" Perry Rhodan 0038 - (30) To Arkon" - читать интересную книгу автора (Perry Rhodan)

For 13 years Perry Rhodan promised to take Thora and Khrest, the Arkonides back to their
own parent planetary system. In five hyper-transitions the great spaceship Ganymede takes
Perry, Thora and Khrest To Arkon.



But in between comes interception! The Ganymede is forced to land on Naat. Rhodan and
his friends are captured, and their ship immobilized beneath insurmountable energy fields.



They must contact the Akonide authority on Naat to negotiate their release so that they may
go on to their goal. And if Perry, Thora and Khrest get to Arkon, the Arkonides will find that
things have radically changed for them at home during their absence.




1/ THE METHANE BREATHERS OF MOTUN



‘A monster! - she’s a monster ship!’ Reginald Bell, Perry Rhodan’s righthand man, was overcome with
awe and reverence as he stood at the base of a tall slender spaceship and stared up towards its apex.
The great stellar vessel made the short red bristles on his head stand up almost as if in a salute to its
man-made magnificence.

The object of Bell’s overwhelming emotion was theGanymede , the New Power’s latest space-destined
giant. It seemed slender only towards someone situated at its base; as Bell was, and looking up; for the
foreshortened perspective was deceptive. In actuality the ship was a gigantic cylinder over 2500 feet tall
and 600 feet in diameter. Originally the total length had been only about 2380 feet but a sharply tapering
nose-cone measuring another 200 had been added in the shops at Terrania.

TheGanymede stood on four legs projecting from its enormous tail-fins. A massive metal monster, a
colossus so huge that one could scarcely imagine its titanic tonnage could ever move an inch off the
ground . . . let alone leap for the stars.

‘A monster,’ Rhodan observed, ‘as long as you don’t compare her with theStardust .’

But theStardust stood six miles away and its mighty spherical body appeared only a relatively dull disc
against the violet sky of late evening.

‘So we’re flying to Arkon,’ said Bell, switching to a new topic without removing his eyes from the
Ganymede . ‘And in this ship!’

‘That’s right, Rhodan affirmed. ‘In this ship.’

‘Why not theStardust ?’

‘Because it’s an Arkonide ship. If I pay a call on Mr. Thompson, whom I’ve never seen before, I’m not