'That isn't the point at all,' she replied tersely. She was aware that he was trying to throw her on the wrong track, and it particularly annoyed her that he seemed to succeed so easily.

'What would you lose in me? And the sight of Rhodan as a babbling idiot should give you a lot of satisfaction. 'What difference does it make to you?' he countered. Her real concern is to convince me that I am not yet sufficiently developed to grasp her secrets. How simple it is to see through her game, thought Perry Rhodan. The words would not come as fast as her frantic mind demanded. Thora stopped short without completing her sentence. Your brain will become utterly confused, and you-' 'You won't be able to understand that! You will be unable to comprehend any of the impulses. Only Perry Rhodan, with his combination of human ingenuity and Arkonide technology, had even the slightest chance of stopping the onslaught.Īnd even if he might succeed in repelling the first attack, how long could the tiny planet of Earth continue to hold off the enormous war-forces of the mighty star empire? An overwhelming space-fleet of galactic dreadnoughts was headed for Earth, its mission to turn the planet into a radioactive wasteland. Never before had the future of mankind been in such dire peril.

But for how long could the tiny planet of Earth continue to hold off the enormous war-forces of the mighty star empire? Rhodan had a chance of stopping the onslaught. Through hypno schooling, Perry Rhodan had learned the scientific knowledge of the star-roving Arkonides, and now his task was to construct a huge starship to open communication between Earth and the might Arkonide Empire.īut the nations of Earth, in their fear, destroyed the remains of the lone Arkonide research ship on the moon - setting off an alarm to summon retaliation from the war bases of the stellar empire.Īs the massive space-fleet of the galactic dreadnoughts headed for Earth, its mission to turn the planet into a radioactive wasteland, only Perry

Galactic Alarm by Kurt Mahr