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forming a closed energy screen across the entire roadway. Their concentrated
impulse fire stilled the energy of 7 attackers: 7 robots went down in flames.
But robots know no fear. Blindly fanatic, their front rolled on towards the tanks.
At that moment fire from another street downed the helicopter that had been
responsible for the wireless picture transmission within the viewcom system. All
optical contact between the street events and headquarters was cut off. Reginald
Bell let out a coarse oath.
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Ivan Goratschin was not only ugly because he had two heads. His entire
appearance made a monstrous impression. He was one of the many negative
mutants born after the first Russian atom bomb tests in Siberia. The negative
effects showed in several ways.
His size of 2л meters, his shapeless columnar legs, his scaly skin with its green
shimmer and his angular, bulky body all made him into a monstrosity.
In character and biological capacity he was almost a paradoxical mixture of good
and bad. If he hadn't mutated into an 'igniter,' he could have been regarded as
innocuous. Both heads dictated to the twin creature a patient, naive and subservient
nature. From early childhood on, his fellow men had called him a 'freak,' which
had engendered a pronounced inferiority complex in him. Thus far he had never
managed to show any individual initiative. For a whole generation his two brains
had lived in some sort of competition, which had distorted his mental capacity.
And while in relating to others the two heads were unanimous, that was no
substitute for his lack of determination.
Ivan Goratschin had developed into a truly subservient type. He wanted to serve
and be repaid in charitable love.
The legendary Mutant Master, who had covered the Earth and the New Power with
treacherous gang warfare, had been Ivan's strategic discoverer. He had taken him
from Siberia and exploited him to every evil end. Ivan was simply naive and-an
'igniter'.
This characteristic, which was later to achieve for him particular status in Rhodan's
Mutant Corps, consisted of the fact that the currents of his mind affected calcium
and carbon compounds much as heat impulse does gunpowder. The moment Ivan
Goratschin concentrated, calcium atoms entered the process of nuclear fission.
Since calcium or carbon can be found more or less everywhere, the 'igniter' could
just about kill any living creature or destroy any object as soon as he thought about
it intensely. That was when he ceased to be 'innocuous'. The destruction of the
combat robots had demonstrated that.
Ivan was standing in front of a pile of plastic and metal. The sight returned some of
his self-confidence. He was not defenceless, not even against the relentless war
machines. But he would have to be cautious and that thought caused him to hastily
retreat behind the gates through which he had just emerged.
The street remained empty. No further shot was fired. But what if he left the shelter
of the walls? Hadn't other robot eyes already sighted him from some hidden
corner? There were hundreds of windows across the street and his doom could be
lurking behind any of them.
He waited. When he finally thought of Tako Kakuta his fright returned. Why had
the teleporter disappeared? It could only be because here the air was laden with
lead and energy. It just could not be a good idea to remain lying here. All at once
the noise increased. His ears had become accustomed to the various battle sounds