Antarctica - Not Far Enough Away

[Snarl]

Holy shit.  Like an industrial lightsaber or something.  It's interesting how clean everything was that it went through, including the brick, leaving no debris.  I know this is a long time ago, but did you look at the inside of the hole of the brick wall, was is shiny, or just look like clean, drilled brick?

Looked really good and shined my flashlight into the hole even. It was neither burned nor vitrified. Just a real clean hole ... like the brick was made that way. Bet it's still that way to this day.

Often regret not walking back deeper into the treeline, but I was in civilian clothes and all I could think was, "Don't wreck those Bostonians. If you walk back there you'll shred your pants. Ain't nobody but you gonna pay for that."

I can't even guess at what might have done that.  And you said there was no debris anywhere at all right, not even from the drywall?  It's like a beam of "erase you from existence" passed through it.

I didn't see anything on the ground. And, I was glad I looked, because the colonel told me to make sure everything had been cleaned up. I took that to mean that he wanted to know all the equipment had been neatly removed ... no trash left behind in trash cans, no dumpsters overflowing with stuff that shouldn't be there. But, when I got back he hinted ... and I told him about the drywall patches and about the holes all the way out through the trees. I don't think he was real happy that I told him I had walked out there. It was almost too thorough ... and obviously, no one else had gone that far. They just stopped at the interior building walls. Also, pretty sure he went out there to look for himself ... all by himself ... and he never did like making that trek.

Maybe that's why the reptilians eat us, because we fired an energy weapon that went through that building, through the trees, through the atmosphere, through space, and domed some beloved reptilian on Zeta Reticuli 

Here's another interesting tidbit. On that specific SAP, there were a finite number of billets. I think that was one of those projects that's periodically mothballed and reconstituted elsewhere under another guise. I was read-on to seven, and that one was unique in that regard.

The other one ... the one that went into the magic building ... has a shorter story, but it's the more interesting of the two. Just waiting on Sky.