Target: Cambridge

[Nightfall]

Near Planet Cambridge, Bretonia Space...

'Night Plateau, this is LSF A1-10, I have an appointment at your place, requesting permission to land!' said the pilot of the LSF-tagged Talon fighter.

A short pause and a reply came. 'SiN|Tech - Night Plateau to LSF A1-10, you have clearance to land on Pad 2!'

The pilot smiled to himself 'I never thought I would be sneaking into Cambridge because a Cardamine-induced vision told me to'. Nightfall was glad his IFF transponder was broadcasting LSF colors, the lot of SF ships were ignoring him. He was in no mood to take them all on in a lone fighter anyway, he was there because of more important business.

Not long ago, a pill of green color was delivered to him on the Sanctum. Not a new and uncommon thing to him. He knew it was a message for him and readable only to him personally - it was tailored to his DNA only and a certain amount of Cardamine in his blood. A message from the SiN|Tech Corporation. The extensive analysis to see if it's authentic and safe to 'read' it proved it to be such. Not that he didn't trust the SiN|Tech, doubtful fact that they'd bite a hand that feeds them, after all he was a rather important figure in the Outcast society and precautions had to be taken. He swalloved the pill, gave it some of the Porto he was almost constantly drinking to help it slide down and upped the setting on his cardamine mask, increasing the dosage. Nightfall felt the vision kicking in on the reality, he sat in the comfortable chair.

'Dear Mr. Fokke...' the gray haired vision in a white medic uniform started it's monologue 'my name is dr. Gray. It is my pleasure to announce you that your order of...' it continued and mixed the sound with images in his mind. Images of various 'special items' he ordered being loaded into containers, the containers being loaded into freighters ready to transport at the given command. It all looked like a busy army of ants gathering resources somewhere deep within the Night Plateau Facility compound.

'However', continued dr. Gray 'your presence is required. I assure you, it will make a lot more sense when you come here and we talk in person.', his mind got overwhwlmed by an image of a woman in a regeneration tank...

* Thanx *RainfeatherPearl for doing Jyipxe - The Regeneration *

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If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God? - from 'Nightfall' by I. Asimov
The Outcasts consider Siniestre Nube a sacred place for several reasons. Early explorers discovered a jumphole within the depths of the cloud that leads to a strange world of ringed stars and strange craft. All ships in the burrial ground are placed facing that hole to honor the Alien Spirits. - An Outcast rumor