Satou Bezpalky, Admiral of the Solar Fleet, contacts
Sascha Liebkind, with whom she shares a common past, who is on a tracking
station outside of the TERRANOVA screen and asks him for a favor. She transmits
to him a secret dossier about what happened when the Yaqana was received in the
Solar House. Above all, he should keep an eye on the TLS, as it often has
different interests than the fleet. She turns to him because she trusts him
absolutely. In return, she promises to have dinner with him.
Flashback
Suyemi Taeb fights her way out of the panic wave and
talks to her extra sense. Bruno Boukarina has disappeared. She calls Aurelia
Bina and receives the order to follow the fugitive. Using NATHAN, she
determines the most likely possibilities. Using an antigrav scooter, she
follows a lead out of Terrania, towards Ulaanbaatar.
She is actually on the right track, but Boukarina,
who is now traveling with a companion, sets a trap for the agent. Taeb collides
with a rock face in the Altai Mountains, but survives with only minor injuries
thanks to the safety technology of her vehicle. She tracks down the culprit and
an accomplice. She fires the thermal beamer at both of them. The accomplice
dies and Boukarina's legs are blasted. He crawls on the ground and in turn
blasts a palm-sized disk. He then announces that the Light Bearers Club will
save everyone and dies.
Present
Taeb and Liebkind now confer with Terran Resident
Laura Sakinga and League Resident Cascard Holonder, as well as Aurelia Bina and
Homer G. Adams. The holo on Boukarina's blasted disc leads Liebkind to suspect
that an immortal is behind the Light Bearers' Club. It was also determined that
Boukarina made an ultra-compressed message shortly before his death.
Ultimately, Liebkind and Taeb are given the task of
observing the Yaqana that have been taken to Luna. Their ship is parked in the
Theophilus shipyard on Luna to be repaired there. Right next to it is the
Clifton Callamon shipyard, where the RAS TSCHUBAI is currently being repaired.
For this reason, the security regulations there can be greatly increased
without immediately calling the media into action.
Flashback
2432 AD, at a shipyard, the CONDOS VASAC infiltrates
a GALAXY-class ultra-battleship in order to capture it. The plan supposedly
fails, the attackers can be repelled. A captured officer is confronted by SolAb
Chief Allan D. Mercant. However, Mercant only learns that the CONDOS VASAC had
planned exactly this. The injured man had implanted a bomb in himself, which he
detonated.
Present
Nording Gollokai confers with his accomplice Pasch.
Gollokai hardly cares about the loss of Boukarina. Using Amuscarcin, which
causes psychic bondage to him, he has created many puppets that can be
activated for use with a short command. His goal is an attack of the RAS TSCHUBAI.
To do this he still has to trigger a few people, meanwhile Pasch has to keep
NATHAN at bay.
Seq, the Yaqana commander, has chosen a new mount,
Apä, after the death of his Katü Psü. Liebkind offers Seq a visit to a
desert-like recreation facility with a dozen of his kind and their Katüs. He
agrees while Taeb says goodbye. NATHAN has contacted the agent directly and has
two Ylants pick her up and bring her to the Ylatorium.
Here he shares his findings with her. He alerts her
to a hypercom message received on Terra on June 20th from the Nomad ship GUY
FAWKES STRIKES AGAIN. So from before the Yaqana arrived in the Sol system with
their ship. Two days later, the IP of the Nomad ship was registered again, but
this message then broke off suddenly. NATHAN then ordered an Explorer ship to
the location where a probe only found a wreck. This all happened near the home
system of the Yaqana. The lunar brain now intuitively believes that the
insectoids were deliberately directed to Terra, but has no idea who initiated
this, NATHAN lacks the relevant references.
Flashback
2432 AD: The death of Mercant and the attack of the
CONDOS VASAC were only part of a simulation, many of which the defense chief
ran through. With the results he leaves Pluto to discuss them with the Grand
Administrator and Reginald Bull. Mercant sees enormous power potential in the
up-and-coming CONDOS VASAC that could reestablish itself. Above all, he sees
technology theft as a major threat. To prevent this, he submitted his idea of
the Grand Administrator's Seal to the two.
Present
As a distraction, Nording Gollokai first activates
two of his Amuscarcin victims near TAIL-EYE 17.
At the same time, Taeb and Liebkind are questioning
the IQIQ on-board Positronic system of the TAIL-EYE 17. In doing so, they find
out that a personnel hatch on the ship may have been opened on June 22, 2096 NGE
and unauthorized access was gained. Then the conversation is abruptly
interrupted because a major fire has broken out at the Theophilus shipyard. In
addition, people running amok in the area of TAIL-EYE 17 are reported. Taeb
and Liebkind split up to stop the two gunmen near the TAIL-EYE.
In the meantime, Nording Gollokai is navigating the
RAS TSCHUBAI unmolested, his destination is the Semitronic ANANSI, which is
still in disarray. Taeb and Liebkind also go to the TSCHUBAI, they realize that
everything else is just a distraction. NATHAN reports that he's finally managed
to identify the main culprits, maintenance technician Nording Gollokai and the
defector Ylant Pasch. Liebkind picks up the trail of the Ylant, but cannot
catch him. Suyemi Taeb confronts Gollokai, but falls for his charade and lets
him go in order to supposedly save ANANSI. However, this turns out to be a holo-projection,
because ANANSI was not in any danger at all. The target of the entire action
was the Seal of the Grand Administrator, which was stored hidden in the depths
of the Clifton Callamon shipyard and has now been stolen by Pasch, as NATHAN
reports.
Flashback
In the year 2435, Allan D. Mercant is with his Posbi
aide Daffodile on the CATO, a newly commissioned ultra-battleship. There he
demonstrates the Seal of the Grand Administrator, which SolAb engineers worked on
intensively for three years. The unforgeable brain wave pattern of Perry Rhodan
was written on the inconspicuous Howalgonium plate. This will make it possible
in the future to switch off the most important technical systems of spaceships
in the fleet via hyper-radio. For this purpose, a receiving part was hidden in
each ship by an autonomous robot, which then self-destructed. After the
demonstration, Mercant destroys the Posbi because he would be too dangerous if
captured. Only a very small group of people is aware of the existence of the Seal.