In Garth

"Hunters of the Sky Cave," X.

Garth is a human city on a terrestroid planet so most of it should be recognizable to us.

The city has:

alleys;

streets;

pavements;

high-peaked roofs;

storm drains;

half-timbered houses with shutters;

a transmitter tower for a robotic weather-monitor station;

stretches of open paving;

gardens;

a hurricane cellar in every house;

a tunnel dug between houses by the resistance;

public thoroughfares;

pedestrians;

groundcars;

Ardazhiro on foot or unicycle;

aurora in the night sky;

harp trees and a metal space-rocket-shaped fountain in Explorers' Plaza;

a quarter million human population;

a garrison of a few hundred Ardazhiro with heavy weapons, robotanks and repeating cannon.

Tasks of the Garrison

To staff nearby observation stations and anti-spacecraft defences.

To collect firearms.

To direct factory production for the Ardazhiro army.

To detect and suppress resistance.

Towns, like Marsburg, where uprisings succeed are missiled.