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dest

n. (abbreviation of destination English)

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DEST

DEST, (an acronym of or "German Earth & Stone Works Company" Inc), was an SS owned company originally created to procure and manufacture building materials for state construction projects in Nazi Germany. DEST was a subsidiary company of Amtsgruppe W (Amt. W) of SS-Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt (WVHA). Both Amt. W and the WVHA were headed by SS Obergruppenfuehrer Generalleutnant of the Waffen SS Oswald Pohl and SS Gruppenführer Generalleutnant of the Waffen SS Georg Lörner.

The headquarters for DEST was located in Sankt Georgen an der Gusen, a small town in Austria where Gusen II, a subcamp of Mauthausen, was built in 1944.

Usage examples of "dest".

Dest for eleven years of local time that would be, he estimated, a little over ten years on Old Earth, since the shorter days on Dest more than made up for the four hundred and two of them in a year.

That meant he had left Mars three hundred and fourteen years ago by Old Earth time, three hundred and thirty-eight years ago by Dest time, ignoring, as he always did, the fact that it was virtually meaningless to speak of simultaneity on two planets so far apart in a relativistic universe.

On Dest, no one had had any idea what was going on, so the question had never come up.

His computer had had records of the fleet being sent, but no records of why it had been sent, and so far as Turner knew, no one on Dest had even realized the fleet was human in origin.

With the passage of time and his acceptance into Prauncer society, he had almost forgotten that he was the only person on Dest not born there, a war-surplus cyborg centuries out of his own era.

If a ship from Old Earth was approaching Dest, it might well be military and could be just as hostile as his own had been.

If it had fought enough before reaching Dest, its armament might be depleted by use.

If it took three hundred years to reach Dest, then the newcomer had presumably not come directly from prewar Old Earth by straight-line-course, so it might well have fired off a good bit of its original supply of ammunition at stops along the way, and so far as he knew, it would not have been able to rearm anywhere.

He suspected that if he had grown up on Dest he would be more creative in his magic.

He would assure it that Dest had always been friendly, that he was content to stay there, and the newcomer was free to stay or go, and all would be well.

The question and that familiar wording also implied that he might have a slightly harder time than he had hoped convincing IRU 247 that nothing on Dest deserved Destruction.

He remembered innumberable arguments with his own computer, which had steadfastly maintained that Dest had to be enemy territory, or at best neutral and therefore a potential enemy, since Old Earth had sent a fleet to attack it, and besides, there was no record of antigravity research being done by anyone friendly.

He might be able to talk the ship out of attacking, but unfortunately he had no authority to order it to leaveno one on the planet possessed any authority it would recognize and it was plain that Flame was not going to let it leave Dest until matters had been settled permanently, and probably fatally for one side or the other.

He was uncertain whether the computer meant that it had insufficient information to determine whether Dest was loyal or that it had insufficient information to know whether Turner was lying.

They were simply asking to be shot at, had Dest had any planetary defenses at all.