The High Ground
“Overhead a clear dome arched against the stars and the blazing nebula. It seemed a fragile thing to separate them from the cold and vacuum of space.
Beneath it a running track circled a grass-filled soccer field. Directly across from the door through which they had entered was a shooting range, and at one end of the huge oval room were free weights and machines. At the other end mats were laid out. Tracy expected those were not for yoga classes, and in fact a barrel-chested man dressed in a sta...r command blue martial arts gi stood waiting. He bounced on the balls of his bare feet, hands clasped behind his back. The light from the nebula poured down through the clear dome and glinted on the man’s shaved head.
Arrayed all around the walls of the training center were suits of armor. The earliest honored Earth’s history. Shining plate worn by the knights of the middle ages, exquisite lacquered bamboo armor from China and Japan, ceramic and Kevlar combat armor from the late twentieth and twenty-first century.MoreLess
Beneath it a running track circled a grass-filled soccer field. Directly across from the door through which they had entered was a shooting range, and at one end of the huge oval room were free weights and machines. At the other end mats were laid out. Tracy expected those were not for yoga classes, and in fact a barrel-chested man dressed in a sta...r command blue martial arts gi stood waiting. He bounced on the balls of his bare feet, hands clasped behind his back. The light from the nebula poured down through the clear dome and glinted on the man’s shaved head.
Arrayed all around the walls of the training center were suits of armor. The earliest honored Earth’s history. Shining plate worn by the knights of the middle ages, exquisite lacquered bamboo armor from China and Japan, ceramic and Kevlar combat armor from the late twentieth and twenty-first century.MoreLess
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