XPost: alt.fan.perry-rhodan
In rec.arts.sf.written Lynn McGuire <
[email protected]> wrote:
"Power Key (Perry Rhodan #78)" by K. H. Scheer
https://www.amazon.com/Power-Key-Perry-Rhodan-78/dp/B0012G1582/
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There is a very good explanation of the plot in German on the
Perrypedia German website of all of the PR books. There is automatic
Google translation available for English, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese,
French, and Portuguese.
https://www.perrypedia.de/wiki/Der_Schl%C3%BCssel_zur_Macht
There is alternate synopsis site at:
https://www.perryrhodan.us/summaries/86#
<snip>
Perry Rhodan has been informed by Atlan and Khrest that the Robot Regent
of the Arkonide Empire probably has a secret deactivation circuit. And
the Robot Regent is recruiting sentients to replace the robot commanders
of the vast Arkonide spaceship fleets. So Perry Rhodan, Bell, and 200 scientist soldiers change themselves to look like Zalites and transport themselves to the Zalit home world, just three light years away from
Arkon. The groups then are transported to the Arkon home system for integration into the Arkonide space ships.
Love lost afflicts an ageless Atlan:
As I jumped aboard the medium-speed transport band, I
glanced back at the gunshop. When I had gone into that
shop the first time I had been attended by a young
Arkonide girl.
I smiled to myself for I could remember how I had
sought for an excuse to meet her again, just before my
departure.
What must have become of her? Where were her mortal
remains resting now? She had only been a few years
younger than I. With crystal clarity I saw her face
appear before my mind’s eye. She had held her breath
when I came into the shop, for the symbol on the chest
of my uniform identified me as the Crystal Prince and
future ruler of the stellar empire.
Someone jostled me. A Zalite officer, having fallen
on the band, apologized disconcertedly.
Never before had I so strongly felt how old, how
terribly old and forgotten I was. I was an oddity: a
young looking being with smooth checks, firm muscles
and a tall, exercise-steeled body.
Only internally was I an old man. My lifetime of
experience ill-matched my appearance of blooming youth.
I had seen great peoples and cultures come and go. I
had stood at the cradle and the grave of the Eastern
Roman Empire and I had desperately tried to save the
lives of Christian martyrs until I realized that they
had not needed me.
Danke,
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