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consequences within the planet itself.

And it wouldn't be pretty.

Cistolo Khan took personal charge of the crew, communicating via his SERUN's Pikosyn. As he
waited for results, he restlessly shifted his weight from one foot to the other and stared out at the sparse
grass, turned brown from the night frosts.

"Tension in the planetary crust's surface is increasing exponentially," the Pikosyn announced. "Danger
is at maximum."

Khan was not a scientist and the weight of the report broke over him like gigantic wave. All of his
fears seemed trivial in comparison with reality.

"Khan to Nathan," he said. "You have all the data from the ships. Can you give us a preliminary
high-level projection? How much time do we have?"

"Hello, Cistolo!" came the hypercom reply from Luna. "Time for what?"

"To save Trokan."

"About four months."

It sounded like a lot of time, but it was really damned little.

"I need an action plan as fast as possible."

"Very well. Preparations are already underway. I am working on it."

"Thank you. Meanwhile, we'll try to save what we can."

The two men went back inside the glider. The LFT Commissioner sank into his seat, closed his eyes,
and breathed deeply. Then he sat up straight with renewed determination. "Let's get to work, Bruno!"

Drenderbaum just sighed. "Where do we start?" He pointed to the displays on the scanner. Dozens of
hot spots had sprung up everywhere on Trokan.
 Cistolo Khan did not reply.



*



Trokan had the same mass as Mars but a somewhat greater diameter. Its density was accordingly
less, and that was now having its effect with the appearance of day and night and the new cycle of
warming and cooling. As night began, cooling in an environment with only a slight amount of heatretaining
moisture caused severe temperature differences between the surface and the deeper layers of rock.
Cracks and crevices appeared and expanded with each passing day and night. Even so, it wasn't so
much the cooling phases that eroded the stability of the planetary crust. The sudden and intense warming