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“At least noe know our little ruse works”

When docking in ports where oversight was lax and the underpaid adet inspectors to cut short their visits by buying the that they couldn’t wait to leave But that trick wouldn’t work in countries where the standards were higher and the harbormasters well paid and principled

The new Oregon could beher to call on ports that were never available to the Corporation’s previous ship To get past an inspection thatsome of its hidden secrets, they had to coet inspectors off the ship prematurely

Since the Oregon was actually controlled froe could be made to look like a shambles or, as it was today, it could be dressed up to seem as if it were fresh froh to ments

The video of the fake engine roo doused with fire retardant foao on a movie set The only part that was live was Eddie’s appearance on the ed up by Kevin Nixon It had a hidden heating element that induced Gulnets eot it close to the control panel The rest was theatrics and Juan’s improvisation

“Any more word on that incident in Port Cook?” Juan asked Eddie News had been trickling out about a situation that sounded suspiciously similar to what happened on the Empiric

“The Australian ,” Eddie said “The latest is that they have five hundred and eighty-four casualties Of that total, there were seventeen deaths, and the rest are paralyzed like Murph”

“Anyone not afflicted?”

“Just the four airmen ere the skeleton crew of the nearby base The ruas leak at the base was caused by a fire in a top secret storage depot A lot of Australians are convinced that both Port Cook and the Empiric are the fault of their own military”

“Or it was made to look that way I don’t buy that the military could have two similar ‘accidents’ a thousand miles away from each other in just a few days Port Cook and the air base are right on the coast”

“Do you think it was another attack like the one Sylvia Chang described?” Eddie asked

“Maybe But we don’t have anything concrete to connect thenition of Sylvia’s mystery couple The only lead we have is a crate she saith a logo of Alloy Bauxite, and that’s pretty thin Do you have the satellite photos of their facility?”

“Right here,” Eddie said, tapping on his tablet “But it doesn’t look like it’s going to be easy to get to”

The i in the s It had a small annex attached to it The structure lookedfactory The Marsh Flyer was parked next to it, and several other vehicles were scattered nearby Eddie zoo but swampland for miles around, with just a corridor denuded of trees for the hovercraft to navigate to and from the bay

“We can’t go in by air,” Juan said “The tiltrotor is too noisy Can we get there by boat?”