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reached the top it levelled out and morphed in to what looked like a large grey box that in turn sprouted three branches that ran away from it in different directions. One chunky thick one ran straight up again before turning at a right angle and heading off again looking like an upside down capitol L. The other two were smaller and twig like; they ran off sloping upwards at a steady incline in opposite directions. All three ended abruptly in mid air.
    When all the extensions stopped growing the whole image turned around completing a full rotation. As the image came back around the husky female voice came back .“ This is a three dimensional image of Project Tree Cycle in its entirety. These sections are entry and exit ways . ”
    At that moment lime green arrows appeared on the screen pointing at the last three sections to be formed, the two small sloping grey lines and the thick capital L! After blinking a few times two of the green arrows disappeared leaving one pointing at the capital L .“ This is the loading and dispatch tunnel ,” said the voice setting off a few murmurs amongst the group. More green arrows appeared and started running along the inside of the loading tunnel downwards in to the large grey box above the coil .“ This is the upper level loading and dispatch dock where all goods are inspected and catalogued weather entering or leaving Project Tree Cycle. The conference room is also located here .” A small blue dot appeared on screen in the corner of the large rectangle to indicate the conference room. More murmurs rose from the group.
    “ It is from here that access is made downwards in to the heart of the facility . ”
    The little green arrows started to continuously run down through the grey tower towards the base .“ There are two personnel aces lifts and one large goods platform providing aces to the deeper parts of the facility six hundred and nine metres below sea level .” More murmurs!
    “ Directly at the base of the shaft we have the lower level dock .” The area was pointed at on screen by the eager lime green arrows .“ Within the dock are housed are maintenance, engineering and storage rooms and our number three detector . ”
    The numbers one, two and three appeared in black inside the white rectangles that encased the blue cylindrical coil on the top, middle and bottom loops.
    “Detectors,” said someone.
    “ And detectin g WHAT?” barked the Defence Minister looking at Lars.
    Lars smiled keeping his composure and simply gestured towards the screen.
    The image on the screen started to grow, zooming in. As the design grew more little details became visible, divisions between rooms, the two personnel lift shafts and walkways all came in to view until suddenly most of the image disappeared leaving just the blue coil encased by the little red doughnuts and the three white rectangles the y’ d just been told were detectors.
    “ The blue cylindrical coil ,” continued the husky narrator ,“ is a super conducting super collider of subatomic particles similar to the LHC, Cer n’ s Large Hadron Collider that runs beneath Switzerland and France. Project Tree Cycle works in much the same way by using very powerful magnets that switch on and off in a fraction of a second pushing the particles around and down the accelerator until they reach the desired speed aided by the additional help of gravity and the mini super boosters that encircle the collider detailed in red and then they are directed on to a collision course within the confines of the number three detector at the base of the system .” The red doughnuts flashed on and off on screen along with the bottom rectangle.
    “ Both groups of particles run in opposite directions down the coil and being in separate tubes we can concentrate solely on either group of particles bringing them towards their collision.
    The coil formation allows for a longer path that in turn lets us accelerate the subatomic particles to incredible