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It's the 28th century, and the world's population has expanded to such a degree that it has been decided to relocate the people living in the overcrowded cities into massive City Domes.

To allow for the construction of the giant domes, existing cities have been demolished and deserts formed between the domes.

Most people were happy with the relocation. However, there were a few who disliked the change, and were allowed to start new lives in the desert.

The Desert Rebels', as they were known, soon tired of trying to live from the desert, and turned to crime to survive.

This is where you step in. You are a Dome Trooper based in City Dome Alpha. Your job is defence of the dome against the rebels, who plan to take over an entire dome and use it as a stronghold.

They intend to do this by injecting a poison into the dome's water supply.

The text display offers a choice of standard Spectrum character set, or a far neater futuristic set. Having made your choice, you find yourself outside the dome. Movement to any of six city levels can be made from a nearby transporter room, at the press of a button. Many of the locations have no relevance to the game. Other more important locations, however, do include some nicely and quickly drawn graphics, which add to the atmosphere somewhat. These are also well-described in the text window.

The most annoying thing, though, is that for some reason I could not discover, the city's reactor blows up after 51 inputs! However hard I just could not do anything to prevent it. Can you do better?