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world badly in need of a new work-force. Thus were born the genetic up-lifts of the early Twenty-First Century, as species after species was uplifted into se

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practicing my hook-shot with the waist-can and in walked this doll. She sauntered in with that

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gate. Not when nobody cares about the Interspecies Council in the first place (for history buffs who have been under a rock for the past few decades,

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, looking around nervously. I began thinking th

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began to investigate. In the next few weeks I saw less and less of him until, finally, he came in looking sc

on, "And what convin

of a shirt pocket an

drop. It's his. I think i

ad been used. There's only one way that you remove these thing

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, and said, "He found that all the discrepancies o

d again, "He also referred to an Operation Sunbu

d watched as my computer, ICy, popped up from the center of my desk, the surface flipping up into a holo-screen and the senso-pad keyboard coming up from the center. ICy wasn't exactly government

oftware, like everyone else and their grand

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being transferred out three

I'll

as a Janitor

up instead of doing the sweeping. Well, what a

s down for a transfe

"See what you can get me on MUT and any connections

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mp the

gave me the raspberri

t with some large scale polishing here and there that the focal point of Iran, et al, would be someplace up in orbit. So, a bit of work and a few satellites later, and the sunlight coming off of the plain is focused onto a large geo-stable set of

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e at this office. He was transferred away about six m

It's on the top level of the 'Plex, exposed to the sunlight and everything (well, what there is of it). The front office was big and plush and a bit gaudy, done up with pictures of some of its various holdings and projects, mi

old office. I lent something to him, you

ce has been thoroughly c

aid as I casually slipped a ta

ither side of it watching me, got into my car, set the elevation at

t're you getti

ernal security, are running a check on you, and there's radar impu

at I ought to

. You ought to se

he address

up

nd see about getting into the MUT

system could spit me

e, wh

I hear and

my way. I also turned on my traffic radar

iced a blip about five minutes behind

rown a tail, " I mut

controls. As I moved, the blip moved. So,

el with Tango's scanners. I needed a specific type for what I had in mind. Co

began t

I'm onto

e blip closed to three miles; it mus