" Perry Rhodan 0097 - (89) Powers Price" - читать интересную книгу автора (Perry Rhodan)

The 100,000 people on Arkon 1, 2 and 3 are nothing more than a drop of water in the ocean. ThatтАЩs
why you see only robots here. Without the mechanical men, Arkon would have had to give up a long
time ago."

"ItтАЩs not far from that now. This morning, I heard the Commander talking with the Chief on the radio.
Not only did they say that we would be soon leaving this horrible robot planet and its giant brain but the
Chief also said that the whole Imperium was nothing but a lot of rebellious good-for-nothingsтАж"

"Perry Rhodan certainly didnтАЩt phrase it like that, Carl. Hey, look! Here comes a car out of the
mammoth positronic dome. I wonder if itтАЩs coming over here?"

The huge domed structure of the positronicon extended over 100 square kilometres, dominating this part
of Arkon 3. It stood out against the sky like a mountain and was flanked on the right and left by industrial
structures.

The two young men watched the car coming towards them at high speed. Then it suddenly swerved to
the right andтАФflipped over! A bright column of fire flashed from the wreck and then, with a furious crash
of thunder, the vehicle, still turning on its own axis, exploded like a tiny blazing red sun.
 Carl Vertieden and Peter Breucken had no time to cry out. As they were about to run over to the scene
or the accident, the ultra-swift vehicles of Arkon 3тАЩs robot-police were already racing to it and had soon
sealed off the area.

"Good heavens!" said Carl Vertieden impressed, even though just a few minutes before he had spoken
rather critically of the robot world of Arkon 3.

"The police donтАЩt react that quickly even on Earth," Peter commented. "But perhaps we Terrans are
better off for it than these Arkonides. You ought to take a look at the assembly lines, Carl! The robots
manufacture spacespheres the way we do cars! Do you know what IтАЩve done a few times? IтАЩve been
looking at the ground and to this minute I havenтАЩt seen a single bit of open soil. Sometimes IтАЩm on the
point of believing the old Arkonides built this world out of iron and steel so that they could make it into
one gigantic factory. Our lunar factories are as nothing compared with this planetary industrial giant."

"Make us look bad, will you!" demanded Carl. "тАШAs nothingтАЩ, you call us! What are we here for then.
Because Atlan needs help. Atlan is at his witsтАЩ end."

"Carl, youтАЩre often just a babbler!" Peter interrupted. "Are you forgetting Perry RhodanтАЩs son, the
miserable traitor! It was Thomas Cardif who first put Atlan in this exposed position, and what, do you
suppose I would think of you if you didnтАЩt come to my aid in a desperate situation? After all, the Chief
and Atlan are friends."

Then the pole-hatch intercom loudspeaker sounded. "Please report one at a time to First Officer Pasgin
about the accident!"

With one step Peter Breucken stood before the communicator and switched on the vidscreen as well.
"Petty officer Breucken of Gunpost 2, reporting as ordered to the First OfficerтАж"

"Come to me in person," Joe Pasgin interrupted tersely. "Who else is with you?"

"Petty officer Vertieden from the transformer section!"