Deployment for males and females will begin at age seventeen. Once deployed, males will never leavethe zone until their final trip to meet WOO. Females will have to be periodically temporally broughtback to the administration center to deliver their children. Then they will be reimplanted with acontraceptive and returned to the zone. Older females, not deemed viable for child production, will besterilized and returned to the zone until ready to be terminated as non productive.

ZONE INTERVENTIONS

Zones will be under satellite surveillance at all times. If there is a special problem, Prefects may need tobe dispatched to the affected zone to rectify the situation.

PHASE III

HERD MAINTENANCE

ROUTINE DAYS AT SLAVE CONTROL

Days passed slowly at slave control during normal operations. We could observe the zones visually viathe surveillance satellites and we could also monitor the conversations of the slaves via the implants.We had total control. No activity could escape the surveillance system. When the herd was functioningnormally - which was the usual case - monitoring the consoles at slave control was really a boring job.

Sometimes we would "spice it up" a bit just to have fun. One day we found a girl - slave 12F35 - offalone planting some kind of bush. So we decided to play with her. I punched up the WOO commandmodule [this was the voice processing module which generated the "voice of WOO" so that anyoneusing the system would sound the same]. Then we entered the voice channel for slave 12F35 and wewere good to go:

"SLAVE 12F35 - THIS IS THE GREAT WOO""Oh! Great WOO, what is your command""WHAT ARE YOU DOING SLAVE 12F35?""I am planting this bush as you commanded, great WOO.""THAT BUSH DISPLEASES ME - PLUCK IT FROM THE GROUND""But, great WOO, it was you who commanded it to be planted...""DO YOU QUESTION...""I hear and obey, WOO""GOOD, NOW YOU WILL EAT THE BUSH"