[ApplegateRanch]

It's a UFO landing pedestal!

Shucks, Kieth Laumer taught me that, back in '62 or '63.

I was sitting in the shade of a Bolo Mark IV, while it's main batteries cooled down & the infinite repeaters provided automatic air cover for the landing of CDT Peacekeepers and a delegation led by Third Assistant Consul Reteif. With nothing better to do, I pulled out my battered copy of A Trace of Memory, settled down with a bottle of vintage Pepsi, and began reading...

[SunkenCiv]

;') Twenty years ago there was a BBS around here called "The CDT", and the handle of its operator was "Retief".

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