Erik leaned against the MX 60, his arms crossed, staring at Vincke’s body in the back of the cargo flitter. After the man’s stunt, they’d tried slamming medpatches on him, including antitox patches. Nothing helped, and the man stayed inconveniently dead.
That didn’t surprise him.
The conspiracy wouldn’t have used an execution method that could be easily defeated. He assumed the eventual autopsy would reveal some new and horrible nanotech or genetically engineered bioweapon. The colonel planned to hand the body over to Alina, who informed Erik and Jia via a message to the colonel that she would debrief them in a couple of days.
Striking at field operations would grant them leads, but never prisoners. They would have to get the lower-level operatives in companies like Ceres Galactic, the
