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wall had large monitors mounted up from end to end with a multitude of computer equipment below them with various gauges, blinking lights and what looked like sound monitors that were currently flat lined. The wall opposite had two large viewing windows with a glass door between them with another security keypad beside the handle.
    Ecologist Philippe peered through the viewing windows curiously but could only make out hanging strobe lights and a multitude of pipes and cables.
    Lars led them quietly through the baffle board maze to the end wall with the large monitors.
    While everyone caught up behind him Lars switched on one of the monitors.
    “ Gather round everyone ,” he called visibly excited, beaming from ear to ear.
    “ Right then ,” he said .“ This is our control room, where we calibrate, control, record, and review everything. There are other control rooms scattered around the facility but this is the main brain, any data recovered anywhere else in the facility get catalogued in here . ”
    “ Review what kind of everything ?” asked the Defence Minister.
    “I’ m getting to that ,” said Lars .“ Most of Project Tree Cycle, ninety percent in fact, is funded by the income generated by my computer game programming and security software business and the other ten percent comes fro m ou r Governmen t’ s renewables research and development grants .” The Defence Minister shot a look at the Norwegian Prime minister and there were unsure murmurs and awkward glances among the group.
    “ You knew about this ?” barked the Defence Minister looking at the Norwegian Prime minister, he smiled and said ,“ Yes, and I think yo u’ ll be very impressed at what these people have accomplished . ” “ We shall see ,” said the Defence Minister.
    “We shall,” said Lars smiling and he turned to the monitor waving his hand across the visual command censor and an illuminated a keypad appeared just below the monitor on a narrow shelf. Lars started typing and the screen came to life.
    “ Ok everyone yo u’ re about to see a short film that will show in detail the whole of Project Tree Cycle as it currently stands, and briefly explain what it is that we do here. Please come closer so you can all see the screen clearly ! ”
    A husky female voice began to narrate almost as soon as Lars finished saying carefull y .
    “ Welcome to Project Tree Cycle ,” said the husky voice, the words also came up along the bottom of the screen then in the centre of the screen a 3D cylindrical blue tube appeared growing from both ends, both ends rushed away from the centre and began to curve inward, turning in on themselves forming a circle. The group watched in silence.
    The two ends came around on themselves and everyone thought they were about to meet, forming a thick blue ring but they did n’ t. At the last moment one slid to the inside of the other narrowly missing it, and then they both started dropping downwards and they started to form a coil, spiralling downwards continuously looping round as they dropped further down the screen.
    The group were still silent; they all stared at the monitor, concentrating.
    After both ends had completed five loops they came together joining at the bottom and as they met three small white rectangles appeared on screen encasing the coil on the top middle and bottom loops of the coil. After the bottom rectangle appeared multiple red dots started appearing up and down the coil and grew in size until they looked like little red doughnuts encircling the cylindrical blue coil. Before the red doughnuts finished growing another form began to take shape starting from inside the base of the coil. A light grey square popped in to view near the white rectangle on the bottom loop and started growing upwards forming a tower that ran up through the centre of the middle and top rectangles.
    Each new extension to appear had a new colour adding to the three dimensional perception of depth. As the grey tower