Oblivion
Oblivion
“Cicoi stood at the entrance, his upper tentacles rising in astonishment as they had every time he had entered this chamber.
The command positions, circles built onto the walls and extended so that the officers seem to float by ranks, had all been repaired. The Commander’s circle was in the middle on the only real floor. Before it were half a dozen round balls, all of which represented a different information feed about the third planet.
A cone-shaped command center encircled the Commander’s position, with ten spots built into the board to rest upper tentacles during long battles. The entire design, using perfect shapes throughout, would relax a crew that had had a long space voyage or suffered a long tense battle.
Cicoi didn’t want to think about the battles that had been waged from here. He knew enough of his people’s history to know that those battles had been waged against either the North or the Center.
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