The Longest Night by Hubert Haensel

Author:Hubert Haensel [Haensel, Hubert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Fiction
Publisher: Perry Rhodan digital
Published: 2016-03-03T05:00:00+00:00

15

"Lemurians are like animals."

Ion Lissos had no reason to doubt that statement of the Old One, Necc Magot. Anyone who, like Magot, had fought against the Time Criminals at the risk of his own existence understood him.

A new battle was in the offing. This time, it was clear to Lissos, the war would be fought to its ultimate conclusion. Either victory or defeat had to be total; there was no alternative.

After Rhodan's interrogation, he had actually considered for a moment that Lemurians might have changed. If they had retained their propensity for rapid and unrestrained reproduction, the time span of more than 50,000 years meant a succession of at least 15,000 generations. That would have led to changes in their genetic make-up, perhaps even to the realization that it was wrong to experiment with time.

Time, Lissos' overbrain observed, can never be a friend. Of anyone. It is always the enemy. The most terrible enemy of all.

There was no reason to doubt that.

Lissos thought of the interrogation he had conducted. He had been disappointed and angered. Because Rhodan had been completely oblivious as to what it was all about. Lissos could have killed the man but he had still not learned anything of importance.

The more he thought about it, the more he became aware of a disquieting annoyance as well. Rhodan, that weak and diminutive Lemurian descendant, had somehow managed to confuse him. Lissos wondered how powerful these fragile two-armed creatures actually thought they were. Why did they compensate for their physical weakness with these delusions of grandeur that led them to reach for time itself?

They had learned nothing, as though time had passed them by without leaving a trace.

And it was precisely that which placed them on a level with the animals from which they had evolved. They followed only their instinct instead of using their intelligence.

The proof of that was now at hand. The information seemed both so monstrous and so overwhelming to Lissos that he would have liked nothing better than to fly in the first attack. But it was for that very reason that it was imperative not to rush anything. The awakening of all the Righteous Ones was progressing slowly, and many activities were still being carried out only by the Old Ones.

Several arsenals had still not been heard from. Either they had been destroyed or they were not communicating for more mundane reasons. Perhaps these depots had not even received the activation signal that had been transmitted at regular intervals since its first broadcast.

But all that would soon be clarified.

The alert that a surface hangar had been opened drew Lissos' attention. That was one of the assembly plant hangars in which the first thousand fast combat ships waited for action.

For a moment he even feared an intrusion by a Lemurian raiding party. Possibly the team had come through time with the mission to destroy the Paggosh Arsenal before the forces waiting here could be deployed. In a surge of rage, Lissos clenched all four fists, but then an illuminated text message appeared: Reconnaissance mission beginning in two units.

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