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Clouds over Terrania? Col. Freyt had asked himself this question and had regarded this rare
phenomenon as a bad omen, even though he was not superstitious. Terrania, Perry RhodanтАЩs tiny
тАШspringboardтАЩ in the Gobi Desert, which had launched him onto the path toward conquering the Universe
for the Earth, was the power centre of Terra; for Earthmen it was an unimaginable concentration of might.

Col. Freyt considered this power as the ground car raced swiftly past the heavy cruisers and the
Stardust II . The facts were the Earth had fewer heavy space cruisers than a man had fingers on his
hand! Against this force, the Galactic Traders and the Mounders had a thousand times that muchтАФand
when Freyt thought of the engines of power which were at the disposal of the Arkon Empire, he could
only shake his head.

"We have a chance of one in a million!" he muttered, half aloud, and felt himself at the point of
depression. But he brightened with the recollection of everything that they and Perry Rhodan had
experienced and accomplished together in just 15 years. He finally had to admit: "We have never had a
better chanceтАФwe have Perry Rhodan and the others donot !"

It was as though a new strength were being transmitted into himтАФa power which came to him from over
30,000 light-years away, where Perry Rhodan held forth in theTitan тАж

Half an hour after Col. FreytтАЩs arrival, the first strategy conference took place.

"Maj. Nyssen, when will the installation of the hyper-compensator be completed on board your vessel
theSolar System ?"

So it began. Freyt fired question after question at them. He demanded precise answers. The
communication wires were almost hot. There were inquiries and check-backs to and from shipyards,
laboratories, research plants, worldwide radiotelephone conference calls to the major end-item and
staging plants. There was a half-hour period in which two-thirds of global radio and television
communications were blocked or commandeered by Terrania.

This was the first and only sign the Earth had that something unusual was in the air. Terrania only exerted
its prerogatives on a global jurisdiction level in the case of an extreme top emergency. All satellite stations
were in alert condition One. The period of peace and quiet had ended at all defence bases on the planets
and on the Moon.

Col. Freyt noted the light of enthusiasm growing in the eyes of his colleagues. But he did not subscribe to
this brand of heroism, since he was in possession of a few more of the facts involved. A film from Arkon
interrupted the communications network for 10 minutes. A bewildered and uncomprehending audience
was bombarded 10 minutes long with ArkonPower ; they were smothered with it, almost to the point of
destruction. The film hammered its message home mercilessly to each man.

After this demonstration, Col. Freyt then brought their focus into reality: "Under the most favourable
circumstances, we and the Earth have a chance of about one in a million. Gentlemen, our prospects for
success or survival have always been as good or as bad as that until the present moment. If the Aras
should succeed in tying the Galactic Traders in with their goals, whereby the Springers and the Mounders
launch an attack against the EarthтАФand after all, why shouldnтАЩt the Aras succeed?тАФthen in a very short
time there will not be an Earth any more, but rather, this solar system will possesstwo suns instead of
one!