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Contents
1/ Springers Vs. The Solar System
2/ PsychoрGrill
3/ Death on Snowman
4/ Pucky in Action
5/ Let Sleeping Mysteries Lie?
The Ship of Things to Come

1/ Springers Vs. The Solar Systemр

Space quaked as the structure sensors in Perry Rhodan's command centre
registered transition after transition.
Each hyperjump caused a disturbance in the fabric of the space-time continuum
sufficient that sensitive instruments could record the results.
In this case, however, the distances were not especially great: the ships emerging
from the transitions at moderate speeds were only between 7 and 21 light-years
away.
But the continuum rendings had been continuing for half an hour and the situation
was beginning to become acute for the three Earthships hovering motionless in
space, 8 light-years from the centre of gravity of the Beta-Albireo constellation.
Three gigantic spherical ships-Terra and Solar System, each measuring 600 feet
in diameter, and the 2500рfoot Stardust. The only three large units of the Terranian
Space Fleet, under the command of Perry Rhodan.
Rhodan himself had taken over as First Pilot of the Stardust and the battleship was
fully manned and ready for action. Reginald Bell assisted him as Second Pilot and
Fire Control officer. The operators of the most important communication
equipment were doubled.
The very air of the command centre seemed to pulsate with tension. There was
actually little danger that the three Terranian ships could be detected for the usual
rangefinders were reliable only up to a distance of two light-years at most; still, it
was possible that one of the Springer ships might stray into their sector by accident
and run into the nervous outnumbered Earthships.
One of the younger officers was busy checking the quantity of transitions as
accurately as possible. Rhodan wanted to know how many opponents they would
have to contend with if worst came to worst.
"Seventy-eight, sir!" the young officer replied nervously. "But there seems to be a
letup at the moment."
Bell spun round. "I don't like it," he growled in a tone low enough so that only
Rhodan was able to hear him.
Rhodan shrugged his shoulders. "Nobody asked us," he observed. "Besides, so far
we run little risk. It's not likely that one of their ships will stumble on us."
The pause lasted surprisingly long. Rhodan began to think that the 78 units the
adversary had brought in were all he planned to use for the imminent battle. Then
the transturbulence started again.
This time the Springers came from a different direction and the mean distance of
the transitioning ships was around 38 light-years. There was no doubt that it was a
second group of hostile ships but Rhodan didn't know what their connection with
the first one was.
The young officer counted 90 new transitions. Now they had to contend with 168
fighting ships!