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There he is! Looks like I’m just in time.
Mayday! Mayday!
Heavens! My sources were correct: Drake’s attacking the King of Kings!
All trideo componentsare working. This will be
the scoop of my life!
Here I go!
I’ll copy the frequencyof the pirates’ transmitter. Look out, Captain Drake!
This is Leo Roa, fromthe Starship STARR! You are surrounded, and an explosive
charge has been placedon your ship’s central
motor core…
?
…which I’ll detonate unless you surrender immediately.
By a thousand suns, who’s this idiot?
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He’s not bluffing, Captain! The central core’s signal light
is on! What do we do?
Curses! I can’t take that risk! Unhook the magnetic grapples!
We’ll surrender!
Something’s happening! They’re releasing the grapples! We’re free!
Someone saved us!it’s a miracle!
Look over there! A man floating in
space!
Much better, thanksto you. You came justin time. Come aboard!
is everybody okay?
We can’t thank you enough! How did you manage to beat
Drake all by yourself?
Well, I went intothe central core, and
planted a miniature transmitter which
fooled the…
Hey, that’s Leo! Leo Roa, the famous
STARR journalist!
I don’t believe it!
Please allow me, Mister Roa… nobody
back on Earth will ever believe this… Kiss!
Kiss! And one more… kiss!
Oh…Ah…I--
My hero!
no, no! not now!
Damn it!
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During the best part, too!But, I have to get up, I can’t
afford to be late.
Urgent call from STARR, urgent call!
Hey, it’sthe visiophone!
What’s going on?it’s hardly dawn, I’m not
even late yet.
ouarf!
Oops, sorry, Bruft. Start contact.
Hello!
Mister Roa,please report to the office at once.
it’s extremely urgent!
Urgent?I’m on my way! But
what’s the--
Just hurry!
Endcontact.
At long last,an urgent summons!
They must have realized what I’m worth!
My days of storing data in the awful Archive
Division are over!
For months I’ve been trying to…Heavens! The visiophone again!
What a morning!
Yes? Start contact.
Hello, Leo.
Hi Auntie.How are things? I’m calling early,
since you’re so hard to get a hold of during
the day. You absolutely must talk some sense into your cousin. He
wants to quit his job and join a rock group called “Schwermetall”!
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Sorry, gotta go, auntie! I’m in a rush! I promise I’ll talk to him.
nobody listens to me! You’re just like
your cousin…
Mister Roa, there’s two men here to see--
Maybe a new head of section has been named?
no, it must besomething else. Theyalready pulled that
one on me.
He got awayfrom us. He’s on
a Fly-Moth.
This is Jite. We’ve spotted him. Going to
intercept.Maybe they’ve found out
how I’m using the Archives for personal research?
Did Leo do something?
Shut up.
I’ll take the expresswayto get there faster.
He’s turning! Follow him!
Watch out! What are you--?
Man! The skywaysare getting so
dangerous nowadays!
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We’ve arrived too late, again!
it only tooksix minutes! I broke every traffic law…
Take the private elevator, Leo. The Director’s waiting
for you.
Okay, Kar.
Did he just say that? I can’t
believe it!
Just a moment! Security! Please introduce your
right hand.
Of course.
Very good,Mister Roa, you may go up. This security pigment will allow you to circulate
on that level.
I know that, but why the face, too, today?
Level 113.
The Director’s private elevator, this is more serious than I--
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Just a moment! Security!Please introduce your left hand.
What? Again!
Mister Roa.
At last, he made it!We should’ve sent out
a security squad. Roa’s in a great deal of danger!
no need to panic, inspector. Show him in!
With your permission, Mister Folderol.
Come in,Roa. I’m gladto see you
alive.
Alive? But, I-- You already know the Head
of Archives and the Head of Security, but not inspector Gonzalez, from
the Politron. Right?
Hello.
How are you?
Pleased to meet you.
Take a seat, Mister Roa. I’ll get right to the point: Philip Travers, your co-worker in the Archive Division, was found at his
post last night…murdered!
What? Philip! Dead? That’s impossible!
Hi, everybody. I…uh…
I can’t believe it!We had plans this Sunday for a game of… it can’t
be true! Who could have?
We’re still not sure.
Whoever it was, they reprogrammeda security robot in order to get in. Then they hacked into the computer controlling Archive’s central files.
Philip, dead!
But, that’s not all, Roa!
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I see.
What’s more, the computers of the five most important Planetary information
Centers were attacked at the same time and in much the same manner.
We believe that the computer itself could give us a lead.
To us, this indicatesa large-scale operation,
put in motion to destroy a piece of data that couldforeseeably hurt someone
in a high position.
As you know, we needthe first code sequence
to unlock it. I have the second one, but only you and Philip
had the first.
in STARR’s case,the computer’s internal
security system went into automatic lockdown.
nothing can get in or out.
no!
But--
You are the only one who can unlock it, so I advise you to start
immediately. Your life is at risk.
Yes, You can start right away, Roa. Here, use this
terminal.
But, I-I don’t remember the access code.
WHAT?
Er, I mean…I have a bad memory, so I wrote it down someplace
around the house.
Hurry! We might be too late!
What? Haven’t you met anyone from Planet XJ-Beta-76 before?
no, that’s not it!STARR’s security
pigments just left me a little colorblind…
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