Perry Rhodan 105 - Phantom Fleet

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105

PHANTOM FLEET

Clark Darlton

PHANTOM FLEET

THOSE INVOLVED IN THE GHOSTLY GOINGS ON INCLUDE—

PERRY RHODAN—First Administrator of the Solar Imperium

Pucky—Worlds-famous mousebeaver who’s chagrined to find himself

suddenly unknown

Reginald Bell—Rhodan’s best friend, who wants to strangle

somebody who doesn’t exist!

Maj. Heinrich Bellefjord, Cadet Gerald Rumpus and Sgt. Meister—

They pay a surprise visit to the Blue System

Geral Khor—A conscientious Arkonide

Tanor and Gagolk—Two Arkonides who act on orders of a long

deceased ruler

Col. Ludwig Rammbuggl—In charge of the Institute for Cosmic

Retraining

Pierre—Secretary of Col. Rammbuggl

Maj. Gorm Nordmann—Chief navigator of the Drusus

Capt. Benno Raldini—First officer of the Drusus

Capt. Marquardt—Security officer of the Drusus

Capt. Markowski—in charge of the arsenal of the Drusus

Lt. Fred Jenner—Radio officer of the Drusus

Dr. Louis Renner—Chief mathematician of the Drusus

Col. Kaligula—Commander of the cruisers at the border of the Blue

System

Lt. Wari Omola—Pilot of the Kenia

Metzat III—August Imperator

Gen. Conrad Deringhouse—Task Force Security Chief

John Marshall—Chief of the Mutant Corps

Betty Toufry, Ras Tschubai, Tako Kakuta and Ishy Matsu—Members

of the Mutant Corps

… and the spaceships Drusus, Kenia and Ralph Torsten

THE RACE BELONGS TO THE FLEET

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

Associate Translator

Stuart J. Byrne

Dwight R. Decker

Assistant Translators

PHANTOM FLEET

by Clark Darlton

A Division of Charter Communications Inc.

1120 Avenue of the Americas

New York, N.Y. 10036

PHANTOM FLEET

An Ace Book by arrangement with

Arthur Moewig Verlag

Original German Title:

“Die Geisterflotte”

First Ace Printing: June 1976

Printed in U.S.A

ORDER OF THE ACTION

1/ “THE MOST DANGEROUS RACE IN THE UNIVERSE”

page *

2/ S.O.S. FROM SALEX 4

page *

3/ ACCIDENTAL INVASION

page *

4/ THE IMPREGNABLE PLANET

page *

5/ ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN,

ONE GIANT LEAP FOR A MOUSEBEAVER

page *

6/ A BLACK DAY FOR TERRA

page *

7/ SPACE GHOSTS

page *

8/ ATOMIC DECISION

page *

PROLOG

AT THE END of the 21st and the beginning of the 22nd century a new epoch

has opened for humanity.

The Arkonide Atlan has succeeded in strengthening his position as Imperator

with the help of the Earthlings. The alliance of Arkon and the Solar Empire has

borne fruit—especially for the Terrans, many of whom are holding important

positions on Arkon. Atlan has to tolerate this because he is unable to rely on most

of his own people.

The Solar Empire has become the most important trading power at the rim of

the Milky Way. For 22 years a veritable stream of emigrants has colonized other

worlds. Moreover, numerous Terran embassies and trade centres are established

on planets inhabited by intelligent beings.

However the situation is not all rosy as it has been learned in the meantime that

a power exists in the Milky Way that has little sympathy for the Arkonides or

Terrans: the Akons of the Blue System!

Perry Rhodan is still deeply troubled by the worldwide pestilence which the

Akons caused. All signs lead to the conclusion that the Akons, the mysterious

ancestors of the Arkonides, consider the Terrans annoying vermin and treat them

accordingly.

What action will the Akons take next?

Spaceships patrol the Blue System in order to report any new attack—but are

unable to spot THE PHANTOM FLEET…

1/ “THE MOST DANGEROUS RACE IN THE UNIVERSE”

AN EARTHLIKE PLANET circled the blue-white giant sun. Its gravitation

measured 1.1 G; it had a dense oxygen atmosphere and an unusual light-blue sky.

The continents showed unmistakable signs of settlements by an intelligent race

with a high level of technology.

