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

going to go wearing a suit that once belonged to him and say: "I know this is really your suit but because I
took it from somebody else and not from you, I’m going to keep it." That wouldn’t be very diplomatic,
would it?’

‘You’re so right,’ Bell readily admitted. ‘Okay, great - we’ll fly theGanymede to Arkon. We’ll land
there and say: "We’ve come from Earth and we’ve brought with us two shipwrecked people from your
planet. - Now help us so our world won’t fall into the hands of the Springers." - Right?’

Rhodan laughed. ‘I wish I knew how things will go when we get to Arkon but if they don’t get too
complicated I’ll remember your suggestion!’



The day of departure was fast approaching!

Thora and Khrest, the Arkonides, were the first to move into their new quarters aboard the gigantic
Ganymede . It looked as if they hoped their early move would somehow prevent any further
postponement.

It was a new Thora that Perry saw these days. Her radiant red eyes sparkling with vivacity, she was
beautiful, like an alien goddess. The obstinacy that had been the most outstanding trait in her character
over the last 13 years had prevented Rhodan from realizing hat he loved her. Now it was becoming
obvious to him with pressing clarity.

Direction of the purely technical preparations fell to Bell and he carried out his tasks with the
inexhaustible zeal of a man about to embark on a great adventure and hardly able to wait.

Bell oversaw the transfer of one of the two teletransmitters - the most important weapon of all - from the
Stardust to theGanymede . He also made sure that the structural compensator, a device found on board
theGanymede when it was commandeered from the Springers, lived up to what its name promised.

It did, producing a protective field that absorbed the disturbance of the space-time continuum which
betrayed the transition of a spaceship. As long as the structural compensator was in operation, no one
would be able to locate theGanymede by any disturbance it caused in the fabric of space.

Bell also took care of installing 27 three-man destroyers in the newly-added ship’s nose, as well as the
loading of twoGazelle -class scouts. The latter were flat, discus-shaped craft, considerably thicker at the
centre than at the edges, and were 90 feet long and over 50 feet wide.

Col. Freyt, nominal commander of theGanymede , supervised the boarding of its thousand man crew,
seeing to it that all were able to find their way about and knew where their posts were.

The preparations for the launch required a week, a short time considering the size and importance of the
undertaking. Rhodan had been forced to compromise between the haste demanded by the threat of the
Springers against the Earth and the care necessary for an expedition like this one.

The schedule was held to. Despite the shortness of time allowed for preparation, a comprehensive series
of tests concluded five hours before liftoff showed that everything aboard the ship was in order and ready
to go.
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