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THE TROY PLOY


WHEN KHREST reveals that his ancient ancestors took the precaution of providing the
Robot Regent with a safety switch, it gives Perry Rhodan an inspiration based on the old
Greek warriors’ trick: A future Trojan horse!

Conceived on Terra. Constructed on Zalit. En route Arkon.

In the battles against the Druufs the Giant Brain has concluded that there is need for living
beings rather than robots as cannon fodder and the need is met with—




RECRUITS FOR ARKON


1/ THE FRINGE CONNECTION



"We’re far from being out of the woods yet. In fact, I think it’s getting darker!"

Perry Rhodan looked up to encounter the grave surveillance of the speaker, who sat opposite him.
Objectively he noted that the other’s red stubble of hair was lying almost flat against his head, which
though normal for most people was unnatural for Reginald Bell. The broad, rounded face reflected a
reddish complexion, and a restless fire seemed to flicker behind his pale-blue eyes.

"That’s putting it drastically, Bell, but of course you couldn’t have expressed it more precisely. If
something doesn’t happen pretty soon, it really looks bad for us and the Earth."

The old man with the white hair nodded slowly. Seated on Rhodan’s left at the conference table, his lean
figure was bent with age but something. glittered in his eyes that was still vital and young. It was
something that smouldered there like an inextinguishable fire of secret hope and trust.

Rhodan turned to him. "Khrest?" As a surviving descendant of the now extinct Arkonide ruling class, his
opinion was always respected.

"I was about to agree with Bell, as far as his statement goes," replied the ancient Arkonide, "but I
wanted to point out that the loss of ourKublai Khan has been more or less counterbalanced by a victory
of sorts. The last traces of any data have been destroyed which would have led the robot Brain to any
clues regarding the position of the Earth. There is no Topide living today who took part in the fighting at
the time of the war in the Vega sector-at least none who still knows that he was there. True, we lost the
Kublai Khan …"

"Bell was covering more territory than that," Rhodan cut in, although not contradicting. "He was thinking
of the overall situation. And that is certainly clear in the entire galaxy there are three power factors. The
first of these you might say is the Druufs because they’re going to constitute a menace for another 12
months or at least while the overlap front exists between the two time-planes. Then comes our undying