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of the primitive chemical rocketship just when it was determined that it came from Mirsal 2. To date,
nobody yet knew what role Mirsal 2 was playing in the drama nor did anyone know how its inhabitants
had managed to remain undetected all this time, even though their technology was centuries in advance of
the people of Mirsal 3. Yet the latter world had been known to the Arkonides for a long time.

Rhodan had considered it prudent to, conduct the investigations as unobtrusively as possible. In view of
events on Mirsal 3 and the disappearance of the Mirsal 2 spaceship without a trace it had been quite
clearly demonstrated that even the mightiest weapons of theDrusus and theArc-Koor were powerless to
affect the enemy. The latter ship was commanded by Talamon who had been placed under his orders by
the Regent of Arkon.

So it wasnтАЩt a question of a show of force. There was no one thereтАФno physical target against which
one might expend military power. The enemy possessed a means of making a sheer mockery out of any
and all forms of destructive energy.

The only alternative, therefore, was more or less a kamikaze type of assignment which Rhodan had often
used with good effect.

Participants in the present assignment were the 3 people involved in the unusual report that Rhodan was
looking at, people who at this moment were millions of miles away in the Resaz-to-Fillinan bus, looking
about them in astonishment for their fellow passengers.

Fellmer Lloyd was a member of the small taskforce because he was one of the few mutants who could
detect the presence of the invisible enemy by means of his parapsychic gifts. Rosita Perez had been
assigned as a psychologist because any mission to an unknown world required a careful study of the
inhabitantsтАЩ mentality. And finally Marcel Rous was with them because he had already had some contact
and experience with the unknown opponentтАФaside from the fact that he also had to make a few amends
for disobeying orders.

So it was that Rhodan deduced from the report that these 3 had just come in contact with the enemy.
The indications were obvious and they were similar to the signal fading that had been observed when the
Mirsal 2 rocketship had disappeared. The basic difference was that in the rocketтАЩs case the signals had
finally faded entirely, whereas in the case of Lloyd, Rosita and Rous the output from their surgically
installed micro-transmitters had regained normal signal strength after only a momentary attenuation.

So it was to be presumed that the 3 agents had come through the danger intact. Their signals were
distinctive for each one and operated continuously, so all 3 were definitely accounted for. In addition to
the micro-transmitters they were also equipped with a minicom device which was similar to the big
hypercom communicators that it could cover a considerable distance. Rous would be calling in as soon
as the situation permitted.

The Gazelle type scoutship in which the 3 had landed on Mirsal 2 was also equipped with a тАШbody
transmitterтАЩ, just like the 3 agents. If the enemy were not completely outclassed by Earthly and Arkonide
technologyтАФif he didnтАЩt have to rack his brains too much in order to comprehend their technical
devicesтАФthen the Gazelle that Rhodan had ordered to be left behind at the settlement would be a
welcome object of study. The foe would steal it away and thus the GazelleтАЩs transmitter would be able to
tell them where it had been taken.

Much could be gained by the maneuver because until now nobody on board theDrusus or theArc-Koor
had any idea where or in what sector of the galaxy these Unknowns were to be found.