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brains to find a way of using the generator as an energy source for his
engine. However he was aware of the fact that a robot generator produced only
1/100th of the power required by the ship's engine and was, therefore, useless
for this purpose. If they ever found a place to set down they would be lucky
if the robot still functioned. After all it was not the most unlikely
possibility that the robot had been damaged in the earlier encounter. Time
and again Tiff checked the wide optical screen showing the space in the flight
direction. The black background was strewn with myriads of silently shining
coloured points of light. Tiff had no hope whatsoever of finding there what he
was looking for. He thought it ridiculous that a traveller in space could find
a planet in a sector unknown to him by staring at the picture screen. Even if
he had his rangefinder still available, such a body would have made its
presence felt by the influence of gravitation on the course of the ship rather
than being detected by its luminosity and size surpassing those of billions of
other stars. Indeed in 99 out of 100 cases Tiff would have been
right. Notwithstanding these odds the observation screen depicted a bright
constellation which appeared to form, when Tiff first saw it clearly, a Y
shaped by seven stars. Now the left side of the Y seemed to have broken off
and the point of light which had a few minutes earlier had been at the tip had
wandered into the centre of the fork. Tiff turned around in his seat. With
narrowed eyes he stared at the picture screen. Fixed stars don't change their
positions for an observer, not even if he moves at a velocity of 12,000 miles
per second. Planets, on the other hand, show movements. At the time they
became visible they were already close enough to the observer approaching
them. From a distance of a few thousand miles and viewed in motion they
appeared to shift their positions. Tiff kept the discovery to himself because
he still believed that he could be mistaken. However 10 minutes later the
spot of light had shifted to the other side of the Y and stood within a hair
of the uppermost star. Without breaking his silence, Tiff determined the
position of the unknown body. The calculation was not very exact as Tiff
didn't know how much the gravitation of the blue sun had changed his course.
He had to make a guess by using the generally established values for stars of
this type. The calculation kept him busy for about 15 minutes. Once he had
obtained the result, Tiff acted accordingly. As the neutralizer was still
working, due to the emergency reserve power, nobody noticed it when he changed
his course again. The stars on the observation screens executed a short,
barely discernible turn. The shifting point of light, however, had moved to
the centre of the screen and Tiff made sure that it remained right
there. After the course correction he computed the speed of the destroyer.
The propulsion from his engines had ceased for some time and if he assumed
that the planet exerted the slightest amount of gravity on his ship he should
be able to notice the effect. Half an hour later Tiff was convinced that he
had been right. The velocity of the destroyer relative to the spot of light
had increased by 30 feet per second. Tiff looked around. "We've found what
we've been looking for," he announced via the helmet radio. His voice sounded
raspy from the effort to hide his triumph. 4/ Of Time & Bombs &
Planetfall Perry Rhodan fell unconscious again soon after he had whispered
his urgent plea to Nyssen. Nyssen knew what had to be done. He knew little
about the mechanism of the time-bomb except that it produced gravity in the
same way as the common gravity generators. He understood that Rhodan