Chapter 2- Preparations
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arrived at the location Allen had entered, under the cover of darkness. The secret facility was outside of Austin, inside a heavily radioactive crater. The landscape below showed a bomb ravaged set of buildings surrounded by high barbed wire fences and abandoned guard towers. The rusted machine gun emplacements were still on top of the towers. Nobody dared enter the hot zone created by the nuclear blast.
"Are you sure it's safe to land here, Brad questioned as they neared the low concrete building that was partially covered by landslides from the nuclear blast. Brad didn't know that Allen had initiated the blast himself over the fortified, bomb proofed basement of the old Stellardyne headquarters. The low yield tactical nuke had created the crater and the surrounding damage, but hadn't touched the bunker. This blast had given Allen a perfect cover for the research and prototype production center housed there.
Before the latest war on Earth, A number of countries, experiencing more significant famines, had tried to take land and resources of the better fed countries by force. The poor countries, mostly communist regimes, had failed to take the land by conventional weapons, so they relied on small tactical nukes to speed their advance. They knew that thermonuclear weapons would trigger mutually assured destruction and nobody was willing to do that.
These attacks were met in kind, of course, and with fission bombs, until one side ran out of nukes. The U.S and European bloc nations, along with United Russia had many more weapons than either the Chinese, Vietnamese, North Korean or the other small Communist countries could muster and those countries were not successful.
"It's perfectly safe," Allen assured him. It cost billions to clean up the radiation. The radiation levels you're reading are artificially produced. This is my home and research facility here on Earth. Nobody but trusted Stellardyne employees ever come near here. We can live here in peace, in a Utopian environment, safe from another incident like the one we had before," Allen confided in him.
Brad didn't know what had transpired before the war, but assumed that it had motivated the expensive ruse that the bombed out radioactive crater below them presented. There were plenty of bombed out sites throughout the world that had been left untouched. The expense of the cleanup was too much for any nation to afford, including the Republic of Texas.
As the ship lowered over the secret facility, the rooftop, shielded by taller buildings around it, snapped open, revealing a state-of-the-art landing facility below. As soon as the starship cleared the top of the building, the roof rapidly reclosed. Allen told Brad to wait a moment until shielding below the gamma ray generators had completely closed inside the hanger. As soon as the shielding was in place, a green light appeared over the door of the main facility. A group of people, dressed in medical gear burst from the building and rushed toward the starship. Allen was the first to be hustled off the ship, complaining loudly that he was fine.
"Aunt Gia!" Brad shouted to one of the nurses swarming around Allen Feldon as they floated him toward the opening door, past the rest of the starship's crew. Gia, not noticing Brad's call, continued to move with the other medical team members, carefully monitoring her boyfriend's condition. Ana and Gabby were next to get a ride into the facility on their own gurneys. A young male medic stopped to talk with Rob and Brad, checking on their general welfare. When neither man complained of any ill effects, the medic left them behind in the hangar, after telling them to come inside and make themselves at home. Rob and Brad walked to the entrance of the bunker and they all entered Allens home away from home on Earth.
They were met by a middle-aged couple who were completely nude. Rob shrugged and withdrew his flimsy. "When in Rome," He mumbled, repeating Brad's reasoning for Brad cleaning up Gabby's pussy after he'd fucked her the first night of the journey. The man introduced himself as Justin, and introduced them to his wife, Judy. The couple greeted Rob and Brad in the Utopian way, thanking them for rescuing the boss and his family. Justin shook the men's forearms, allowing them to touch each other's wrist sensors and getting important information transferred between the men's PICs.
Brad and Rob immediately knew that Justin was Allen's right hand man, the CEO of Stellardyne, and his wife, Judy was the CFO. Justin explained that this was the nerve center of Stellardyne as well as repair and storage facilities for Allen's personal fleet of stardrive and anti-gravity equipped yachts. Justin, the CEO and Judy, the CFO lived at this facility full time, overseeing the VPs who carried out the day to day operations of the Stellardyne corporation at other locations.
Gia, Justin and Judy lived here with a small household staff. Other top executives and a dedicated team of the finest scientists and engineers on the planet who were not Utopians, lived in nearby Austin. Several high-ranking Utopian employees lived here at Allen's home on Earth. The compound had become a mini Utopian colony here in the middle of Austin. This particular facility was where most of Stellardyne's original technology had been developed, but recently, the new Research and Development team had been relocated to Eden, Allen's permanent home.
Utopian scientists loved the solitude and natural beauty of Eden. The Utopian community was much larger there and the Utopian scientists and engineers preferred working there, rather than this underground environment. Judy led them all to a well-appointed lounge.
"How do you know Gia?" Judy asked as they visited they sat together on the large curving sofa.
"Gia's my twin sister," Rob replied.
Judy raised an eyebrow. "So you're the brother that Gia often talked about. "Gia is Allen's mistress and personal nurse,'' Judy informed them.
Mistress!" Brad exclaimed. He couldn't believe that his beloved and saintly Aunt was somebody's fuck toy.
"More of a fiance really," Judy quickly ammended her terminology. Allen's asked her to marry him hundreds of times, but she always says no. They do have a permanent committed relationship though. She doesn't want to inherit all the responsibilities of running a company as big as Stellardyne. Justin and I keep reassuring her that we would oversee the business, but she's content to just live with Allen. She loves and spends most her time with him on Eden. When he comes to Earth, Gia comes with him and visits her family in Columbia," Judy explained.
"We haven't seen her in over three years. We met in Columbia where my wife's family lives," Rob said. "The last time we saw her, she told us that she had an exciting new job working for Stellardyne on a distant outpost. Normally, she would always tell us where she was working so that I could visit, but this last time when I asked where, she told me that the facility was classified and that she couldn't say any more about it," Rob told Judy.
