ASSIGNMENT: OBSERVATION & LOGGING

Date: 11/07/2358 Time: 05:32

LOCATION - LAS - QUADRANT 7 REACTOR ROOM
VISUAL SCAN - Shadow operatives "Walking Dude" and "Harpy" have just entered the room.

			WALKING DUDE
	I need to talk to comops, bring up the covert link.

			AI
	Affirmative.

There is the soft electrical whine of machinary as a section of the wall falls
away.  A holigraphic display of wireing disappears and a communications
console is revealed.  Walking Dude presses some control sections and the
monitor becomes active.  After a few seconds an older, Germanic looking 
male in military attire fills the screen.

			THE COLONEL
	We have been waiting.

			WALKING DUDE
	There have been complications.  I was forced to 
	destroy my transport.

			THE COLONEL
	Evidently subtly has disappeared from your
	vocabulary.  Don't you think a nuclear explosion
	was a little bit strident?

			WALKING DUDE
	It put a big dent in their military.

			THE COLONEL
	It also exaberrated an old problem.  Your little display
	of pyrotechnics has knocked them further off course and
	more directly into our path.  Because of your... misjudgement
	our time table is once again moved up.

Walking dude pales.  This is the first time Harpy has ever seen the man
shaken.

			WALKING DUDE
	I'm sorry, sir.  It should have occured to me.

			THE COLONEL
	Yes, it should have.  Command is very upset with 
	your actions.  We are now going to have to be 
	expediant where caution was always the rule.
	We are not happy number one.

			WALKING DUDE
	What do you want me to do?

			THE COLONEL
	Activate all of the cells.  We will be within their
	long range sensors within two weeks.  We will
	probably have to move within the following two
	weeks after that.  You will all be very busy over
	there in that time frame number one.

			WALKING DUDE
	Yes sir.  I promise things will go smoothly.

			THE COLONEL
	They had better number one.  The future of all of
	your generations depends on it.

The terminal winks out.  Walking Dude stares in silence at the dead
screen.  Harpy says nothing.




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