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personnel replaced the striking mechanical beings within seconds. Life had to
continue.
And everything was prepared down to the last detail. The people of Terrania
worked more than 5000 special shifts; yet the assumption of many functions that
progress had delegated to machines years previously went without a hitch. It was a
reversion to the discomfort of backward times. But despite its terseness, the secret
order had made every participant realize that vital issues were at stake.
Police cars were suddenly speeding through the streets with droning loudspeakers.
"All inhabitants of Terrania! A disturbance has arisen in the central robot control
station. Please remain calm and disciplined: it will take several hours to repair. The
Ministry of the Interior will soon provide substitute vehicles steered by men. Will
guests and residents of Terrania more than 15 minutes away from their homes
please wait at the normal stops. Passengers with short distances are requested to
return by foot. There is no cause for alarm! Maintain discipline! The Ministry of
the Interior will soon."
They had opened headquarters for this campaign in Col. Freyt's office. Freyt had
meanwhile become a sort of mayor in Terrania, although that was not his official
title. He was Rhodan's deputy in the territory of the New Power and conducted the
affairs of state and of the capital whenever Perry Rhodan was away. And Rhodan
was often gone.
Perry's deputy in universal matters was Reginald Bell. The two men had a lot to
endure from the burden of 'business trips.' Most of the time they were outside: in
another country, on another planet or even in another sun system.
Freyt's task was more prosaic, although he had a strong resemblance to Perry
Rhodan in his character and in outer appearance. Mostly he stayed behind in the
Gobi as representative of his chief.
When Rhodan returned there were often long activity reports about routine
everyday affairs. Sometimes there was some excitement as well.
Like today!
Col. Freyt did not conceal his relief at Rhodan's presence. There had rarely been
hours that critical in Terrania. Reginald Bell even maintained that it was the most
exciting day he had spent since settlement in the Gobi ten years earlier.
"Our campaign worked remarkably well. Not one single report of action
completion missing and I know that precision work like that is only possible in the
New Power. But now something else has to happen."
"You'll see soon enough what happens next," Rhodan answered. "Your worrying
hasn't made the world stop yet."
"But the robots stopped. I would just like to remind you of the fat promises you
had proclaimed over mobile loudspeakers and national radio. And yet you knew all
the while that for the time being there is no possibility of reactivating the work
robots without reincurring the risk that was just eliminated."
"It's night time, pal. In the next 6 or 7 hours there will be very little thought spent
on when the robots will be intact again. The situation will get critical in the
morning when the first to awaken need coffee water. We will have to he finished
by then.
Bell only shrugged his shoulders in disbelief. He thought of the many thousands of
robots that had to be individually inspected. And humans had to do it!
They left Freyt's office and went to the elevator that brought them to the basement.
There were plenty of vehicles waiting there that could be steered manually. In
three cars they drove out of the back courtyard to the general utility hall about four