BlackStar Mountain by T. C. Miller

Author:T. C. Miller [Miller, T. C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780997129052
Published: 2016-11-28T22:00:00+00:00

An hour later they left Gunter’s new office for a quick tour. Part of the building contained living quarters that could easily accommodate a hundred people. A well-lighted and spacious cafeteria served food prepared on-site.

They passed men and women dressed in workout clothes entering a well-equipped gym.

“Is also swimming pool, spa and steam room...We must, of course, have steam room,” Ivan remarked.

“Indeed, it helps purify the body and the soul.”

They stepped into an elevator for a trip to the underground portion of the complex.

“Is this elevator the only access to the facility?” Gunter’s voice was slurred, but hardly noticeable to Ivan, who had matched him drink for drink.

“Is usual access for most supplies...No need to carry down eight sets of stairs. Missile silos have heavy concrete doors we have made to work. Large items can be lowered down with crane.”

“I noticed three of them are open...”

“My...er...our men pump forty-years of rain water out from them...Is thankless task and dangerous...Two men perish before I impose new safety rules.”

“To protect the workers?”

“To motivate other workers to continue...Death sometimes slows them down.”

“I understand why that might be. Back to my original question...How many entry points are there to areas below ground?”

“Main entrance...Three missile silos and antenna silo. We also create entrance to operations dome...”

“Operations dome?”

“Is smaller concrete dome...Contains environmental service equipment...air handlers and filtration...water treatment and power generators. Is one hundred thirty-feet across at base and fifty-feet high in center with second-level balcony for controls. Administration dome has offices and living space. First level is one hundred feet in diameter. Second level is seventy feet in diameter and thirty feet high...Entire dome is seventy feet high.”

“And these areas are all connected by eight foot tubular steel tunnels like we’re in...Amazing engineering feat.”

They stepped into the elevator for a ride to the top.

Ivan sighed. “Was shame to breach technical dome...but necessary...Elevator can not hold big equipment. New opening makes for easy work and hidden way to move material in and out. I will show you...What do you see ahead?” Ivan said, with a wide grin as they walked out of the building.

“Grass and soil...What I would expect to see on the Colorado plain.”

“To be sure, but walk some more...and some more.”

Another thirty paces and they stood at the edge of a precipice twenty feet above a ravine. A road at the bottom snaked from the far edge of the fence that enclosed the thirty-five acre site and sloped to a loading dock below.

“Never would have guessed it was there...Fits seamlessly into the site.”

“Is how I design...Trucks pass through hidden gate and proceed undetected to loading dock. Cargo and men depart from facility undetected.”

“Sheer genius...My compliments...But, I didn’t notice it on diagrams of the site.”

“Should remain so...Is secret which may serve well if we need quick exit.”

“Hope that doesn’t happen. By the way, what is the activity below?”

“Clients from California...They are to stay a long time .”

“I assume they’re unloading cargo for storage in the technical dome?”

“Materiel, I am told must be underground...To be stored in silo service area.

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