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Alliance Command Headquarters
Alliance Station
Orbiting Earth’s moon
4146.8.3 Galactic
Nick stood beside Sub-Protector Lal, waiting for Alliance Council Chairman Edgar Whizzar to appear from the private lift behind his expansive plasti-steel desk. To their left was a wall of floor to ceiling windows through which the gray surface of Earth’s moon slowly moved under them. The ashen surface was dotted with nests of light as they passed over the domed cities that dotted the landscape of the dead moon.
Al-Mok Talon, Head of Alliance Security Services, sat silently in a low-back chair, his legs crossed, his brilliant green eyes watchful. On the right side of his hip hung a faux-leather holster. Nick saw the large butt of a blaster pistol. He didn’t recognize the design.
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