Bound By Law by Terry Mixon

Author:Terry Mixon [Mixon, Terry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Faolan's Pen Publishing Inc.
Published: 2018-06-14T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Brad was pleased to see that Lisa Simon’s activities bore fruit before they got to Blackhawk Station. She was quickly able to establish communication with one of her former coworkers and used a shared encryption key that the man already had to send him a file that she implied had some…ahem…“intimate images.”

Not, she’d assured him, that she’d actually sent him naked pictures of herself. Whether she did or not was none of Brad’s business. All that he cared about was that the ruse got their request for specific information on tankers going in and out for Draco Limited.

Over the course of the next three days, her friend in Blackhawk Security got her a complete list not only of which ships the company routinely used and what their schedule had been in the past, but also their intended schedule for the next few months.

Even though Simon trusted the man, they didn’t tell him that they were most interested in the tankers that were supposedly servicing Fleet bases and units. Operational security for this mission needed to be tight.

Once they had the schedule, Brad closeted himself with Falcone and Simon. The former had experience with picking out patterns and unusual twists of data. The latter, even after all this time, still had an incredible grasp on how things worked at Blackhawk Station. Odd patterns there would stand out to her.

“For such a little company, they seem exceptionally busy,” Simon said after studying the data. “SaturCorp is a huge organization that has existed for decades, and they only have about twice as many tanker flights as Draco Limited. That is really strange.”

“That’s not the most interesting part,” Falcone said, tapping the screen of her tablet. “When you look at SaturCorp’s flights, they usually involve multiple tankers going to large facilities. That’s how the company makes a profit: they deliver in bulk.

“Draco Limited, on the other hand, seems to be delivering their He-3 via single tankers. Not only that, it seems as if they’re going all over the system. Even to some locations that don’t really make sense based on Saturn’s orbit.”

“What do you mean?” Brad asked, trying to see the pattern that had caught her eye in the data. Nothing stood out to him.

“Just look at these deliveries to the belt. Jupiter is much closer to the asteroid belt, and JoveCorp is in a far better position to fill many of these orders. Oh, not all. Orbital mechanics see to that, but some of Draco’s flights almost directly bypass Jupiter to get to the belt. That makes no sense at all. It has to be costing someone a lot of money to use them rather than JoveCorp.”

“Why would a small company based out of Saturn be making such long trips deep into the system if they didn’t have to?” Brad asked.

“Camouflage?” Simon asked. “To make deliveries to places someone can’t trust JoveCorp or SaturCorp to see?”

Falcone pointed at the other woman. “Exactly! Some of these deliveries are almost certainly to Cadre facilities. Probably not many, but still.

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