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NO.35 Reunion Pavilion
>Incessant chatter fills the transport aircraft. Conversations from the ATC channel burrow into your ears through your personal terminal.
Mother Swan-6 to Babylonia Control. Now approaching route 3-3-4. New area up ahead. Request confirmation of route validity.
Babylonia Control to Mother Swan-6. Route 3-3-4 and airspace ahead are both clear. Drop cargo at point Papa-Sierra-14.
Copy. Drop cargo at point Papa-Sierra-14.
...
Almost. This airspace isn't our usual AO, so we had to double-confirm.
We're near KCC's backyard. Scuttlebutt is they got a few Thunderstorm emplacements back in the Golden Age up and running.
Don't worry, though. Babylonia pre-screened our flight path. It'll be alright.
We're above the target area. Starting descent.
Mother Swan-6 to Babylonia Control. Reached point Papa-Sierra-14. Following protocol 01 for vertical landing.
Babylonia Control to Mother Swan-6. Copy. Relaying channel to Forsaken Stronghold Zulu-Tango-8.
This is Zulu-Tango-8, independent Forsaken battle group. We'll guide you in.
Please proceed along the 3D-marked path and make your landing at...
Babylonia is rebuilding a... theater?
Yep. The Glazed Arch Theater. Basically takes up the entire coast.
In the old days, you couldn't even come close to the doorstep without a Swiss bank account. The best Thespioids, with M.I.N.D.s copied from the real deal, played all the classics here.
'Course. When the punishing happened, all them 'crats abandoned the place like it's the plague.
Now, all that's left around here are the servants.
The Forsaken soldier gestures for you to look, but you can already guess what he means.
Corrupted service mechanoids still walk the rows after all these years. Some are even carrying fruit platters and hot towels—now rotten and cold—with them.
The irony.
Ditto.
A stage without an audience... Let's draw the curtains.
