Admiralty Center

The Rebel Worlds, CHAPTER TWO, describes Admiralty Center which we have discussed before:

a metropolis in its own right;

towering above the Rockies;

many-tinted walls;

fluoro-panels permanently necessary on the lower levels;

looping, tangled, elevated ways;

pinnacles among clouds and sunlight;

swarming, glittering, electronically controlled air traffic;

tunnels and chambers beneath the foundations;

slideways;

beehive-like humming;

underground growling.

Flandry's aircab lands on the fiftieth-level parking flange of Intelligence headquarters where a marine guard admits him to the building which has internal slideways and upbound negagrav fields. Flandry moves through crowds of different ranks and species and ascends to the ninety-seventh level and Admiral Kheraskov's office where the entire rear wall shows an animation of Jupiter seen from an approaching ship. In CHAPTER SIXTEEN, the animation is of Saturn.