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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.  


<p style="text-indent: 20px; margin: 0; padding:0;"><div style="text-indent: 20px; margin: 0; padding:0;">The eighteen-wheeler operations battle-truck was flanked by a pair of [[COO]] picket-class gunships. They hurtled along a dirt track. It 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, framed by the observation towers that ringed it.


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.