Stronghold by Dmitry Dubinsky @ Infinispace.net

 
The desert outpost was routinely punished by the scouring sandstorms that ravaged the surface of Halcyon . . . a name surely given in jest when the planet was first colonized almost a century before.  But on occasion the storms clear, the moons peak out, and the stronghold stands …

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