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to let you work with me without bringing your clan under suspicionтАж Talamon, I think weтАЩre still going to
become good friends!"



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The longer the battle lasted the more concerned Col. Freyt became about his assignment. Actually, the
TAL 153 made it very difficult for him to end the unequal combat. With each minute the danger increased
that the Springer clans with their allied flotillas would appear, because the two cylindrical ships that were
still in action were transmitting an uninterrupted stream of distress signals.

TheGanymede vibrated slightly. A tremor ran through the giant ship: 8 or 9 gun positions had fired
simultaneously. The darkness of the void broke into planes of glistening light fingers that fanned out,
shooting into the Deep and striking the Springer ships.

Two orange clouds of fire erupted in all directions, producing a rain of molten metal. Hellish lightning
marked the detonation of converter energies and the heavy, short-circuiting collapse of magnetic fields.
All 3 of the cylindrical ships of the Galactic Traders were devoid of stern sections. As derelicts they went
reeling away in free fall and their crews inside awaited their deaths. It was the way the Springers
themselves treated their foes: complete annihilation.

And to make things worse, here came this monster spherical spacer thundering out of nowhere. The
Titan was there! The battleshipTAL 153 must have gone into shock at the appearance of the mile-thick
spacer. With reckless acceleration it blasted away from the area. The survivors in the Trader ships thus
witnessed it all in graphic detail. They could understand the flight of the Mounders and now awaited their
deaths more than ever.

However, neither theTitan nor theGanymede concerned themselves over the derelicts. Both vessels
accelerated and disappeared from the optical view of the shipwrecked observers. Exactly 10 minutes
later in the battle area, 14 cylindrical ships emerged out of hyperspace. The space-time continuum
warped in tremendous upheaval at the successive impact of 14 transitions in a row. Each of the hytrans
arrivals was registered by theTitan , which meanwhile had again tucked TalamonтАЩs flagshipTAL 6 under
cover of its super-powerful ECM and anti-tracking shield.

RhodanтАЩs eyes sparkled. Suppressed laughter trembled on his lips as he looked across at the
hypersensor station. The officer who sat tensely at the panel jerked up his head. "Double transition!" he
reported, then passed on the coordinate data and transit direction.

Perry RhodanтАЩs suppressed laughter finally surfaced in a thoughtful smirk. He was thinking of the robot
brain on Arkon. There, too, this double transition had been measured and now the mammoth robot sat
clicking its millions of Arkon relays and waited for the second transit of theTitan and the Ganymede. It
waited in order to finally determine from the transition calculations where in the Galaxy the mysterious
Earth was locatedтАФthe world which Perry Rhodan came from.
Perry Rhodan had out-bluffed the giant positronicon.

In place of theTitan , it was theTAL 153 which had transited together with theGanymede toward the
centre of the Milky Way. Meanwhile theTitan was able to use this ruse to remain within range of Star