[story] Saber Chase

[Black Aeronaut]

Looking good so far, Jet.  If UBA is what it sounds like, I can just imagine Ben's reaction when Maico asks about them.
"UBA?  I don't trust the way they do business, and I wouldn't dare to trust them with a ship out of my yards - even if it had been run all the way through hell and back and was barely worth the scrap."

Much
the same deal that Maico has with Noah, except that instead of it
developing over years, it's all at once and includes a security
clearance. (Noah doesn't share anything with Maico that he wouldn't mind
seeing all over the Interwave the next day.)

I can just hear Noah asking Ben if he thinks this is wise.  Ben'll just say that he's already made it clear in having her sign the appropriate non-disclosure agreements - though they do have a caveat that as long as it's not illegal then she'll need to get his okay before publishing anything sensitive.  She already knows how much trouble she'll be in if she violates that trust.  Beyond that, as long as she's doing her job in a respectful manner, then everything is hunky-dory.  (The way she's characterized, she doesn't strike me as the kind of reporter to give the RR too much trouble.)