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mutant Fellmer Lloyd.

In a deep bunker away from the area of the base proper, they were occupied with calculating the final
details of the action against the Arkonide Robot Regent with the help of a large positronicon.

They began with the work shortly after 1100 hours, Terranian Time.

At 1134 hours, a battlecruiser named.Rigel commanded by Maj. Paul Brackett had finished its task in
the overlapping zone and, observing all security measures, was on its return flight to Grautier.

The four men on Grautier had divided the work among themselves and laboured with the utmost
concentration of men who wanted to complete their work as quickly and as thoroughly, as possible.

The first interim report came from Reginald Bell. In front of him lay a sheet of computer printout paper,
covered from top to bottom with letters and numbers, he read it through carefully, then cleared his throat.

"We have to put off Zero Hour for at least 4 hours," he said. He continued to stare at the sheet of paper,
not looking around. However, he was certain that the others had interrupted their work to look up at him.

"Too many alternate possibilities?" asked Rhodan.

"Right," Bell answered. "The computer came up with 2433 different branch possibilities. Each branch
divides in the middle into 5 subpossibilities, which partly come together again towards the end." Then he
looked up and continued. "All this information has yet to be programmed into the shipsтАЩ cybernetic
sections. We could certainly put the program itself together in half an hour but it would take us longer to
distribute it among all the ships."

Perry Rhodan had turned his seat and now sat with his back to the programming counter. On his right
was Atlan, who sat with his left elbow against the counter top, supporting his head in his left hand. The
Arkonide looked thoughtfully at Reginald Bell.

"I suggest we delete all branch possibilities and their sub-branches with less than 0.4 probability," said
Atlan. Rhodan smiled faintly. "I see the Admiral is renouncing his usual caution and is declaring himself
ready for taking simplified steps," he said mockingly; but there was no mirth in it.

Atlan turned his head. "You know we canтАЩt delay the Zero Hour as long as we might like. The Regent
has ships everywhere. ItтАЩll know the score as soon as it discovers an assembling of Terran ships and after
that itтАЩll be too late for us."

Rhodan nodded. "I know that. But if I eliminate all branch possibilities with less than 0.4 probability, IтАЩll
be taking an enormous risk. 0.4 is not a little when you consider that a figure of 1.0 makes a certainty out
of the possibility."

Atlan shrugged his shoulders.

"LetтАЩs take a clear look at this for once," suggested Reginald Bell. "The probability calculator of the
positronicon has found all together about 5000 stem possibilitiesтАФin other words, 5000 different ways in
which the Regent might conceivably react to our attack. All these 5000 together have a probability of
0.98тАФwhich means that whatever the Regent does will most likely be one of those 5000 possibilities.
The remaining 0.02 left from an absolute 1.00 is divided into 10,000 more possibilities which the