Conrad gives David a list of the twelve known types of mutants and notes that the clandestine war is being waged by mutants sabotaging Terran infrastructure.ĭavid returns to the home that he shares with his companion, Leina, and shortly a team of phony police officers arrives. As true telepaths, Conrad and David speak mind to mind. Conrad, the director of the Terran Security Bureau. After leaving the Council, David goes to see Mr. The Council's leader, Oswald Heraty, tells him that Humanity is on the verge of interstellar flight and that there have been hints of intelligent life "out there": Heraty wants Humanity to face any potential dangers as a unified society, so he doesn't want Mars and Venus gaining independence. This is not the instantaneous transport of objects that we normally associate with the word teleport.Ĭalled before the World Council, Space Captain David Raven is told that he must stop a clandestine war being waged against Terra by people seeking independence for Mars and Venus. Teleports (D+): Can levitate objects but not themselves (teleport means far-carry). Able to communicate with insects, they can also command them, with deadly results. Insectivocals (D+): Using high-pitched chirrups, they talk to insects, especially the toxic breeds found on Venus.
Mini-engineers (D+): With long, slender fingers and eyes so deformed that they can only see objects within four inches of their faces, they can build exquisitely tiny mechanisms, such as a cruise missile the size of a cigarette. They can also create ultrasound and use it for bat-like sonar. Supersonics (I): With floppy ears, they can hear ultrasound, even at a considerable distance from its source. Hypnos (D+): With wide eyes that seem to glow, a hypno can compel anyone to believe or to do exactly what he commands. Malleables (D): Have faces backed by cartilage, rather than bone, and can thus change their appearance to resemble anybody. Chameleons (I): Not described, but an incident in the book implies that they can simply blend into any background. Pyrotics (D+): Can cause heat to appear at a distance and simply burn someone to death with a thought.
Levitators (D): Called floaters, they can simply defy gravity. True Telepaths (D+): Can read minds and, unlike sub-telepaths, can close their minds to any attempts to read them. He also lists their relative danger, I for innocuous, D for dangerous, and D+ for extremely dangerous. At the end of Chapter One the head of the Terran Security Bureau gives David Raven a list of twelve known types of mutants based on the super-normal ability each possesses.
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