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of a considerable spaceship fleet. Topthor.
The second entity travelled aboard TopthorтАЩs flagship, the same space vessel
with which he had attempted to attack Earth when it had been accidentally
discovered many months previously. However, neither Topthor nor тАШthe otherтАЩ
knew that Perry RhodanтАЩs mutants had long since altered the position co├╢rdinates
data in the memory banks. тАШThe otherтАЩ was the positronic brain aboard the
MounderтАЩs ship.
Occupying the supposed position of the Earth now was the third planet of the
giant star Betelgeuse, 272-light-years distant from the terrestrial solar system.
This fact was to lead to a world-shattering mistakeтАФa carefully engineered error
for 2 great stellar races, although their greatest adversary, a certain Terranian
named Perry Rhodan was, as a result, to disappear forever from the scene along
with his home planet.
Exactly as plotted by Rhodan.

* * * *

Humanity had finally come of age. Man had made of his planet a near Utopia
only dreamed of a few generations earlier by visionaries like Wells, Bellamy,
Gernsback, Ernst von Loig.
World government had long since ceased to be a social fantasy, the impossible
dream of science fiction prophets and global-minded statesmen. Border lines and
customs barriers had fallen. Homer G. Adams, the Finance Minister of Terra, had
introduced a common unit of currency: the Solar. The former great powers and the
small nations had their representative seats in the Great Council of the World
Government, which met at regular intervals in Terrania, the world capital.
 The danger of war was now as dead as the dinosaur. Money which had
previously been squandered insanely and incessantly on the senseless competition
for national military тАШsecurityтАЩ now served to construct a gigantic spacefleet for
the protection of mankind as a planetary unit.

* * * *

Located in the heart of the Gobi Desert, Terrania was the scene of great
activity. As the central core of United Earth, the city of a million inhabitants
awaited the report of its first citizen, finally home from space after an absence of
half a year. No one knew what had transpired during those 6 months but everyone
suspected that only events of critical importance could have kept Perry Rhodan so
long away from Earth.
Chief Engineer Kowalski and electronic technician Harper had their evening
free and were seated expectantly before the TV screen in the common living
quarters which they shared with 2 other colleagues who were on the night shift.
The station identification picture showed interstellar space with the Milky Way in
the background; in the foreground, the shadow outline of a torpedo-shaped ship.
Only the single word Terrania identified the source of transmission.
Every Earthman, Earthwoman and Earthchild was aware that an event of major
importance was impending. Virtually no one would miss this broadcast for World
Government was to speak to the population of the entire planet.
Perhaps the most important man on Earth or off itтАФthe Administrator
himselfтАФwould address the united natives of his home world personally.