| From: | "Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK> |
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| Subject: | Re: More Fun And Games |
| Date: | Fri, 4 Apr 1997 23:13:38 +0100 |
>>>>>[+++++engage Targa7
The violent wing of Humanis is on the up right now, isn't it? Troubling.
It might just be reaction to losing a hero like Thunda: but even the
"direct action" crew of Humanis that I get reports on thought he was a
menace. Sounds more like someone - or more likely several someones -
pointing money and resources at the lunatic fringe.
Why? Beats me, as usual. Could be to keep us busy. Could be to make
people scared and increase someone's share of the "security products and
services" market. Could be someone who really believes Thunda was a
prophet in the league of Isaiah or Elijah, and wants some payback: could
just be whoever financed Thunda and is annoyed at losing an expensive
and expensively-supported asset.
My biggest worry about Abraham is that someone will snuff him, and then
from now until forever I'll be blamed for it since I'm too busy to set
up a decent alibi.
I've got a third possibility.
+++++include Scourge.dat
We have background and leverage, and he's got a rep for reliability:
plus he's getting help from the FBI after a couple of assassination
attempts and he's got clearance. He should be at the meet with me, you
can decide for yourself there.
I'm not actually sure Maxim are involved here, except as having bought
and sold the shells. If it's a coverup, it's a sloppy one, and the one
thing Velli and Skulkin are not is careless. Nicole Velli is one of
those people you can respect while you oppose: she's vicious and
ruthless and ambitious, but she's also frighteningly intelligent and
extremely rational.
What's got me really worried is I had the Redeye data checked. Then I
went over it on the _Hutchison_ myself because I didn't believe the
results. There were no hot spots in the area of the house we've assumed
was a nuke refurbishment facility until a pass thirty minutes before the
explosion, which showed a faint tritium leakage: not enough to trip an
alert, but if you go over it by eye it's there. No evidence of tampering
with the images, either.
Nothing else. Nada. Zip. Zero. Which, from what I've learned about
nuclear weapons, is not possible for what we were looking at: they use
about fourteen grams of tritium each, injected into the Pit during
detonation to boost fast neutron production and so catalyse the spark
plug, plus the neutrons make the shell casing (guess what, U-238) an
active part of the detonation rather than just cargo. Worth an extra ten
to twenty kilotons of yield and halves the Pit volume.
Either they had tritium or they didn't. If they did we should have been
detecting it for days or weeks. If not... they don't have working
weapons.
There's something weird going on here.]<<<<<
-- Lynch <23:13:42/04-04-58>
