The Silver Ships by S. H. Jucha
Author:S. H. Jucha
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: S.H. Jucha
Published: 2015-02-07T00:00:00+00:00
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âCaptain, we have an intrusion at TS-1,â Julien said, simultaneously sending the message to Ser via her implant.
The two of them left their meal half-finished and raced to the bridge.
âWhat particulars do you have?â asked Alex as they navigated the corridors.
âTS-1âs master database has been copied. I queried Ser Marion Delbert, the Station Manager, as to the reason for the copy, suspecting a problem with the storage material. Ser Delbert reported that sheâd received no request for a data transfer and there were no maintenance issues.â
âWho accessed the data?â Alex asked as they arrived on the bridge.
âOne moment, Captain.â Then an instance later, âThe access code belongs to Engineer Sebastien Velis.â
âDo we have the location of Major Tachenko?â Renée asked.
âSer Delbert has alerted station security, who contacted the Major. She will be at TS-1 within a quarter hour. Security is working to relay our comm to her.â
Renée asked, âCaptain, what does this unauthorized copying mean?â
âIt means that someone has stolen the data for their own use.â
âBut if they make a Méridien product, it will be known immediately.â
âAnyone can use the data to design a productâs endpoint years down the road and then slowly introduce improvements over time until that goal is reached.â
âWhat will happen when theyâre caught?â
âIf theyâre caught, theyâll face trial, and if theyâre convicted, theyâll go to prison.â
âThey will be incarcerated?â Renée asked incredulously after Julien explained prison.
âItâs what they deserve,â Alex growled.
âI have Major Tachenko on the comm,â Julien announced.
âMajor, Captain Racine here with Ser. What do you know?â
âThe engineer and data are gone. According to my staff, surveillance shows him leaving TS-1 and getting into a hover-car just moments after the copying was complete. He left his reader on his desk, so we canât use that to locate the man, and the hover-carâs auto-tracker was disabled. This was a well-planned theft. You have my apologies, Ser. Iâve been remiss in my job.â
âMajor, I believe you do your job very well. I, for one, would not have believed one of the staff would do this.â
âDo we have anything that would help us find him?â Alex asked.
âWeâre researching him now. In the meantime, Iâve sent troopers to his residence, his parentsâ home, and we are contacting his known acquaintances. General Gonzalez has been updated and is notifying the President and the Team. Weâll know more in a couple of hours.â
âThank you, Major. Rêveur, fini,â said Renée.
âCaptain, Ser, we do have an option,â Julien said. âMy data has a unique signature that I can detect when it crosses any network that I can access.â
âWhich networks would those be?â Alex asked.
âAll New Terran networks, Captain, but I think it would be wise to keep that private.â
âUhâ¦does that include government networks?â
âIf the network has access to your comm infrastructure, I can access it.â
âBlack space, Julien.â
âPrecisely, Captain.â
âDo you need anything from us?â Alex asked.
âNegative, Captain. I will disseminate watchers to each infrastructure node. I will receive a signal the instant the data crosses a node, allowing me to track its server destination.â
Over the next few hours, few facts came to light regarding the theft.
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