Mission 3: Swarm 2/3

Minister Lev is here, and so is Ambassador Drake Ekard. Security men with meaningful muscle supply flank them.

What’d you do, old man? I think.

The others seem to wait for me to react.

I shrug. “Well?”

The security head swirls up a video piece showing Mose in some garden-like area, sitting on a stone seat, hunched over a lap-sized comp. The image is nighttime, and poor. Clearly the camera was a long, long ways away from Mose.

Security Man turns to me. “He stole an Assembly comp from upstairs. Broke in from outside through a section under construction. Had it for an hour and a half before we found him.”

“Did he get into restricted layers?” asks Drake.

Security Man hesitates to answer. “Not that we can tell.”

I turn to Mose. “Why’d you do that?”

“He’s from Quishan,” says Security Man. “Should be your first clue.”

Security Man isn’t wrong. Several of the major nations and corporations on Quishan have notoriously vigorous spy campaigns on Fluke.