Perry Rhodan 109 - Blockade - Lepso

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BLOCKADE: LEPSO
Kurt Brand
BLOCKADE: LEPSO
THERE’S NO BLOCKADE ON THE ACTION HERE:
PERRY RHODAN—The Solar Administrator draws no line when it comes
to Anti-crime
ATLAN—Arkonide Emperor Gonozal VIII backs the highest stake in history
PUCKY—The mousebeaver’s one small voice may be responsible for a
big choice
Reginald Bell—The Solar First Deputy may be still shaking his head over
this one!
Allan D. Mercant—The Solar Intelligence chief is stumped at last
Laoo-O—The Anti Who Knew Too Much
Tu-Poa—The fanatic who found it out
Nike Quinto, Julian Tifflor, Gen. Conrad Deringhouse—All old hands on
the battle staff… but this may be the big one!
Col. Jefe Claudrin—As Commander of the Ironduke, this Epsalian meets
the insurmountable
Brazo Alkher—The best weapons officer in the Fleet comes through again!
Col. Myler—Commander of the Solar Fleet’s 3rd Echelon
Patrizius Angustus—Commissioned by Rhodan for Mission: Blitz
Selfun and Singoll—How can all this happen without the Mounder and
Springer chiefs?
Gal-Tan—Puppet ruler of Lepso
Dr. Nearman—One-time astro-medico genius who has gone to Anti ‘rot’
Fellmer Lloyd—Tele-tracer
Ur-Gif—Famous Haematologist of Zalit
Magitt—A Zalite Foreman
U-Za, T-Moll, La-Ger—And other god priests of Baalol
Dr. Arnim Zuglert—He knows a bit about another doctor: Edmond Hugher
Dr. Edmond Hugher—When the dreamer wakes, it’s the Anticlimax!
…and the spaceships Ironduke,Wellington,Winnipeg,Alexander,Ghandi
and Barbarossa
WITH THIS BLOCKADE YOU’VE GOT IT MADE!
PERRY RHODAN: Peacelord of the Universe
Series and characters created and directed by Karl-Herbert
Scheer and Walter Ernsting.
ACE BOOKS EDITION
Managing Editor: FORREST J ACKERMAN
WENDAYNE ACKERMAN
Translator-in-Chief
and Series Cöordinator
CHARLES VOLPE
Art Director
PAT LOBRUTTO
Editor
Sig Wahrman
Stuart J. Byrne
Associate Translators
BLOCKADE: LEPSO
by Kurt Brand
A Division of Charter Communications Inc.
1120 Avenue of the Americas
New York, N.Y. 10036
BLOCKADE: LEPSO
Copyright © 1976 Ace Books
An Ace Book by arrangement with
Arthur Moewig Verlag
All Rights Reserved.
Original German Title:
“Der Blockadering um Lepso”
First Ace Printing: August 1976
Printed in U.S.A
HERE’S HOW IT HAPPENS
Prolog
1/ THE SMILING MAN OF LEPSO
page *
2/ ONE SMALL VOICE
page *
3/ THE DOGS OF WAR
page *
4/ RETURN OF THOMAS CARDIF
page *
5/ TRAIL’S END—AN OLD BEGINNING
page *
THE SHIP OF THINGS TO COME
‘Spoor of the Antis’
page *
Prolog
THE BLUE SYSTEM, Arkon’s oldest and Terra’s newest foe, has had to
surrender unconditionally. They had no choice after the space stations were
destroyed which furnished power to their system-spanning defence screen.
Deprived of this protection, it is now a certainty that in the future the Akons
will keep the peace—out of self-preservation!
But it is also a certainty that the turbulent events of recent times have
prevented Rhodan and his men—as well as Atlan—from keeping an eye on
the Antis.
So it is that the Antis have had an opportunity to pursue their nefarious
undertakings. As servants of the galaxy-wide Baalol cult they have been busy
with a 10-year plan of terror!
Investigations made on the planet Lepso by the agents of Division 3 have
already clearly shown what terrible consequences this plan can have,
affecting all Humanity as well as other galactic civilizations.
Once more the smuggler planet of Lepso is the scene of action—but this
time it isn’t a matter of minor intelligence missions. Now the entire Solar
Fleet as well as the forces of Arkon are committed to a course which can
lead to galactic war!
1/ THE SMILING MAN OF LEPSO
UNKNOWN.
He was a man unknown to himself.
Unexpectedly, on this day the old puzzle was brought to light by a new one.
