Perry Rhodan #1290 Stalker Contra Stalker (Arndt Ellmer) I Paulo Darma1970

Perry Rhodan No. 1290 Stalker vs. Stalker "The Hansa Caravan in Fornax – Anson Argyris in the Footsteps of the Past" by Arndt Ellmer The euphoria with which tens of thousands of vironauts left their home galaxy, the Milky Way, in the year 429 of the New Galactic Calendar (NCG), to live the great stellar adventure in the twelve galaxies of the ESTARTU Power Concentration, had already given way, by mid-year 430, to a realistic and sober assessment of the situation—at least for those who managed to preserve their capacity for judgment without illusions. The much-lauded miracles of ESTARTU revealed their true face—a face that radiates multiple horrors and a dark and deadly threat. The vironauts have already experienced events that totally contradict their worldview. Still, they must now continue participating, whether they want to or not, for they have already been incorporated into the system, reduced to cogs in a gigantic machine controlled and directed by the Eternal Warriors. Meanwhile, in the Milky Way, Sotho Tal Ker—or Stalker, as the Terrans call him—the emissary of ESTARTU, to whom the vironauts owe their current fate, continues to weave his intrigues undisturbed. What Stalker truly wants remains obscure to most people. Not even Anson Argyris, the robot-emperor of Olymp and designated leader of the Hansa caravan to ESTARTU, can see everything clearly. In this context, an extremely “close” encounter with the Sotho occurs—in the STALKER AGAINST STALKER duel…