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10,000 YEARS PAST



THE SUNKEN WORLD–what was it like before it sank?

One man of the future knows for he wasthere , in its prime and at its end.

The Crystal Prince… the immortal… Time’s Lonely One:Atlan!

Atlan the Arkonide, already eternal, while Rhodan and Bell, aboard the spaceshipDrusus ,
have landed on the synthetic planet Wanderer in order to seek a boon fromIt , the
mysterious multiplex intelligence–another ‘draught’ from the ‘Fountain of Youth’.

When something unexpected occurs which causes Pucky to fear for the lives of Rhodan
and Bell, Atlan cuts short his flashback to the ancient island, where we witness—




THE LAST DAYS
OF ATLANTIS


1/ RUNAWAY REJUVENATION



A CELESTIAL ORB synthetically constructed by means of an unimaginable technology, it was a world
without horizons.

Super-intelligent beings had built and established something here that forced an exclamation of
wonderment and admiration from my lips during those first moments of my arrival.

Far overhead near the barely discernible defence screen, the glowing ball of an artificially created sun
glided along its prescribed course. On the planet Wanderer, so named by Perry Rhodan, technological
and scientific perfection reigned supreme. After having looked about in the various control rooms I
realized that all the knowledge and skill of my own venerable race was meagre by comparison, having
been far surpassed by what I saw here.

An apparently ancient galactic people had immortalized here what we Arkonides had only hoped to
discover someday. When I thought of Arkon, my distant home, I was overcome again with sadness, and
yet upon closer self-inspection I realized that my longing and nostalgia for the tri-planet world of my
origin was not as burning as of yore.

Slightly more than half a mile away from my position, the gigantic steel hull of a spaceship towered into
the blue sky of this synthetic world, which had been surrounded by a mighty screen of energy. It was the
Drusus , a super battleship of Arkonide design but constructed on Earth.
 Nothing had convinced me more of the rise of the formerly barbaric human race than this latest and most
modern addition to the Terranian spacefleet. Its spherical hull was approximately 1 mile in diameter,