" Perry Rhodan 0019 - (13) The Immortal Unknown" - читать интересную книгу автора (Perry Rhodan)

Thora, the tall Arkonide woman and last descendant of the ruling dynasty of Arkon, stood behind the
pilot seat. Her arrogant bearing could not hide the fact that she was torn by her emotions.

Her strange love-hate relationship with Rhodan had begun at the time her exploration cruiser had
crash-landed on Luna where it was subsequently destroyed by H-bombs from Earth. Thora had escaped
at the last moment in a 60-yard-wide auxiliary ship of the Guppy class. Since the craft, namedGood
Hope , could not travel the distance of 30,000 light-years to her home on Arkon, she had become
dependent on aid by humans.

Her initial hate of Rhodan had gradually diminished. Only on special occasions did her old feelings
surface again. Such was the case now.

She was consumed by a deep rage as she stood behind the man whom she had called an
underdeveloped barbarian with the brain of a semi-intelligent ape only a few years ago when they had
met for the first time. In the interim many things had changed. Rhodan had established—against resistance
from all the nations—the sovereign state of the New Power. A major attack from the depths of the
Galaxy had been repulsed.

Vast installations had been created on Earth from Arkonide prototypes. Almost a year ago the
space-sensors stationed on Pluto had registered a strong spacestructure disturbance in the sector of the
star Vega 27 light-years away. Overcome with anxiety that superior alien forces had discovered the
Earth and with deep concern for the safety of his home world, Rhodan set out in one of the small auxiliary
crafts to have a look. This eventually led to a dangerous conflict with the reptilian race of the Topides
who were finally dislodged from the Vegan system by ingenious strategy of his Mutant Corps.

Then Khrest’s desire to find the secret of cell-conservation was rekindled. To find eternal life had
originally been his reason for coming to this distant corner of the Galaxy. His emergency landing on the
Moon,constituted a severe setback. On the Vegan planets they had discovered traces of the inhabitants
of a world who, supposedly, were in possession of the secret of cell-conservation.

Meanwhile it had come to pass that Rhodan was able to conquer one of the Arkonide super-battleships.
It was wrested by the mutants from the lizards who in turn had seized it before from the Arkonides.

Since that time Rhodan had been primarily occupied in finding answers to the puzzling questions of an
unknown intelligent personality. Someone seemed to consider it of the utmost importance to test the
integrity and wisdom of those who were seeking his secrets.

It was a physically and mentally exhausting undertaking which had strained the nerves of his men almost
to the breaking-point.

Now that they believed they were close to the discovery of the planet vanished from the Vegan system,
they were facing a flaming sun which hardly any longer resembled the star they had seen for the first time
less than a year ago.

Thora felt very bitter when she contemplated the devastating experiences in connection with the cosmic
riddles posed by an infinitely superior intelligence. Without the help of the mutants from Rhodan’s special
corps they would have met certain death on the giant planet GOL. Its pure energy devouring denizens
had not given them much of a chance.

And it had not been much better on the desolate world called Vagabond. The mouse-beavers living