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So the Starbase Industrial Complex sits at the edge of Texas Highway 4,
which is this kind of flat, open,
beautiful country highway that goes basically out onto the Gulf of Mexico or Gulf of America,
depending on which side of the political divide you sit on.
Oliver Lachland is Guardian US's southern bureau chief,
and he recently took a journey to a site from where man,
one man in particular, hopes to explore a new frontier.
And it's surrounded by ranch lands, by wetlands.
You see, you know, huge flocks of birds flying across the highway.
And then almost kind of out of nowhere, these vast structures just appear on the horizon.
Some of them are the Starbase facility itself,
which is a kind of hulking mass warehouse production site.