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by Michael Marcus Thurner
summarized on May 21, 2023
by Jerry Schneiderman
The Seal of the Grand Administrator
Das Siegel des Großadministrators
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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.