Book 3: Chapter 25: Battle
Bill
June 2223
82 Eridani
Premier Campbell put her face in her hands and was silent for several seconds. President Ito attempted to remain stoic, but I could see that he was shaken.
Campbell looked up. “Mack? He’s…gone?”
“No, ma’am,” I replied. “We have his matrix. Or at least, it’s still in one piece and we know where it is. But he’s offline, for the moment. We’re trying to get it to a colony site for safekeeping.”
Campbell nodded, looking relieved.
“And how can we help, Mr. Johansson?”
I turned to President Ito’s video image. “We’re trying to inventory all our assets in this system. Anything that can be used as a weapon, anything that can be remote controlled, anything SCUT-enabled, anything that can get out of atmosphere…”