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the Settlement is the elven home on earth. The settlement is an offshore centre.
the Settlement is the elven home on earth. The settlement is an offshore centre.
==[[NAV Trigger Point: An Opco Boone Adventure|NAV Trigger Point]]==
==[[NAV Trigger Point: An Opco Boone Adventure|NAV Trigger Point]]==
===The Secret [[Calculation Agent]]===
:“G... g... guys?” stuttered [[Edd Sweeney|Edd]]. “I th ... th ... think we better get outta here.”
:[[Roly Punchface|Roly]] snorted. “What’s ''wrong'' Eddy-boy? Scared like a — ” The tubster yawped and clucked and duck-walked around Cadet Sweeney, a fierce, brittle enjoyment squalling in his pink little eyes.
:“I’m not yeller!” Edd squeaked.
:“Are too! —” Roly’s little apple cheeks flushed with brimming petulance.
:“Cut it out Roly,” barked [[A.J. Paul|AJ]]. Don’t pay him no mind, [[Edd Sweeney|Sweeney]]. You carry on.”
:“Lads! ''Quiet''!” hissed Squadron Leader [[Opco Boone]]. “I have to finish this determination dispute trigger. I need bit of quiet. It’s — fiddly ... multi-lat ... ” Boone jabbed his screwdriver into the mechanism, and spluttered as a shower of rust sprinkled his face.
:“Don’t forget the double counting, Opco,” said [[Georgia Apathy|George]].
:Boone wiped his face and adjusted his goggles. “I got it, G. Just a little further —”
:The Eagle Squad leader reached into ancient contraption again, but as he did so, deep in the bowels of the [[ETS]] there was a deep, subsonic moan, as if a God, or a monster, was finally stirring from the slumber of aeons.
:''What the fuck was that?''
:Nearby, a vigorous flutter, an explosion of limbs, like a scrambling bird escaping from its predator’s clutch.
:“Roly! ''Roly''! Come back! Where are you going?”
:But the young [[squadsman]] had gone. A righteous sneer curled [[A.J. Paul|A.J.]]’s lip.
:Boone stood up. “C’mon gang, this is a dead end. No-one will read this, or understand it, much less ever use it. We better find [[Roly]]. Let’s get out of here.”
===The boobytrap===
===The boobytrap===
Boone snaps out of his reverie as the whizzkid excitedly tells him there is a scramble briefing. A.J. slapped his hands and rubbed them together with glee, his eyes fiercely aglow. “This is it, Boone! This is it! I’m ''finally'' going to see action!”
Boone snaps out of his reverie as the whizzkid excitedly tells him there is a scramble briefing. A.J. slapped his hands and rubbed them together with glee, his eyes fiercely aglow. “This is it, Boone! This is it! I’m ''finally'' going to see action!”