Nanotroopers Episode 7: Hong Chui

  ***ANAD to Base…let me replicate a small surveillance element…drop this element into the center of the deco wake disturbance. ANAD can be tracked by satlink***

  At first Winger was a little reluctant, but he little choice. ANAD was right. They wouldn’t be losing the master bot. But there was still a risk. If the disturbance was Symborg, dropping a piece of ANAD in his midst could well mean divulging or exposing critical technology and sensitive data to Symborg and his Red Hammer handlers.

  It was a risk they would have to take.

  Menendez accelerated and dropped down to put the lifter right above where Nguyen’s QPOD said the center of the disturbance was located. Outside the portholes, nobody could see anything. Winger launched ANAD and commanded a small replication cycle…a few gazillion bots. He quickly hacked out a basic config for surveillance, tracking and comms back to Table Top. A faint sparkling mist, barely visible, filled the cabin, hovering near the cargo tracks and handholds along the cargo bay ceiling.

  Then, the lifter’s side hatch was popped and the faint stream that was the ANAD swarm was quickly sucked out into the slipstream.

  Winger commanded the master bot back into containment in his capsule. But ANAD seemed reluctant.