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Rick smiled at the question, leaned back in his chair and pointed at the top of the building across froht, but they could still e of the flat roof and the antennas mounted on top “When I sat up there with Ostap, I noticed that they’ve got a lot of coht? Well, one of the devices they’ve got up there is an LKN Series VI short-range broadcaster and receiver State of the art, dead simple to use and can trans in between”

“Don’t you need specialized equip like that?”

“That’s the brilliant part We worke

d with the prototypes of these for some of the work my company did in the autonomous car field They accept half a dozen types of connections and the interface is a sih almost any OS They can draer fro you tell theh their internal system so there’s no specialized software required”

“Wouldn’t so like that have been infiltrated by Damocles?” Dr Evans shielded his eyes as he looked up

Rick stood and grabbed a thick bundle of cabling that he had wrapped around the base of the monitor “Only one way to find out, eh?”

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“How much battery’s left?”

“At least four more hours before we deplete the ive us a couple more hours, tops”

“Good We’ll make land by then for sure” Commander Palmer nods in satisfaction as he clioes to check on Ted Seated on one of the floats, next to the jury-rigged outboard s to both the float and the motor like his life depends on it

Thought of in a spur-of-the- the space station, the idea for thein the water would, as Commander Palmer put it, leave the” unless they had a way to get back to shore Makeshift paddles would work, but pushing thesupplies to the shore with paddles had not been on anyone’s wish list So, before setting off for Earth, they stripped down spare parts fro that looked like ita makeshift motor

“Plastic still holding tight?” Commander Pal at the motor in the water

“See short out yet”

“Excellent At the rate we’re going we’ll be there in a few hours”