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CONTENTS
1/ MENACE OF THE SILVER ARROWS
2/ PUCKY IN PERIL
3/ ROBOTS VS. ROBOTS
4/ ELEVATION TO GODHOOD
5/ REVOLUTION #2
6/ SAVIOR OF THE UNIVERSE


1/ MENACE OF THE SILVER ARROWS
NO MIRAGE.
The silver arrow was certainly no mirage-its image was right there on the
telescreen. Seemingly motionless, it hung among the thousands of stars that
constituted the centre of the Milky Way. This inner centre had a diameter of only
30 light-years and a volume of more than 8000 cubic light-years. In an average
cubic light-year there was one sun.
"There's another!" Maj. Lan Koster, in charge of the EX-238, tried,
understandably, to keep his voice calm but his excitement was immediately
detected. And no wonder, for his first officer was Homunk, an android from the
planet Wanderer.
"This time we mustn't lose it, sir," said the artificial humanoid. "We're getting
closer and closer to its probable base-and we've got to find it."
Lan Koster nodded agreement. He was a middle-aged man, corpulent yet lithe. A
look at his papers would have revealed, to one's surprise, that he had been in
charge of various space exploration craft for nearly 20 years.
"Direct course toward alien object!" navigation officer Koster commanded and
then turned toward Homunk. "Take over now, Homunk. I have to. er. talk to
my commander. You understand."
The android nodded. Something like a human smile flickered over his almost
Terran features, then he took his place in the commander's seat vacated by Koster.
The next second he seemed to have forgotten the major. He lifted his eyes to the
front screen. It was as if he were trying thus to hold onto the alien ship that they
had now been following for hours.
Lan Koster left central control and slowly proceeded toward the main elevator. He
took his time. He had every reason to, for when he rightly thought about it, this
was the craziest assignment of his life.
Never before had he had such a mixed crew aboard, especially if he counted the
passengers along with the crew. He could put up with Homunk, even though the
android seemed to have little sense of humour. Also the research robot FR-7 would
do in a pinch, even though he was always wanting to be smarter than anybody else
and was fully aware of the superiority of his positronic thought processes. As to the
rest of the company-except for the basic crew.
Koster sighed. He entered the antigravitation elevator and floated downwards.
As for himself, he would have thought it perfectly normal to decline the
assignment. Not really because it was particularly dangerous-that would hardly
have put Koster off-but because of the conditions connected with the
undertaking.
First of all, Homunk. An artificial man, an android had become his first officer and
deputy. Koster had nothing against Homunk except that he just wasn't human. But
he was the personal adviser and friend of Perry Rhodan and that was decisive.