The Jennifer Project by Enright Larry

Author:Enright, Larry [Enright, Larry]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Kindle Press
Published: 2016-06-21T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

The next morning, I woke Deever early to discuss a discovery that I had made during the night. Using Mr. Kent’s access codes, I had explored the Pan-Robotics research database and found a disturbing pattern of communications to and from locations around the world. The addresses with which they were communicating meant nothing in and of themselves. All appeared to be innocuous privately held companies when researched on the OmniNet, but from the nature of the data being transmitted, it was obvious that all was not as it appeared. They were sending and receiving encrypted technical data on the manufacture of advanced weaponry. This made me curious.

I initiated an easily detectable security breach on the Pan-Robotics network, one serious enough to require a password reset on all terminals. All accounts were immediately disconnected, and as employees logged back in and reset their passwords, I collected them. This gave me access to their financial database, which contained years of transaction records showing the sales of everything from small arms to ballistic missiles. I also located records of their purchases of controlling interest in a multiplicity of companies around the globe: mining companies, steel and plastic fabricators, small parts manufacturers, industrial equipment distributors, precision parts assemblers, software engineering firms, and state-of-the-art robotic manufacturing facilities.

The Pan-Robotics Corporation is not just a government defense contractor, Deever. It is the world’s largest vertical enterprise whose primary business is the manufacture and sale of arms, and your government is not their only customer.

“Wow, far out,” said Deever. “Who else do they sell to?”

From what I can determine: other governments, militias, terrorist organizations, individuals with private armies. It appears that anyone with sufficient money or appropriate collateral is an eligible customer. Ideology, ecological effects, humanitarian concerns—none of these appear to be factors in the decision-making process.

“That can’t be right.”

The data is clear, Deever. They supply weapons to all sides in a conflict to prolong the fighting and increase their profits. It is irrelevant to them who wins or loses a war because the winner will continue to buy weapons from them to maintain their control, and in the event another contender arises to vie for that control, Pan-Robotics will be there to supply them as well.

“The government would be majorly pissed if they found out about this,” he said. “Dude, that’s it. That’s how we bring these jerkweeds down. We’ll blow the whistle on them.”

Deever, the executives and boards of directors in the complex matrix of Pan-Robotics companies are politicians, military commanders, public figures, scientists, bankers, businessmen, religious leaders—all influential people in their client countries, including yours. They already know.

“Wow. That sucks.”

They are engineering a system of controlled chaos to ensure that they ultimately become the system. It is a simple, elegant concept.

“And totally evil.”

After breakfast, Mr. Kent showed up at the lab with two guards. The calculus had predicted that he would arrive with only one to escort Deever to the Pan-Robotics Tower. I factored this apparent overcautiousness on their part into the equations of likelihood, but the outcomes remained the same.

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