“The space has always been a challenge, and we have always risen to it”. Mr. Taret said as he walked across the meeting room. It was a meeting full of senior engineers of SpaceDot. SpaceDot had been a leading maker of spacecrafts for 2 decades now. It manufactured spacecrafts as well as other equipment. Mr. Taret walked back and looked at the people in the meeting.
“Do we need to revisit the design for SpaceRace”? One person in the meeting, Gare, an engineer asked. Mr. Taret looked at him and said nothing, at first. He was quiet. A few people looked at each other. A moment passed by and then Mr. Taret answered, “You can do so, if you wish to”. Then, he kept quiet, and then, he moved on. The meeting was going to take some time. The people in the meeting waited. Mr. Taret walked back and forth.
“We are here to renew our vision for the next decade. The next decade is a challenge for the field of technology. And, SpaceDot must rise to it. We are not a company that lags, we are not a company that comes second. We are the leaders of the industry and I want everyone to keep that in mind and work accordingly”. Taret delivered a small speech and then waited. Then, he looked at the room, a little proud of himself, he waited, looked ahead, no one said anything. A few people wore a look of some kind of hope. A few wore a look of mild hopelessness, they were careful not to show it much. They knew this far too well. “This is yet another, one of those, I speak, you listen kind of meeting. This is going to be a pep talk, but, the difference is that, Mr. Taret is going to talk and we are going to pep him up. He is the CEO, it is the usual deal”. Those few who were with hopelessness had earlier had this conversation by the water cooler, among the two of them, the others from the group were away from them. The people were quiet in the meeting room.
Present Day
Sera and Teya were standing in front of the huge gate that belonged to the building and the warehouse of the SpaceDot corporation. The corporation was not there anymore. The gate and the building wore a deserted and dirty look. There was no one around. Sera looked around, to make sure they were alone. Teya looked at Sera. Then, Sera moved forward and put down her backpack, from the backpack, she removed a big cutter, it was big enough to cut across steel half an inch thick. The handles of the cutter were each one and a half foot long. She motioned Teya to step back, Teya did so. In a second, Sera had the cutter on the lock of the gate, and in another second, Sera brought together the handles, the lock gave in, with a loud snapping sound and fell down, on the ground. Sera looked back, at Teya, Teya looked at Sera. Sera put the cutter back in the backpack and put the backpack back on her back. With the gun in her hand, she kicked on the door, the door moved with the hinges making some sound, Teya looked around. She walked towards Sera. Sera took a look inside, she waited.
A half minute went by, “I think, we can go in”, Sera said in a low tone of voice. Teya followed Sera as Sera went in. They took another stop at the building entrance. Another half minute, “Let’s go”, Sera said, after making sure they were good to go. They both went into the building, now, a palace of dirt, dust, darkness and 40 floors. Sera stopped by a huge board to scan the floor map. The map showed various parts of the building. Sera scanned the map for what they were looking for. Teya kpet a watch. Sera took time, going through the list of floors and sections. It was a big list, SpaceDot was a huge corporation. There were a number of floors, sections, groups and parts listed there. Sera scanned the map, top to bottom, bottom to top. ‘Where the hell is it? It is supposed to be here. The equipment section should be here, as informed by Huto. This is too much information. If I don’t find the section, it’ll be a wasted effort’. Sera had thoughts. She kept scanning the section.
Finally, after about 3 miniutes of scanning the map, she found it, ‘1243’, ‘this is the section’, Sera was glad. “We go to floor number 12”, Sera informed Teya. Together, they took off. They walked towards the elevator shaft. Then, they moved towards the staircase. The staircase was open, they both took a look, up, and finding nothing there, entered and started walking, up. “Be careful now”, Sera said to Teya. Teya kept quiet. They both moved, slightly crouched, up the staircase. It was going to take time. They climbed slowly and kept a watch on their surroundings. They both had their guns ready. Sera and Teya moved up the stairs. It took some 12 minutes before they reached the 12th floor. Once, on that floor, it was easy to find where the section was. It was right in front of them. ‘1243’. A board read. “Let’s go in, get our equipment and get out”, Sera said. Teya followed her. They entered the section. It was considerably dark, with some light seeping in from broked windows across the section. They both found the part that they were looking for. They could see boxes loaded with the device they were looking for, the boxes read, ‘Raisin’.
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