement that theTitan was to return to Honur caused considerable consternation among
the new members of the crew. The mishap, which had occurred on Honur, was by now common
knowledge. It required some additional explanations on the part of the Commander to alleviate the
anxiety among the men. "Now that we know the danger, it has lost its worst terror. WeтАЩre going to take