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- Suddenly, the entire crew was all business. Even Veronica checked to make sure the safety on her weapon was off. Eliza smiled at that. Her companion was beautiful, but she still knew her business.
- Outside, a substantial convoy of heavily armed and armored hover-vehicles and military jeeps pulled up. Eliza had already put the base's anti-aircraft batteries on alert, and every available man and woman on the ground had been scrambled. A transport craft pulled up and set down, and about twenty armed men got out of the cargo area in the back. Then two additional men got out, carrying a wooden crate.
- "Put that over on the pedestal," she said to the men. Once they had done as she commanded, she ordered all personnel not normally stationed at the base out of the hangar. She only wanted people around she were sure weren't Purity spies. "I guess we'd better get that thing open. Captain, would you do the honors?"