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this massive complex.
     
    **
     
    Arriving at floor two, Lee left the turbo lift and stepped onto a magnetic conveyor system used to traverse the huge complex of corridors. All you had to do was enter your choice of destination, the conveyor system would do the rest. Not bad, he thought. A six-foot-wide by fifteen-foot-long slab of alloy, hovering two inches above the shining metallic floor of the corridor. You had a central hand rail and the control panel with choices of destination. Pick one and away you go.
     
    The journey took Lee about seven minutes. When he entered the control room, Terry looked taken aback.
     
    ‘I hadn’t expected to see you here today, Lee,’ he said. ‘I thought you had a meeting with some Android?’
     
    Terry smiled, and Lee thought defiantly: Konoco’s idea of a joke at my expense.
     
    ‘Been there, seen it and got the tee shirt.’ he said jokingly.
     
    Terry enquired a little more seriously:
     
    ‘How did it go?’
     
    ‘Really well, learnt a lot, and brought Thourus right up to speed with the plans.’ Lee spoke with a slight sense of self-satisfaction.
     
    ‘You hungry, Lee? I’m just going to get something to eat,’ Terry asked.
     
    ‘Excellent!’ exclaimed Lee.
     
    He was starving. It had been a long day.
     
    **
     
    Lee was up early next day. He had checked in with Jumouk, and stayed the night at Earth Central.
     
    After a hearty breakfast, Terry had taken him back to the surface. They were both surveying the area around Earth Central’s entrance. Terry crossed the road to the houses there, then, carrying on to the back garden of one, suddenly disappeared in a field at the bottom of the garden, Lee followed in his footsteps and likewise disappeared. They had just slipped through the magnetic shroud covering the fifty assault craft sent to Earth Central yesterday. It was an extremely impressive sight, and Lee was impressed by the way the mag shroud was working.
     
    He wandered around the parked craft. They were stacked as if in a multi-story car park, but without the concrete. Sitting there defiantly suspended by their own power, truly a sight to be seen, thought Lee.
     
    The new Dropas assault ships had all been built incorporating the same type of energy-absorbing materials as the defence pods. It was hoped that this would give them a significant advantage over the Annunaki craft.
     
    Terry winked at Lee.
     
    ‘Fancy a test drive?’
     
    Lee was up for it and they hopped into a two-man assault craft. Terry gestured to Lee, and Lee powered up the Dropas craft. Silently it slipped out of the parked formation and slid through the mag shield.
     
    Lee glanced across to Terry for assurance that everything was OK. Terry nodded.
     
    The assault vessel tore upwards vertically at stupendous speed, levelled off at 30,000 feet and proceeded to circumvent the globe.
     
    Lee and Terry were like kids on their first bikes, both smiling ear to ear, doing moves a jet fighter pilot couldn’t even imagine, swapping the controls between them and trying to outdo each other. Still, all good things had to come to an end and they headed back to drop Lee at his shuttle.
     
    With a smile and the word ‘superb’ somewhere in the conversation, Lee thanked Terry and returned to his shuttle. Meanwhile Terry returned the assault craft to its makeshift parking place within the safety of the mag shield.
     
    **
     
    Back on board the shuttle Lee was just leaving Earth’s atmosphere, feeling quite relaxed. Yesterday had been a really good day and had lifted his spirits. He thought to himself: I hope today’s as good. It was probably more to do with the flying than anything else. Lee just loved to fly, and his time with Terry this morning had been a tonic.
     
    The proximity detector on board the shuttle craft could be set on a scale of five feet, to one million miles, roughly four times the distance to the moon, not as much as it sounds in the terms of deep space. Mars our closest