 Dwarf
Orders a New Computer
When both sides are setting up to continue the
struggle, each group prepares the best they know.
In the spycraft the mainframe computer has been
ruined and they were left with primitive backup
equipment, mostly manually operated. Yet their spying
capabilities are still high, at least as
reconnaissance and gathering information are
concerned. Temporally they must send the collected
data to be processed in a remote space station.
Dwarf (the Chief Commander of the Golden-Eye) orders
a new mainframe computer by phone, since the
computerized Order Form prepared by Jeremy the genius
programmer got buried along with the dead computer
that he has created.
Dwarf, to Snakes on the
video-telephone: "The new computer will arrive in two
months. It will take, by the book, 20 blinks to
install and get it working. But in actuality it will
take three more months to order the missing things
(and you bet ya there will be missing items) and then
we will have to debug all the malfunctions and code
errors. At large, take six months till the operation
is ticking again. But what's the hurry? The entire
Galaxy is at you feet and the Royal Credit flows down
like fresh butter on a hot summer day."
"You gonna get very far, you," Snakes
smiles his narrow smile at Dwarf and shuts off the
video phone. "VERY FAR, further than you can imagine!"
he viciously sneers to himself .
The rebels feel they have no choice
but to assume that ALL their actions are being
monitored. Which leaves only SPEED to protect them. SPEED IS THE SECRET OF POWER,
as once defined by the Chief of Police, who has leaned
it from Joshua Gadgets, who in turn learned it from a
sharp little girl called Ma-Tilda, who had learned it
from a good friend she calls God...
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