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knew that Perry Rhodan was open to any reasonable idea.
The only one who seldom kept silent was Rhodan's deputy, Reginald Bell, or
Reggie, as his closest colleagues called him.
Reggie found the appropriate words to ease their inner tension. "You're all sitting
there as if they were about to serve the last meal before execution. What difference
do a few hours make till we land? At least we know the score now. After all, those
flipped-out robots have been knocking around in our territory for weeks and the
Earth is still there, in spite of any subversive activity those guys might have
already undertaken. After we've landed it will soon come to an end. I think we'll
cross up their plans but good."
Bell fell silent. Here and there someone nodded approvingly but no discussion
followed as he had hoped. Perry Rhodan issued a few orders to the observers and
requested course controls.
After this routine manoeuvre was over the silence set in again. Thoughts once
again went to the future and to the past.
So the K-9 with its commander Deringhouse and Cadet Tifflor had fallen into the
hands of the Traders. Meanwhile it was known that Tifflor and his comrades had
succeeded in reaching an ice planet on which they had hidden. Rhodan had sent
them the peculiar furry creature, Pucky, who could aid them well because of his
versatile parapsychological abilities. However, there was no more to be done for
the stranded group at the moment. The advent of Trader ship reinforcements had to
be reckoned with at any moment and they were units of Arkonide excellence. If
Rhodan wished to defeat these foes, who were his equals, he would have to attain
superiority elsewhere. And 'elsewhere' could only be found on the planet
Wanderer, the planet of eternal life.
Yet to find Wanderer was not a task for routine navigation. Astronautical
yearbooks and ephemeris tables were of no help either. The planet of eternal life
was a world without a sun. It was a vagabond that lay embedded in the
gravitational fields of the Milky Way system, able to change its course according
to the whims of its ruler.
Specifications on any given position could be made by the highly developed
positronicomputers with fairly accurate probability and the 'most intelligent'
computer available to the New Power was stationed on Venus.
This fact alone had prompted Perry Rhodan to return from the distant Albireo
System. He needed the data on Wanderer's present position in order to fetch what
he still required to be more than a match for the Traders.
Thus the alarm sent by the patrolling cruisers could by no means be regarded as
part of his scheme and yet Rhodan made the best of this fact too.
At last there was some clue to the mysteries on Earth. For the plight they were all
stuck in was steaming from Earth. Things were chaotic on Terra. For weeks the
unknown foes had escaped detection and now, due to Tifflor's effort, they had
finally discovered that the instigators were not human beings but robots.
That was reason enough to forego a landing on Venus for the present. What good
were victories far out in the galaxy if the Earth, the basis of mankind, fell
increasingly under the control of the adversary?
Rhodan deliberately did not convey the information he had received to Terrania.
He wanted his arrival to he a surprise. The enemy agents were not to realize too
early that they had been detected.
Reaching the Jupiter orbit, Stardust sent in a first dispatch, a brief statement to
inform the base in the Gobi of Rhodan's imminent landing.