" Perry Rhodan 0042 - (34) SOS Spaceship Titan" - читать интересную книгу автора (Perry Rhodan)

Thora, who at one time had commanded an Arkonide expedition ship, that same vessel that had been
stranded on Earth’s moon, softly placed a hand on Perry’s shoulder. The touch of the aristocratic
Arkonide woman sent a tremor down his spine. Never in 13 years of close contact had he ever
experienced her physical touch.

"Yes?" He looked up at her.

"Perry—what you are demanding from the ship’s computer brain is beyond its potential performance
limit. For the hypertransit, it would require an entire new progr—"

She was interrupted by the high, ear-shattering speaker voice of the automaton: "X minus 17… X minus
8… X minus 1…"

Thora, Khrest and everybody else standing in the command central fled to any seat they could find.

Perry was barely able to hear the final "X minus Zero!" The awful twinge at the nape of the neck
slammed in on him. Then fifth-dimensional hyperspace streamed whispering and hissing tonelessly from all
sides into the control cupola of theTitan —extinguishing everything: life, matter, energy. It devoured
everything, swept it all away. The normal world ceased to exist.

The two Empire ships had been tailgating theTitan closely. Their hyper-sensor equipment registered the
transit jump of the giant spacesphere through hyperspace and captured exact co-ordinates.




2/ HIDEOUT IN THE THATREL SYSTEM



"Okay, that’s enough!" groaned Bell. He closed his eyes in a painful grimace and rubbed the nape of his
neck.

TheTitan had just completed the fourth short hyperjump. Perry and he were the first to recover enough
to go back into action.

"We’ll see," muttered Rhodan to himself, non-commitally.

The micro-speaker hissed briefly. Then came the comp data from the hyper-sensor scans, calculated
from the moment of their first transit.

"Five jumps measured, sir!" announced the scan officer triumphantly. "Each with a distance of 8 LIMS
(light minutes) and 14-point-6 light-seconds…"
"Thank you," replied Rhodan and turned off the intercom.

Bell shook his head wonderingly. "But man, did you see that heavy space traffic? I’d sure like to have
some good statistics on the actual number of spacecraft operating in that star cluster!"

Thora called to him from her seat. "I recall that, 13 years ago, we had more than 3 million of them," she