“Its dry, hot atmosphere was breathable but unpleasant, each breath tasting of invisible razor blades. The human Planetary Headquarters was a series of cold temporary-looking buildings sealed under a low dome, as if it were precariously situated on an airless moon. Half a planet away was the Musth Center, two four-story buildings with inverted-C roofs. Great jagged pits, inverted ziggurats, dotted the landscape, and machinery, some robot, some remote-controlled, a very little hands-on-operated, ...churned around the diggings. The two fly-on-fly-off transports that’d brought the Strike Force’s Griersons and two Zhukovs hovered a dozen meters above the ground, side ramps gaping, and a stream of combat vehicles floated out, each disgorging its antenna array as it did. Garvin and Kang were out of their stations, hanging over Ben Dill’s seat, looking through the curving windscreen at the desolation. “I know all this digging pays the rent,” Kang said. “But does it have to be so ugly?”MoreLessRead More Read Less
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