Re: Garda Vilis/Vilis (0308) Date: 243-1107 10:00
As promised by Devin Schaller, when he had given Tylen the mission, the mountainous scenery grows more spectacular as they travel further. Towering ice-capped peaks glimpsed through the cloud cover, glittering in the dim light from Garda Vilis' M class primary.
Finally Conrad points out a strobing beacon ahead of them, through the curtains of drizzling rain. It flashes in alternating red and white, and seems to be somewhat higher than ground level.
Conrad contacts the station, to request landing clearance, and receives it.
Closer inspection shows that the beacon is on top of a twenty metre mast, which stands in a compound with three small buildings, each surmounted by several antennae and sensor domes. More sensor equipment is affixed to the mast, at various heights. There is an open area, between the buildings, surfaced with ferrocrete, and easily large enough for the air-raft to land on.
The whole cluster of structures is surrounded by a two metre fence, which carries several notices bearing the age-old lightning bolt symbol which indicates that it is electrified.
As the air-raft moves closer, patterns of coloured lights start blinking on the landing pad below.
The vehicle touches down, and two figures step out of one of the buildings. One stays near the door, but the other moves closer, stopping at the edge of the pad. When Profit Margin's crew begins to disembark, he steps forward, smiling, "Welcome to Observatory Station 4. I'm Jason Delacroix, Duty Administrator here."