Dr. Edmond Hugher had just settled quite comfortably in his favourite form-
chair. He was nicely stretched out with his feet propped up on a footstool and was
holding the weekend edition of the Terrania Post in his lap. About the only thing
that interested him in this bulky Sunday paper, however, was the crossword
puzzle.
This was the good doctor’s little side hobby because it helped the quiet, friendly
man to even forget his more serious labours at times—especially when he worked
on really high-quality puzzles. In his opinion the Terrania Post carried the best
puzzles available. This particular one had been a challenge to him but he almost
had it completed—all but two words.
No.45 horizontal: decorative encasement for weapons… 9 letters. He already
had letters R and T in the 3rd and 4th spaces. No.109 vertical: Icelandic form of
wrestling… 5 letters. All he had was the letter I in 3rd position.
Dr. Hugher groaned aloud to himself. That’s the way it always was with these
puzzles in the Terrania Post: a couple of final sticklers, almost impossible to
answer. Not unless a person were to turn to Centre and request help from the
positronic lexicon. But that was what Hugher always avoided. He was determined
to solve these puzzles by himself.
“Arkkonklegga! By the gods of Arkon!” he muttered. “What is a decorative
encasement for weapons?” He was not aware of having spoken the exclamation in
Interkosmo whereas the question had been uttered in English. “And what are they
getting at with an Icelandic form of wrestling?”
He looked up from the newspaper for a moment and his thoughts drifted off. He
was reminded fleetingly of his work which definitely had to be finished today.
“Oh for Heaven’s sake, of course! Cartouche!” Pretty sneaky of them not to
hint that the word would be French. He chuckled contentedly and used his finger
to count the letters of cartouche. There were 9 of them, just what he needed, and it
now gave him A as the 5th vertical letter. And even as he marked in the word, the
name came to him which described the Icelandic wrestling: glima.
This in itself was a puzzle. “Glima,” he said aloud. “Now where did that come
from? How is it that I have such an unusual knowledge of Terran languages?”
He lowered the newspaper while his thoughts began to drift into his past. He
recalled that he had once been a very sick man but just what kind of illness it was
had never been explained to him by the doctors on Arkon.
“It’s a miracle that you’ve recovered at all, Hugher,” they had told him.
“Unfortunately we cannot guarantee that other brain injuries won’t show up with
the passage of time.”
At the time he had ignored the remark—which had been 58 years ago. True,
people called him Edmond Hugher, but was he in fact such a person? Often he
thought he had a recollection of his parents and brothers and sisters, yet he had
never been able to actually visualize his father and mother. Their features had
always been vague and indiscernible in his memory. Had he not had three
brothers? But he wasn’t even able to say what planet he had been born on and he
was even less certain of whether or not he had ever really had three brothers.
Everything beyond or before those 58 years was obscured by a nebulous veil.
Where was I born?—he thought. Certainly I am not Arkonide, Ekhonide,
Springer or Ara, yet I seem to have inherited something from each of those races.
But what is the root source of the other part of me?
Dr. Edmond Hugher removed his feet from the footstool and the form-chair
automatically adjusted itself to his new position. In the same moment the pressing
thoughts of his past came to an end. He was not aware that an invisible shroud had
settled over the door of memory that the word glima had momentarily opened.
Of course his thoughts still lingered in his yesterdays but now they were limited
to only the past 58 years. He saw himself working on Zalit, at first as an assistant.
Later they gave him more responsible assignments but he still remained an
assistant, never seeming to advance very much. Always they put some dim-witted
Arkonide ahead of him and his protests were of no avail. He could not fight their
system of nepotism. Realizing this, he had sought to make contact with non-
Arkonides and finally was pleased to accept the offer of a Springer clan, whereby
he could work for them as a merchant chief in one of their planetary trading
settlements.
But Arkon had put its foot down and ruined everything. They pointed out the
binding clause in his contract which stated that one Dr. Hugher had voluntarily
pledged himself to dedicate all of his labours to Arkon, on the planet Zalit. In
those days he had already developed the smile that was characteristic of him
today. With an almost disturbing affability he explained that he had forgotten
about that part of the agreement and so he returned as industriously as before to
his activities on Zalit.
And then one day in his living quarters he was astounded to encounter his own
smiling likeness standing before him. At first he could not believe his eyes and his
natural reaction was to take hold of his second self and examine him from all
sides. He finally had to admit that this robotic imitation of him was complete in
every detail.
摘要：

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