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there were rather amusing and would have been quite harmless in spite of their uncanny telekinetic
capabilities had it not been for their irresistible urge to play with everything in their reach. This was a
characteristic of the fairly intelligent beings. They started to play with the ship’s machinery and eventually
with its weapons.

The mouse-beaver Pucky, who had come aboard as a stowaway, caused dire trouble for Rhodan’s
ship. It was solely Pucky’s fault that they had arrived four weeks late in the Vegan system.

Thora pressed her lips together in indignation. She acknowledged Bell’s questioning side-glance only
with an inimitably disdainful tossback of her head.

If Thora, the commander of the destroyed exploration cruiser, deigned to recognize anyone at all from
Terra, it could only be Perry Rhodan. Here she had met a man as hard as rock.

"I’d fly a little faster," she remarked provocatively. "Maybe you can destroy a great part of the surface!"

Rhodan’s eyebrows moved up. Calmly he passed his instructions to the engine room. Then he looked
into Thora’s burning eyes. They had a slightly reddish tint which created a strangely contrasting effect
with her more white than blond hair. She presented a fascinating appearance.

"Ferrol will survive it," he replied. "You’ll have to give up the trip you planned. I’ll take off again as soon
as the auxiliary ships have returned to their hangars."

With an Arkonide battleship of the mighty Imperium Class," she scornfully said; "with a ship that’s really
mine."

"You’re quite wrong, my dear. Your sleepy compatriots have lost it to the Topides. I’ve, won it from the
lizards and put it back into action. As far as the Arkonide empire is concerned, it had already lost
Stardust II when the invaders took it over. Haven’t we already debated this for hours on end?"

Khrest smiled gently as usual. He had sympathy and understanding for both, sides. Then he said a little
dejectedly:

"Perry, although I’ve come to this sector of the Galaxy to explore a mysterious planet, I’m now definitely
of the opinion that we ought to give up the idea. We’ve arrived four weeks too late."

"I meant to teach that mouse-beaver a lesson," Bell complainingly interjected, "but I wasn’t allowed to."

He glanced reproachfully at the Commander.

"That has nothing to do with it." Khrest shook slowly his high-domed head whose non-human brain had
the additional gift of a photographic memory.

"We ought to desist, Perry," Khrest again implored him. "I’m convinced that it was the unknown
mastermind who converted Vega into a nova. We know from sad experience that all solutions of riddles
and tasks are conditional in time. Vega is going to explode and we’ll thereby lose our hard-found
reference point,which means in mathematical terms that we’ll never be able to locate the wandering
planet."

The first mountains appeared on the observation screen. They approached at dreadful speed.Stardust II