From the outside the club looked nothing special what looked to have been a part of a warehouse in the past, a discreet club name to the right of the ...oor with a bell push under it. Once through the door it was an opulent hall way with a hostess who too our entry fee and guided us to a cloak room where we could undress and safely store our clothes and valuables from their we were given a guided tour of the premises. We were finally left in a bar area where drinks were charged to our wrist. “Ten!” he declared as one last final whip came to her ass. The heat of the whip subsided as his hand came into contact and rubbed the wounds, gently. Carefully. Lovingly. The heat was replaced by a cool numbness. “Did you like that?” he asked softly, brushing her soft hair from her ear, and whispered the words, knowing full well that she was gagged and unable to reply. But, the lust-filled gaze in her eye answered the question for him. He bit her ear lobe hard, earning a sharp intake of. I claim dominion over it and everything in it. Of course, the legal mechanism for this is the Sophia Symposium and its conservatorship of all nations, but don’t doubt for a second that this is simply the necessary instrument to ensure compliance within the rule of law.“As stated before, I have some announcements. First, for those of you still a little behind the times, my name is Mark Smythe, and I am the Archon. I rule the world now, as every nation on Earth has, through its head of state,. Also, I want a computer as similar to AI as possible to be the backup pilot.At this point, I’ll stop suggesting things until I see what the women finally decide to add to the airship’s outfitting. AI will select the scientific instruments, so I think that I am now finished with the heavy lifting part of the design phase of Z1. Anything else I add will probably be as the result of the shakedown flight and what I learn then.Ah, by the time that they had to get serious about putting things aboard.