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we help you?”
    Nova leant her
elbows on the counter and measured the two before her. Deciding
they were no threat, she held out her arm.
    “ I’m here for security detail,” she said.
    “ Well, isn’t that just wonderful?” one woman said. She was
dressed from head to toe in a pink so bright it made Nova’s eyes
water.
    Nova said
nothing and continued to hold out her arm. The woman behind the
counter pulled out a scanner very much like Bruce’s and held it
over Nova’s arm. With a quick nod the woman pressed a green button
on the side of the scanner. There was a whirring noise and a moment
later a simple plastic card slid out of the bottom of the
device.
    The woman
pulled it out and looked from the card to Nova and back again.
“That all seems to be in order.”
    “ You use hard-cards?” Nova asked with her eyebrows raised, she
hadn’t seen one in years.
    “ Oh, yes. President Geron likes to remind people where we’ve
come from.” The woman’s smile hadn’t moved throughout the whole
conversation.
    “ Cool,” Nova said, although she didn’t really mean
it.
    “ Now you just need one of these. Make sure that’s pinned where
people can see it at all times or you may just find yourself shot,”
said the woman, smiling.
    Nova frowned
but took hold of the plastic card and the simple clipping device.
Nova’s photograph took up one side of the card, next to large
letters that read ‘Security’.
    “ The event starts tomorrow, after sundown, but you may want to
admire the dome first,” the woman finished with a smile so wide and
so white that Nova had to look away.
    Nova did as
the woman had suggested. She walked down corridor after corridor
and checked each unlocked door. The dome was filled with rooms, and
seemed impossibly large on the inside. It would easily be able to
hold ten thousand people, more than enough to start Drigoon off on
its way to a fully-fledged planet.
    Amongst the
sleeping quarters sat a tasteful viewing platform with glass
windows that looked out over Drigoon. Set into one side was a thick
metal door that was covered in warning signs in a myriad of
languages: “Do not open door without clearance and safety
gear”.
    Nova turned
from the door to the green planet spread out before her. The sign’s
intention became immediately clear. Directly outside the glass
began the jungles of Drigoon, but these trees weren’t all harmless.
As Nova watched, she saw green trunks moving across the ground.
    Her eyes
narrowed as she watched them, but it wasn’t an illusion. These
plants crept across the planet’s surface on their roots; moving
from one spot to another to find water or sunlight. The excess
carbon dioxide had given these plants a level of intelligence that
Nova had never seen in plant life before. A part of her wondered
what would happen to them when the terraforming project started to
convert the atmosphere.
    One particular
plant sidled right up to the glass and seemed to look through at
Nova, although of course that would be impossible; the thing had no
eyes. Still, it sent a tingle down her spine which was in no way
helped when the thing opened its leaves to reveal a gaping hole
surrounded by sticky teeth.
    Nova was sure
the display couldn’t get any stranger when the creature leant back
and whipped forward, spitting a globule of green mucous from its
mouth onto the glass. The blob dripped down the glass as the plant
walked away, bored.
    Nova strolled
up to the glass and laid a hand on one side. The surface was warm
from the green bile sliding down the other side. When the stuff hit
the earth at the bottom of the glass it hissed and smoked as it
burned a hole into the grass.
    She shook her
head at the sight. Who would choose to live in a place like
this?
    Only parts of
the dome were open, and as well as the viewing platform and many
sleeping quarters, Nova came across a gym, five restaurants and
common rooms, and finally a very large bar. She walked inside and
let her eyes run