He pushed a hand through his brown hair, making the fringe stick up. He really must schedule a haircut, but he couldn't think about such mundane things right now. He'd been worried since Pan stumbled over this meeting entry in the Board Room diary. He sensed the company was in trouble.
His attention was drawn back to the wallscreen as the door of the Board Room opened and two men walked in. They both wore immaculate black business suits, but he could tell by the way they walked stiffly to attention that they weren't civilians,
"I don't like this," he muttered as they sat down. The older man introduced himself as Lars Zehara, Exploration Director. The other one was Wolf Halan, Robotics Programme Director. The names sounded phoney to him.
"Pan, can you do a CoreNet search on their company, please," he said.
The AI reported that he could find no trace of the company, or of the two directors either. Bryn's sense of unease deepened. "I have a feeling they're Combined Forces," he said. The Core Worlds had collected together their land, sea, air, and space militaries decades ago into one huge organisation. Bryn suspected this bogus company and its phoney directors were a front for some dodgy CF operation.
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