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IS THE CHIEF DEAD?



A DARK AGE seems to have begun for mankind with the death of Perry RhodanтАЩs beloved
Arkonide wife Thora.

Is Rhodan himself dead?

The fear spreads like wildfire as 500,000 men wait in vain for a command from their Chief.

Discovering that the positronic Robot Brain on Arkon is, even beyond the menace of the
Druufs, in actuality the greatest danger to Earth, the Solar Administrator has ordered the
entire massed might of the Terranian Spacefleet to stand in readiness for ablitzkrieg aimed
at destroying the threat of the non-human ruler of Arkon.

But Perry Rhodan is on the secret base on Grautier when that planet diesтАУand Rhodan with
it?тАФin




THE ATOM HELL OF GRAUTIER


1/ SURPRISE ATTACK



The moment theRigel came out of transition, Paul Brackett saw fleeting green flashes flit across the
oscillograph screen. Brackett was still wracked by the pain of the hypertransition but he knew at once
what the flashes meant.

TheRigel , battlecruiser of the Terran Fleet, was on its way back to the fleet base on the planet Grautier.
In the vicinity of the overlapping zone where the time-planes of the Druuf Universe and the Einstein
Universe met, theRigel had discharged supplies for the secret base on the planet Hades in the Druuf
system, transporting them by means of the matter transmitter. The operation had required several hours,
hours in which fully half the 800-man crew was kept busy keeping a watch out for the ships of the
Arkonide blockade fleet. Arkon was maintaining a constant patrol around the overlapping zone, throwing
back the Druufs each time they attempted to cross-over into the Einstein Universe. The Terran fleet base
was unknown to the Arkonides and for the time being it was TerraтАЩs chief concern to keep it that way.
That meant that Earth ships had to make use of every possible security measure for traffic between
Grautier and the overlapping zone, which was only a few light-years away and at the same time the
theatre of operations for the Arkonide blockade fleet, so that the Arkonides would not learn where the
base was.
 That had succeeded in the past weeksтАФa masterpiece of the tactics of throwing the hounds off the trail,
as everyone had to admit. However, Paul Brackett was convinced the catastrophe was now beginning.

The flashes had crossed the screen of the oscillograph towards the right and disappeared. The entire
incident had not lasted any longer than 2 or 2┬╜ seconds. But the Robot Regent on Arkon had its spies