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"I don't know why I have to wear a three-piece suit for this," Noah complained.
Yayoi sighed. "If you don't make a good impression out there, nobody's going to take you seriously."
"They aren't here for me, they're here for the Catalog. Why can't I just wear my usual polo shirt, slacks, and kevlar-lined jacket?"
"That isn't sufficiently professional. You aren't Steve Jobs, after all."
Noah sighed. "Polo shirt, not turtleneck."
"Noah, you trusted me enough to give me Yoriko's position as Vice-President of Stellvia Corporation. Trust me on this."
The door opened. Noah smiled when Safety bowed in midair as the door closed behind her - she was still so new that everything she did was delightful. What she had to say broke the mood. "I'm sorry to interrupt, but I just received a message from the Magnificent Midnight. Cortana and Midnight are picking up some odd signals from the Ganymede sensor network."
"Odd?" Noah raised an eyebrow. "In what way?"
"They aren't sure."
Noah started untying his tie. "I have a bad feeling about this ..."
"You do have a tendency to overreact, Noah. Are you overreacting again?"
"Consider what we're presenting here, and how much it would be worth if not everybody had a copy of it. I have to go out there and present the Catalog, so I'm wearing my body armor. I want the rest of you someplace relatively safe, and the safest place I can think of is inside the Epsilon Blade with its forcefield turned on. Prep for launch as soon as the three of you are aboard - I want you to, as the Warsies say, 'pick up your visual scanning.' Coordinate flight paths with Midnight."
Yayoi and Safety nodded. "Do you have any messages for Kohran?" asked the latter.
"Yes," nodded Noah. "Kohran is to drop whatever she's doing and get back to the ship right now, and ..."
Safety waited for a moment. "Sir?"
"And ... tell Kohran she's to remove the weapons locks from the kaboomite warheads."
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
"I don't know why I have to wear a three-piece suit for this," Noah complained.
Yayoi sighed. "If you don't make a good impression out there, nobody's going to take you seriously."
"They aren't here for me, they're here for the Catalog. Why can't I just wear my usual polo shirt, slacks, and kevlar-lined jacket?"
"That isn't sufficiently professional. You aren't Steve Jobs, after all."
Noah sighed. "Polo shirt, not turtleneck."
"Noah, you trusted me enough to give me Yoriko's position as Vice-President of Stellvia Corporation. Trust me on this."
The door opened. Noah smiled when Safety bowed in midair as the door closed behind her - she was still so new that everything she did was delightful. What she had to say broke the mood. "I'm sorry to interrupt, but I just received a message from the Magnificent Midnight. Cortana and Midnight are picking up some odd signals from the Ganymede sensor network."
"Odd?" Noah raised an eyebrow. "In what way?"
"They aren't sure."
Noah started untying his tie. "I have a bad feeling about this ..."
"You do have a tendency to overreact, Noah. Are you overreacting again?"
"Consider what we're presenting here, and how much it would be worth if not everybody had a copy of it. I have to go out there and present the Catalog, so I'm wearing my body armor. I want the rest of you someplace relatively safe, and the safest place I can think of is inside the Epsilon Blade with its forcefield turned on. Prep for launch as soon as the three of you are aboard - I want you to, as the Warsies say, 'pick up your visual scanning.' Coordinate flight paths with Midnight."
Yayoi and Safety nodded. "Do you have any messages for Kohran?" asked the latter.
"Yes," nodded Noah. "Kohran is to drop whatever she's doing and get back to the ship right now, and ..."
Safety waited for a moment. "Sir?"
"And ... tell Kohran she's to remove the weapons locks from the kaboomite warheads."
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012