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covers an area of about 4000 square miles!"

"Where’s the logic to all of this, Freyt?" Klein interrupted him. "Is the Thatrel System and the planet
Honur so insignificant? Isn’t theTitan itself a factor of unconquerability? What can happen to Rhodan on
Honur? Nothing! After all, he has a 700-man crew on board—and the Chief has demonstrated many
times that he can get the mostest out of the leastest. So if the hytrans compensator should arrive a few
days later, where’s the disaster…?"

Freyt drummed his fingers on the desk. "All that’s very nice, Klein—it makes a nice big breeze—but it’s
not going to let me sleep nights! I know you mean well but I can’t fit it all in with what’s going on out
yonder. Rhodan may not evenbe on Honur any more. Who knows? And what can he do without the
compensator? Any Arkon ship can figure his transitions. On his next jump the whole bunch could catch
up with him. Don’t forget the Springers, the Galactic Traders—notto mention the Mooffs!"

"On that subject you haven’t briefed me very much," said Klein, hoping for a distraction at the moment.

Freyt got up and gazed reflectively out the window at the wide panorama of Terrania, Capital City of the
New Power, located in the midst of the Gobi Desert-power centre of Earth.

"The Mooffs," he began. "Those monstrosities are something of a galactic riddle.



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34,000 light-years removed from Terrania, Perry Rhodan was saying practically the same thing to
Khrest. "The Mooffs have been and still remain a puzzle—not their existence, as such, but that they
succeeded in bringing a whole world under their hypnotic power. There’s a strange contradiction here.
They’re too stupid to act on their own initiative. In fact I sometimes think they’re not fully evolved—a
child race of monsters not yet matured. So the ultimate question is: who talked the Zarlt into using the
Mooffs? Who would you say, Khrest?"

Khrest as well as Thora could be counted among those few remaining Arkonides of the elite who had
not fallen prey to the disease of indolence which was degenerating the Empire. They were all standing in
Rhodan’s large private quarters.

Khrest observed Rhodan’s tall figure for several moments. "Bell has mentioned—" He smirked slightly at
Rhodan’s frown of puzzlement. "Bell feels that it’s the Springers. At first I had the same suspicion but
later I became a bit dissuaded from the idea. You might say themodus operandi does not fit. This
procedure of using the Mooffs somehow doesn’t align itself with the mentality of the Galactic Traders.
They are in a way more straightforward, if you can use the word in connection with the Springers…" He
paused as Perry started to smile.

"Khrest, you’re being very coy in your statements but it sums it up pretty well. The Springers seem to be
in the clear where the Mooffs are concerned. But the riddle remains: who’s trying to break up your
Empire? The Galactic Traders have shown themselves to be a little sneaky in that regard, since they gave
false or half-true reports about Earth and us Earthlings to the robot brain on Arkon. Just as we are trying
to search down the origin of the Mooffs, your robot emperor has been trying to guess where in the galaxy