Imperial corpse

The Imperial corpse is a long-dead body of an Imperial soldier found floating in space near the Blacktron desert world. Spaceman of Futuron retrieves the corpse and discovers an old transcoder inside its suit; Bennie the Robot in turn discovers an access code to Regis Major hidden inside the device.

The body is stowed in the cryopod of Clarke's ship before Spaceman deals with the Blacktrons. When Spaceman and his friends return to New Jerusalem, Boston Texas takes the corpse and promises to dispose of it properly.