Bryn was the geeky one, and from an early age he'd been able to sit still for hours, absorbed in writing and debugging code. Nic couldn't imagine himself ever having the patience to do that. He was a big picture guy, and he needed to be active all the time. A career in Core Worlds' Combined Forces had seemed a perfect fit, so he'd signed up for a twenty year commission.
Big mistake. Shortly after he'd joined he'd realised that humans were mounting a big land grab against the N'adiim. He'd quickly realised his moral centre was stronger than he'd thought and he couldn't bring himself to kill innocent aliens.
He'd managed to get himself out of the front line and into intelligence work before he got to the point of actually disobeying orders. He'd spent the last ten years volunteering for unpopular and uncontroversial assignments most people rejected as too boring.
Three years ago his commission had ended and he'd hightailed it out of CF as fast as he could go. Despite a very lucrative bribe to take on a new commission he hadn't weakened. He was now the owner of Nic Hunter Security Services, a company that had already made a reputation as a competent and ethical outfit.
The questionable ethics of Bryn's plan to smuggle his AI out of Exoviron bothered him more than he'd admitted to his brother. If the AI went to Ren he was afraid his sister would get dragged into things she didn't understand and get hurt. Ren didn't know any more about security work than Bryn.
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