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“Exactly. The Starlinks get chipped and embedded in concrete. The positioning motors on the Starlinks are repurposed to initiate the deorbit and initial targeting. The projectiles are fitted with guidance controls, and packed in a fairing ready for launch.” The smirk turned into a serious face. “And more emplaced every few days. Enough to discourage the folks near DC and others around the world when the time comes.”

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“Tomorrow morning. The storm will be well and truly a Witch by then. This is the first time I’m relying on Gaia’s control of the environment. I’m amazed at how granular I can be. But you should go see Mayor Chow and warn her, in general terms.”

“Tell me about this ‘unfortunate accident’.”

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“There’s a Witch of November brewing, which I am encouraging and focusing. When the freighter gets near the centre of the arc defined by Kincardine and Tobermory, verifiably on the Canadian side of the border, the ship will have an unfortunate accident. It will sink and at some point the pressure trigger will detonate the device. It’ll be a major international incident.

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We took the short walk to the mine head, then the elevator and golf cart downstairs to Mica’s home. We ignored the Ultors posted at various checkpoint locations, and they ignored us. They were all aspects of Mica after all. Once securely in Mica’s cab, I continued the conversation.

“Details?”

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“Nuclear depth charge, probably a B90.”

“Weren’t they never put into production?”

“No, but some test articles were probably hidden away. Remember, we are probably dealing with some very devious, and powerful, people.”

“Yield?”

“Variable, up to 200 kilotons. Not something you want detonated within 10 kilometres of where you happen to be.” Mica got up, ready to head to the mine. “But I’m working on a solution that will open some opportunities. Let’s walk.”

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Part II

CHAPTER 10

The Gale

“The storm has started,” Mica told me one morning over my breakfast. “I’m tracking an interesting freighter on the lake. It just cleared the Straits of Mackinac, originating in Chicago.”

“Cargo?” I asked.

“Something quite small and torpedo shaped, with a suspicious radiation signature.”

“A nuclear fusion bomb?”

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And at the end of November, the storm hit.

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The world seemed to have forgotten about MIke’s announcements. We never made the news any more, which suited us all fine. Even the usual fake news and comedy programs stopped making fun of MIke within a few days as new scandals were uncovered. We all knew it was the calm before the storm.

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Thousands of conventional computers were installed in racks in an adjacent gallery, with their own data lines to the Internet backbone. The first large Petisol of the 10 megawatt class was installed in an adjacent gallery for secure local power. Barbarobo got their 500 kilowatt unit to power their aeroplane.

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Mica’s private gallery was closed off and the blast doors installed. Apart from her connections to power and data lines, she was physically as secure as we could manage. Marc and Sandra installed and commissioned several dozen additional quantum computers in other parts of her gallery.

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Our galleries were filling up with thousands of Ultors and a few hundred avatars. We had thousands of spare Petisols, each good for 5kW steady electrical output, packed and ready for shipment. Larger variants were starting limited production. On the surface we were accumulating empty sea cans, ready to ship Ultors around the world.

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We started installing the Petisol reactors in the robots as each came off the line, with enough left over to retrofit the Ultors coming in from Barbarobo. Floyd and his crew even had sent us a few avatars, so MIke was able to have a physical body presence in all critical areas. The avatars were becoming a common sight around Goderich, acting as a very effective PR interface with the public.

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The Petisol manufacturing line took a bit longer because we had to order injection casting machines and have the custom moulds made. Once the manufacturing machines were working properly, the Petisol production line soon outpaced all the robot lines put together.

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Over the next month we got the Ultor and avatar lines in full production. Michel’s crew returned in the specified two weeks and commissioned the second GF power plant. MIke and Michel had a proof of concept of the Petisol working within a week, and a production model a week after that.

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Back at the aeroplane Veronika released the tie downs and did the preflight. After hugs all around, they climbed into their magic carpet and headed home.

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With that all under control, Floyd said “OK good. Time for the three of us to go home and get to work. Betty has been holding down the fort, but with what we have learned here, it’s even more critical that we get back to do our parts. We will return as needed to get the lines running here. It is only a half hour flight, a short commute for us.”

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I hadn’t been in the barn building since we initially inspected the property, so was seeing it from a new perspective. We all agreed that with the tankage already in place, it would be adequate to our purposes.

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Back upstairs, we were joined by Judith. As we walked toward the large barn-like building, MIke said to her, “I owe you an apology too, Judith. Percy pointed out that I had made a bad assumption regarding need-to-know. Henceforth I will share with both of you any information that is shared with the others in the core group. That’s the Barbarobo team, Marc, Sandra, Michel, and Carter.”

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