Somewhere, somehow, the first moves have been made-the pattern is beginning to emerge. Someone-or something-is on the way to supreme power over all the planets held by Man.

And the Inter-stellar Corps is helpless to meet the threat-no normal man can hope to penetrate the conspiracy.

But-the Corps has a man who isn't normal, a man with a very strange weapon...his mind!

Somewhere, somehow, the first moves have been made-the pattern is beginning to emerge. Someone-or something-is on the way to supreme power over all the planets held by Man.

And the Inter-stellar Corps is helpless to meet the threat-no normal man can hope to penetrate the conspiracy.

But-the Corps has a man who isn't normal, a man with a very strange weapon...his mind!

The crew's strange encounter leaves them baffled and leads them to a view an epic space battle. But strange as that is, it's nowhere near as mysterious as finding a planet covered in radioactive fuel ore -- and populated with humanoid robots who have been expecting their arrival and greet them as returning masters. . .

On the outbound journey, automatic sensors drop their ship -- the Perseus -- into normal space for an encounter with a mysterious skeletal object. The encounter leaves them baffled, and leads them to a view an epic space battle. But strange as that is, it's nowhere near as mysterious as finding a planet covered in radioactive fuel ore -- and populated with humanoid robots who have been expecting their arrival and greet them as returning masters. . .