Planet Mechanica

It was not a planet in the normal sense. It was actually a vast disc, 600 kilometers wide, above which the bell-shaped defense screen arched invisibly. The extensive disc below them contained every aspect of beauty that was to be found in the cosmos. Brazo Alkher and Stant Nolinov would have preferred to look at this miracle for hours on end but they were under the Chief's orders to fly toward a circular clearing, two km wide, on the edge of which stood a slender, fragile-looking spire that towered more than 2,300 meters into the artificial blue sky of-- PLANET MECHANICA!