Not only was the sun blue and the sky of the 5th planet tinged with the same

peculiar hue but the entire system was surrounded by the shimmering bluish shell

of a transparent energy screen. The effect caused Perry Rhodan to name it Blue

System when he discovered the homeworld of the Akons.

He called the mysterious planet Sphinx. Sphinx had 2 moons. One was small

and of no importance but the other—about the size of Mercury—took the place of

an entire spacefleet with its matter-transmitter installations. This moon was,

fundamentally, nothing but a gigantic transmitter station. From there the Akons

were in a position to transfer goods and materials, as well as themselves and their

weapons to any point in the Milky Way, provided there existed a matching

receiver station.

If, for example, they were able to set up such a receiver station on Earth without

being noticed, there would be nothing to prevent them from launching an invasion

without deploying a single spaceship.

This they had already tried to do once before, ravaging Terra with a monstrous

plasma that brought humanity to the brink of an abyss. Rhodan was certain they

would not be satisfied with their first attempt and he realized that a mere defence

was not the best way to counter the insidious attack of the Akons. On the contrary,

it was necessary to lure the ancestors of the Arkonides from their well-protected

Blue System.

More than 3 dozen light and heavy cruisers patrolled the outside of the blue

screen of shimmering energy, attempting to find a gap. But there was no gap.

Therefore it was also impossible for the Terrans to learn anything about the events

taking place on Sphinx or its moon. At least there was no sign to indicate that

anything of an alarming nature was in process. On Terra and its Moon hundreds of

spaceships lifted off every day and nobody attached special significance to this

fact.

By contrast the Akons possessed only a few ships because they handled their

traffic of goods and passengers by means of transmitters. Ships were only required

when a new transmitter station had to be established on a hitherto unknown or

undeveloped celestial body.

A ship was preparing to be launched from the moon of the 5th planet. It was not

a very large vessel. Its spherical shape was characteristic for the Arkonides and

pre-Arkonides but both poles were considerably flattened. Technicians performed

the final inspections and they seemed to work more painstakingly than Terrestrial

engineers. But this was rather deceptive because the ship was prepared for a

special mission which required extraordinary care. The ship was no run-of-the-

mill vessel but a secret and unique construction.

The crew of the Akonian craft was assembled on Sphinx to receive their final

instructions. The mission was explained once more, the importance of success

pointed out and the effectiveness of complete surprise stressed. This attack on

Arkon—and thus directed also against Terra—was more than an experiment, the

speaker emphasized, stretching his arms toward the sky so that his palms were

turned against the blue sun. It was an ingenious combination of technology and

psychological speculation which could be grasped by an opponent only after it

was too late.

Then they formed a column and marched past the members of the government

and the scientists toward a brightly shimmering forcefield, a flaming arch of

light—the entrance to a huge matter-transmitter. When the first row of Akons

reached the arch of light it simply disappeared. It was as if they had been

swallowed by a void. The second row followed the third and all the others until

the entire column had left the planet Sphinx in this strange and almost

incomprehensible manner.

Almost simultaneously the same column materialized again on the moon. The

first row emerged from a nearly identical arch. It had traversed the distance from

the planet to its moon by a single step in less than a second. Then the column

approached the ship with the flattened poles. The officers reported their presence.

A scintillating antigrav-field was generated between the open entrance hatch and

the ground and the crew boarded the ship.

20 or 30 light-hours away the Terran warships continued their patrol. Even their

most sensitive instruments were unable to register what happened on Sphinx and

its moon. They did not react either to the start of the fairly small spherical vessel

which zoomed with increasing acceleration toward the borders of the Blue System

and applied its unknown technique to brake to the presumably impenetrable wall

of energy at the precise location.

This was the moment for which the Terrans had vaguely hoped. If it was

possible to pierce the energy wall from the inside it, probably could also be done

in the opposite direction.

The observation screens of 3 warships cruising in the vicinity caught the

shadow of the Akonian craft as it sped by. Before its course could be determined

and an effective pursuit initiated, the mysterious spaceship surpassed the speed of

light and slipped into semispace, rendering it invisible to the Terran observers.

Any further pursuit was out of the question because a transition craft could never

find or catch up in paraspace with a vessel equipped with linear drive.

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