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had a base somewhere on the planet and that the sensitive measuring instruments of the Gazelles could
easily verify it.

Rhodan took for granted that the enemy, if he stayed on Honur, would harbour no doubts about the
intentions of theTitan , provided he was endowed with human or humanoid mentality. He was likely to
consider the search action as a provocation and to retaliate without delay.

Attacks on the 2 search teams and theTitan could be expected to take place any moment. Additional
Gazelles stood ready to take off to go to TifflorтАЩs or ChaneyтАЩs aid in case they were in distress. The
Ganymede was also in a state of continual alarm. Chaney and Tifflor were advised to keep in touch via
telecom at all times.

Everything had been done that was humanly possible.



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Julian Tifflor performed his duty with an enthusiasm only a young officer could muster. His team
consisted of four amphicarplanes. The vehicles glided close above the ground along a high narrow valley.
Tiff had arranged for the telecom connection with theTitan to be taken over by another vehicle every
hour.

Each amphicarplane was occupied by five men who were equipped with compressor masks which were
required outside the protected vehicle due to the insufficient oxygen content of the air. The masks
dangled under their chins and could be fastened with switched-on compressors by a twist of the hand.

2 hours had elapsed since they debarked from theTitan . Tiff saw to it that the vehicles advanced with
moderate speed and were held close to the ground.

The mountains looked desolate. Tiff followed the little creek coming down from the mountains and
feeding the lake at the base of the cliffs. A 600-foot-wide strip with peculiar prairie plants ran through the
valley to the sides of the naked rocks forming virtually vertical walls and rising thousands of feet up to the
top of the mountains.

The reddish light of the sun didnтАЩt penetrate very deep. Down where TiffтАЩs four vehicles cautiously
wended their way it was semi-dark, which was another reason Tiff proceeded slowly with the search.



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Maj. Chaney made the mistake of treating his mission as a routine flight, which it would have been under
normal circumstancesтАФanywhere else. He considered it strictly as a reconnaissance flight to get the feel
of the physical and geographic features of the land.
 The crews of the Gazelles had little to do. The synchronized automatic pilot kept the vehicles at a