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three rows of consoles with computers lining
they get it you won't be able to see into the lake bed from the floor
of the room, facing forward. On the front wall a
anywhere in the public domain. And you sure as hell can't twenty-foot-wide
by ten-high screen dominated the room.
overfly this place. It was capable
of displaying virtually any information that
"Earlier this year they seized a bunch of the land over was desired,
from maps of the world to satellite imagery.
that way Franklin pointed to the north from the Bu- The Cube
operations chief, Major Quinn, looked over
reau of Land Management, which had control of it. I used his man's shoulder.
Quinn was of medium height and build.
to watch from there occasionally." He had thinning
blond hair and wore large tortoiseshell
Franklin gave Simmons a hand as they made it over the glasses to
accommodate the split lenses for both distance
lip of the cut onto the side of the ridge proper. "They and close up.
He ran his tongue nervously over his lips,
wanted it all, but the law says that over a certain acreage, then glanced
at the back of the room at a figure sitting at
there have to be hearings, so the Air Force seized up to the main control
console.
their limit the last couple of years and they'll probably do it Quinn was
perturbed to have intruders nosing around
again this year, until they get all they want, piece by piece." tonight. There
was too much planned, and most impor-
Simmons would have liked to ask a few more questions tantly, General
Gullick, the project commander, was here,
but he was too winded to do anything but grunt. and the general
made everyone nervous. The general's seat
"We have another eight hundred feet of altitude to was on a raised
dais that could oversee all that went on
make," Franklin said. below. Directly
behind it a door led to a corridor, off of
which branched
a conference room, Gullick's office and
sleeping quarters,
rest rooms, and a small galley. The
THE CUBE, AREA 51 freight elevator
opened on the right side of the main gal-
T-143 HOURS, 37 MINUTES lery. There
was the quiet hum of machinery in the room
along with the
slight hiss of filtered air being pushed into
The underground room measured eighty by a hundred fee the room by
large fans in the hangar above.
and could only be reached from the massive hangars cu "What happened
to the sensors?" Quinn asked as he
into the side of Groom Mountain above via a large freigh checked his