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was being held responsible. Perhaps now his memory would return and he would find an explanation.

But when the strong headache suddenly returned to him which had hounded him during the past number
of months he lost hope again. He knew that this headache phenomenon was his greatest enemy. It was
then that the voice had often spoken to him. He remembered that there had been a time when he knew
who belonged to that voice but at present it still escaped him.

Later perhaps…



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Capt. Marcel Rous had really been assigned to a lost outpost.

As its name implied, the planet Hades resembled the gates of Hell. It was the 13th planet of the most
colossal solar system that human eyes had ever beheld. The giant binary star Siamed possessed a family
of 62 planets, almost all of which had their own system of satellites. Planet #16 was Druufon, the home
world of the Druufs.

Which was also the reason why Capt. Marcel Rous was stationed on Hades, the 13th planet. Terra’s
military base here had been hollowed out of the solid rock by the energy beams of heavy ship’s cannons
and now lay deep beneath the surface of the twilight world where life was practically impossible except
for the narrow twilight zone between the light and dark hemispheres.

But they had nothing to do with the surface areas where they could be spotted by possible patrol units of
the Druufs. After their heavy defeat in the Einstein universe the Druufs had retreated into their own time
plane and had abandoned all further attempts to expand their power. Their enemy had even taken
advantage of the retreat by destroying the space station where Onot’s latest weapon had been installed.

Just the same, Marcel Rous remained alert. If the Druufs were to discover that a Terranian stronghold
existed in their own solar system, they would strike with every force in their possession. So now the base
served only a single purpose: it must not allow the connection with Ernst Ellert to be severed.

Over 70 years ago Ernst Ellert had been a member of the Mutant Corps. His faculty of being able to
project his mind into the future had also shaped his destiny. An accident had separated mind from body.
Restlessly his mind had wandered astray in time and space, ever seeking its own plane of the present but
never finding it. What it did find, however, was a new present, which was a future plane by comparison
to its own time.

Now it possessed a body again but it was not his own. The latter lay in a mausoleum on Earth near
Terrania. Perry Rhodan, Administrator of the Solar Empire, had kept it preserved there. So the essence
of that which was Ellert lingered on Druufon, the chief world of the Druufs. He had promised to send a
signal when the time had come for him to leave his host body and when he would be able to return to the
Earth.

Approximately 1 light-year distant from Hades yawned the great rift in the universe which joined the two
time planes with each other. Only by this means was it possible to change from one plane to the other