Blockade: Lepso

THOMAS CARDIF declared, "I want the Flaming Sword back, priest! With the help of Baalol, I want to wield it so mightily against the Solar Imperium that it will be turned into nothing but raving madmen!"Having been released from his synthetic personality, Cardif’s real self was revealing the heritage of his genius father. He had almost been equal to Rhodan in terms of planning and strategy. More than once he had thrown the Solar Imperium into its gravest crisis. Almost always his shrewd manipulations had served to block Rhodan’s countermeasures.  Now, with frantic Arkonidean passion, he was determined to wreck the worlds of his father’s domain, clean across the solar system from molten Mercury past the great gas planets clear out to the frozen wastes of the transPlutonian planet.  The machinery for Rhodan’s destruction was–  THE LEPSO BLOCKADE!