Perry Rhodan (029) A World Gone Mad by Perry Rhodan

Author:Perry Rhodan [Perry Rhodan]
Format: epub
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Publisher: Unknown
Published: 2010-01-03T09:01:09+00:00

formations. Slowly and carefully he steered his rocket down to the surface and finally sat down on a plateau on top of one of the highest peaks which towered hundreds of feet above most of the others.

From this base he could survey all directions and the view encompassed more than 70% of the sky due to the extreme curvature of the surface.

There was a small depression at the middle of the plateau, just big enough to hold his pursuitship. If he went to the trouble of covering the top of the rocket with some of the numerous loose rocks lying around, it would be impossible to detect the ship no matter how closely a pilot flew over it.

Harnahan studied it with great care before he manoeuvred his craft into the hollow by means of a weak antigrav field surrounding him. It finally came to rest so that the canopy barely extruded from the shallow hole.

The gravitation scale indicated only 0.01 G. This was extremely low, so low in fact that he would have to be very careful not to exceed the escape velocity by an inadvertent movement putting him in orbit around the moon as a satellite.

Harnahan looked at his watch. It was time to settle down. He closed the helmet of his pressure suit and squeezed through the little hatch which served as a simple airlock. He didn’t even bother to take a weapon. What for? There was nobody here to menace him and he also wanted to have his hands free to collect the rocks and heap them on the hull around the canopy although it really wasn’t hard work to pick up the stones which were light as feathers.

Harnahan had frequently been out in space and the lower gravity of the moon was no new experience for him. Nevertheless it was a little different here. As soon as he crawled out of the rocket and raised himself up, the mountain top receded below him as if he had pushed himself away with a kick. He ascended more than a hundred feet and slowly turned over. The sky revolved around him and he believed for a harrowing moment he was falling into the universe. With a few purposeful movements he slowed down his rotation. Eventually the surface of the moon appeared again below him and came gradually closer. He was falling.

He came down about 500 feet away from the rocket and landed on the slope of the peak, where he instinctively tried to hold onto an outcropping. Then he broke out into laughter, the carefree laughter of a boy who got away with some well-planned mischief.

He focused up the incline of the peak onto the plateau and pushed himself gently up. He was propelled like a projectile above the rim of the platform and floated down close to the rocket.

Now he had gained confidence that he could move around in any direction on this world. It was simply a matter of adaptation and a little practice.

There were more than enough stones strewn around.

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