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{{a|opcoboone|}}{{smallcaps|As a blood-red sun}} dipped to the rim of the world, they watched the procession thunder across the desert, a mile below. | {{a|opcoboone|}}{{smallcaps|As a blood-red sun}} dipped to the rim of the world, they watched the procession thunder across the desert, a mile below. An eighteen-wheeler Double-O battle-truck flanked by a pair of [[COO]] picket-class gunships hurtled along a dirt track. The track snaked away for ten flat miles through desiccated scrubland towards a low-lying, dusty settlement. | ||
<div style="text-indent: 20px; margin: 0; padding:0;">A curlicue of smoke, tainted pink in the dying sunset, rose above the Settlement. Seven gaunt observation towers ringed the citadel at equidistant points around its perimeter. | |||
A curlicue of smoke, tainted pink in the dying sunset, rose above the Settlement | |||
The watchers stood on an arête, 4,000 metres above the plain. The tallest of them was shrouded in a billowing canopy. The outriders either side of him straddled dirt bikes. | The watchers stood on an arête, 4,000 metres above the plain. The tallest of them was shrouded in a billowing canopy. The outriders either side of him straddled dirt bikes. |