The most difficult part in creating a new base for April was the place of selection. She looked through all map catalogs, searched all possible archives, and finally found it. The star system she chosen was perfect and in a very good strategic position. When she was certain that this place was it, she gave the coordinates to Jesse Blue who then gave an order to send all troops and vehicle as well as to deliver the construction materials.

The star in this system was so bright, that it was the only planet in a distance of 6.5 astronomical units. It was getting enough heat to have a climate similar to Earth. The planet had a name - Santa, with a wide asteroid belt surrounding it. Perhaps, a long-long time ago it was a twin planet or a very large satellite, but now the Ring lightened the virgin surface every night.

Santa already had an Earth colony, but the settlements was so rear, that the Outriders managed to built a huge base without been spotted by the settlers.

At first the new folks started to arrive to built their homes on the planet. Of course, no one suspected that it was Outriders. After the heavy loader transports came, bringing the building materials for the new settlers, and yet, no one took notice at them while on the edge of the central city a huge domelike center grew.

Officially it was known as a large industry center, a branch of one of the daughter companies of the biggest galactic syndicate called "Space Industry and Science." From the first days of operation, the company started to finance different funds and social programs. It also sponsored a festival and opened a global ecological program.

So, at the moment then it become known that the major part of the company staff was not humans, there wasn't a big dust-up. Now, at every corner, colorful posters were hung up, calling out to live in peace and harmony, work to the mutual benefit. And that was the end of the story. Peaceful citizens completely chose to forget about difference between them and took Outriders as normal humans.

In the meantime, these aliens from another dimension started to build Stellar's solar-power guns under April's direction where it was to be placed in the asteroid belt.

April decided to put various weapons all around the planet, one at each degree of the circle. 180 guns were pointed in to the outer space, while the rest 180 guns were directed to the Santa's main settlements. By doing so, the base could defend itself, but if needed it could turn the whole planet hostage in mere seconds.

As for now there wasn't even a trace of a danger, so the Outriders didn't give out their intentions away. Right after the base defense system were put on-line, Jesse Blue ordered a group of Outrider scientists to design new Renegades.

When April found out about it, she snapped at Jesse, shouting at him that he did not trust her at all, underestimating her.

"All yours super killer-robots are so old that you can find a complete scheme of them printed in every book!"

"I'm doing that to be on the safe side," Jesse was telling her, "Of course, you are right, they can't stop the Star Sheriffs, but will be more then enough for the locals. Plus, I had to think of something to do for those lazy Outriders."

April ate that and nether touched that subject again.

For more safety precautions, Jesse decided to leak out the information that April Eagle was in his hands by that time Stellar was finished with her force-field gathering system. Starting that moment on, everything worked according to plan, the guns at the asteroids were now at an endless power supply disposal.

One more thing that Stellar insisted on doing so was to apply a flying transport platform. It was used everywhere on Lavana and Stellar just couldn't understand how others could not live without it. This device needed a lot of energy, so it was allowed to use it only to transport heavy things. Since Jesse didn't want anyone to find out about the platforms, they were used only inside the base.

Using these new discoveries, Jesse Blue and April Eagle were counting on to win a battle against Cavalry Command.

Stellar continued helping them blindly, even through she was startled with a change in her sister. For the short time they were together, she understood how is it to have a sister and didn't want to loose her sister again. She still believed in Jesse and followed to the letter every order he gave her.

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