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after sunrise placed additional strain on Trokan's equilibrium.

Cistolo Khan placed a call to Myles Kantor. "What do you think of the proposal to provide Trokan
with a hemispherical shield against the sun?" he asked the scientist. "That would prevent warming of the
surface."

After the devastating earthquake in Moond, they had discussed other possibilities for reducing the
sun's warmth.

"Yes," Kantor said, "but we'd need more than 30,000 ships near the planet for that or a few thousand
at a greater distance. We don't have enough ships for either option."

Khan nodded gravely. He thanked Kantor and broke off the connection.

From the Paper Moon came alarm reports and their accompanying coordinates. Some new zones of
severe warming and tectonic activity had emerged and the worst was feared.

Cistolo Khan stared at the infrared scanner, which displayed an alien and threatening picture of the
planetary surface. The number of detectable hot spots had climbed to more than a hundred. In some
cases, it was only a matter of a few degrees of difference in temperature compared with the surroundings.
In most, however, the difference was rapidly rising to frightening amounts.

The LFT Commissioner turned the glider towards the nearest danger zone. At the same time, he
made com contact with the two Protos-class ships that were hovering twenty kilometres above the area
and had sounded the alarm. Khan then tapped into the two spacespheres' scans and enlarged the surface
view until he could see every bush and every tremor of the ground.

At the edge of the affected area, the infrared scan showed a scattered pattern of light and dark spots.
The dark spots were warm areas with a stable temperature, while the temperatures of some of the light
ones were rising fast.

"Those are Herreach," Khan realized. "Descend half a kilometre and use the tractor beam to move
them somewhere else."

"Where?"
 "Anywhere. Someplace where they'll be safe for the time being."

The overwhelming majority of Herreach lived as farmers on the barren steppes. With a great deal of
prudence and in harmony with their environment, they raised just as much food as the population needed
to survive without the planet's sensitive ecosystem collapsing. There were no oceans on Trokan, only a
few watercourses, and almost no rain. The thin atmosphere did not permit lush vegetation. The slight
amount of moisture necessary for plant growth resulted from the natural interplay of wind currents and the
condensation of atmospheric water vapour from warming or cooling air.

The Herreach detected by the scanners were plainly not inhabitants of one of the seven cities. They
were farmers who had no reluctance to sleep in the fields.

The increasing warmth awakened them. At first they didn't move, then they all suddenly leaped to
their feet and began running in the same direction. Even so, they were in no particular hurry.