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"DonтАЩt toy with the idea of using ArkonтАЩs strength. The Chief sees in that the one greater danger for the
Earth. Because if the great positronicon once learns our location, then nothing will save us from Arkon
slavery and servitude under the will of a Machine! If we are not able to help ourselves, we are lost.

"Until tomorrow at the same time, I will await your recommendations pertaining to the situationтАж!"



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Pip!The telltale sound of a pulse-coded message was heard over theTitan тАЩs hyperspace receiver.

"Chief!" blurted out Cadet Mengs, who was on duty in the Com Central. "TalamonтАЩs fleet has gone to its
transit station!"

Perry Rhodan ignored the appellation of тАШChiefтАЩ. He knew that everyone referred to him as such
unofficially; nevertheless it was not customary to issue a dispatch to him in this form of address.

He turned his head. Bell sat in the co-pilotтАЩs seat. "Hyper-compensator, Bell?"

"Operating!"

Each event now committed the next in an inexorable chain. TheTitan was ready for a hyperspace
transition. All preparations were completed. Time Zero arrived. Now the mighty positronicon took over
all controls. All chance of human error was eliminated.

Then theTitan disappeared into hyperspace. The tremendous warpage of the universal fabric, which was
detectable in the entire Galaxy with every departure of a vessel from the normal space-time-continuum,
this time remained unsensed!

The last great scientific discovery of the Galactic TradersтАФEarthтАЩs and Perry RhodanтАЩs bitterest
enemiesтАФwas the hyper-compensator, one of which was located within the giant spherical hull of the
Titan . The ingenious device was first uncovered on board theGanymede , which had been built by the
Springers as a battleship and was captured from them by Perry Rhodan. The discovery was made during
a complete redesign of the vessel, in which the 4 tail fins and another 120 feet of fuselage were added.
By means of an ultimate emergency effort, EarthтАЩs industry had been able to imitate the alien technology.
But the hyper-compensator that Rhodan had at his disposal on board his spaceship was only a working
prototype; it would take some time yet before the Earth would be able to go into mass production of the
device.

At a mathematical null-point in time, theTitan emerged from hyperspace once more and now hovered in
the mysterious silence and darkness of the universe, 8000 light-years removed from the Arkon
EmpireтАФfar distant from any concentration of stars. Under protection of this boundless solitude, it was
safe from discovery by any Springer ship.
 Cadet Mengs had reported TalamonтАЩs fleet to be at its transit station. In short pulse-bursts, the executive
communication of the green-skinned patriarch Talamon had come through on scramble code. With more
than 200 battleships, he lay 4000 fathoms deep on the bottom of an ammoniac sea; above which boiled
and seethed the poisonous atmosphere of a planetary giant whose diameter exceeded that of Jupiter eight