Line 31 / Part 1

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Back in the conference room the scene had changed entirely. Gone was the big round table with the twenty-two chairs, and the room seemed to have shrunk to a significantly smaller size without losing any of its spacious feel. The center of the room was now occupied by a workstation as futuristic looking as the former décor had looked ancient. The unit consisted of a bulky, three-foot high platform, octagonal in shape, and appeared to be made of the same funny looking iridescent metal as the gigantic honeycomb structure that covered the conference room's wall. Only that said honeycomb structure had somehow reshaped itself into eight arches, thereby transforming the whole outline of the room from circle to octagon!

The top surface of the shimmering platform was a touch screen with eight circles virtually dividing the octagonal unit into eight consoles; a twenty-two foot wide multifaceted crystal ball indicated the center of the workstation. Obviously gravity was of as little consequence in these surroundings as was time, because this enormous crystal ball floated about ten feet above the glassy top of the station, slowly turning on its axis. As it slightly shifted its angle with each rotation, sprays of multicolored light created numerous geometrical shapes in the circles on the octagonal screen below.

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