By the Rivers of Babylon

There was a stillness on the hill top, broken only by the ticking sounds made by the cooling of the four Rolls-Royce Olympus engines. For a moment time seemed to falter... Everything, their futures and perhaps the future of their nation, depended on what happened in the next few minutes.
 
There was a stillness on the hill top, broken only by the ticking sounds made by the cooling of the four Rolls-Royce Olympus engines. For a moment time seemed to falter... Everything, their futures and perhaps the future of their nation, depended on what happened in the next few minutes.