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1. Our leading man in this book is a gentleman by the name of Neal 'Storm' Cloud. As the story opens he's just suffered a major tragedy. What had happened?
2. What was the family name for the Clouds' car?
3. Why did Cloud reckon he could blow out an atomic vortex?
4. Cloud's first attempt to blow out a vortex went well (obviously, I hope!) but he hadn't taken something into account. What was it?
5. Was Surgeon-General Lacy particularly concerned about Cloud's condition?
6. After Cloud's successful elimination of the atomic vortex, he became the most popular man in the galaxy, bar no-one. What happened to the Chickladorian delegation?
7. What was being grown in Cave 217 of Tellurian Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s research plant on Deka?
8. Why did Cloud go to Deka?
9. What started Cloud considering the likelihood of chance playing a part in the events that had happened to him?
10. After Cloud had dealt with Deka, he headed off to his next destination but he doesn't actually get to blow out a vortex on a planet hewing to Civilisation in his next encounter.
Where is this vortex?
11. What problem was stopping Cloud from just blasting the vortex?
12. Who was Cloud's pilot in this adventure?
13. Right, we're off to Tominga eventually - just a quick stop over Nixson II to eliminate the vortexes there.
Who was producing the atomic vortexes that were terrorising Tominga?
14. Where did Cloud and the Patrol finally corner the person responsible for creating some of the atomic vortexes?
15. Once Cloud had the idea that some vortexes were being produced artificially, it was soon fairly apparent that none of the vortexes were natural but had been produced by a new race.
Who were they?
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