Earning their Pay, Part 2
"Why the hell," the regional PRT Director asked, perplexed, "does the CUI want more time to evacuate?"
"They say they have people in the exclusion area," Dragon replied calmly.
"They just told us their response force hadn't left Shanghai."
"The endpoint their Mover needs for transport is already in the exclusion area, along with critical personnel and equipment for its operation."
"They don't have an endpoint in the designated transit area, what the fuck—" the man cut himself off abruptly. "No, later. If they want assistance extracting whatever this is, they can give you grid coordinates, volume, mass and hazard information and you can pass on to the Mover team. We aren't risking lives, and we aren't delaying."
They were already, near as he could tell, setting off something equivalent to a nuke on their own soil, in his region, and he knew they wouldn't get everyone out in time. They weren't going to risk the entire thing being for nothing because of some foreign wildcat bridgehead truce violation. But by god they would be investigating after the event.
"They say they have people in the exclusion area," Dragon replied calmly.
"They just told us their response force hadn't left Shanghai."
"The endpoint their Mover needs for transport is already in the exclusion area, along with critical personnel and equipment for its operation."
"They don't have an endpoint in the designated transit area, what the fuck—" the man cut himself off abruptly. "No, later. If they want assistance extracting whatever this is, they can give you grid coordinates, volume, mass and hazard information and you can pass on to the Mover team. We aren't risking lives, and we aren't delaying."
They were already, near as he could tell, setting off something equivalent to a nuke on their own soil, in his region, and he knew they wouldn't get everyone out in time. They weren't going to risk the entire thing being for nothing because of some foreign wildcat bridgehead truce violation. But by god they would be investigating after the event.