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He knew that the responsible officers did not think any differently than he. The attack on Arkon had
been pending for two years and in the past few months the men had found their impatience difficult to
bear. When the order to start had come, the entire fleet had given out a yell of enthusiasm.

Deringhouse looked again at the radar screen: 500,000 men were feverishly awaiting their chance to
show what they were made of.

Arkon, watch out!

At 1136 hours Terrania Time, the flagship radar station picked up an impulse originating from the
transition of an unknown spaceship 500 light-years away. Gen. Deringhouse was informed of it but he
paid the matter no especial attention. The Arkonide blockade fleet was waiting 500 light-years away for
the Druufs to attempt another intrusion. One of the Arkonide ships had probably made a short transition
and thus given off the brief impulse.

It was nothing to worry about.



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Paul Brackett had been instructed to leave the Grautier system as fast as he could. The base commander
on Grautier had come to this decision without alerting Perry Rhodan but it was clear that in this case
Rhodan could not have made any other choice. The Arkonides must not discover Grautier. That was
assured only if theRigel left the system again and did not speed directly towards the base.

Maj. Brackett started into transition once more within a few minutes. He knew that his frequency
damper was out of order and that the Arkonides would be able to detect the second transition as well.
He hoped it would confuse them, even though that was basically a rather suicidal hope. Confusing the
Arkonides meant drawing them after theRigel , and only the dragon-headed, scaly-skinned god of the
old Topides knew what they would do with a single Terran ship when they found it.

The transition put theRigel almost exactly 30 light-years away from Grautier in a direction that led neither
to Earth nor the assembly point of the warfleet under Gen. Deringhouse.

The men stood ready by the ships energy guns. Brackett had let it be known that if attacked, theRigel
would defend itself against even the most overwhelming odds.

But they were not attacked. The Arkonides did not come.

What came were the clearly evident impulses of at least 1000 transitions following one another in rapid
succession 30 light-years away.

There could be no doubt about what that meant. Paul Brackett felt his mouth go dry.
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