The Phalanx

[fwolf]

Henry enter in the fine decorated room inside a big building in the middle of a colony in planet Hamburg. The red carpet decorated in golden details, the pictures and furniture all very signs of luxury. The big clean glass face the white desert of snow behind a desk, where, in a chair, a sinister executive look at distance. He turns to Henry and smile:
Henry: So, what is the deal? You said me to come here.
Director: I want you to bring this data file to Yanagi base.
Henry: Junkers?
Director: The ALG dont like junkers, true, but we want these data being hold by themand dont you dare to connect your neural net to it, its important information about the military, encoded so that only the right people can connect to it. If you try to connect to it, your brain will burn.
Henry leaves the room, his face showing disgust. He boards back to the ship, and Oshima look at him and show to him in the screen the incoming transmission from Leiden base. Moments after Henry is not only angry but surprised.
Moire: So, Henry, I want to recreate the Phalanx.
Henry: You want what?
The hologram displayed in the middle of the comission room shows a man in nice executive dress, but not so nice as the one of the ALG guyMoire is a business man and do all kind of deal to bring the navy down to its knees, he knewn he will never succeed but he can die trying.
Moire: Well, you put the Perseus back, right? So will not put all the others?
Henry: All officers are dead, only me survived.
Moire: We can arrange new ones. New crews. There are lot of people dissatisfied in the navy and ready to join the hackers.
Henry: Send them to the Hellfire Legion. I dont want to put the Phalanx back, Moire. It was Bergers idea not mine, I was just following my ordersand even Berger is now dead because ofwell, I dont want to talk about that. This is the past.
Moire: So, I think about the future. The navy is growing more than you can imagine, and even division is happening in their ranks.
Henry: Better that, then. We dont have money to put the ships back, and Thames is busy with other deals. So I say no to that. We already have a destroyer and Oshima is my lieutenant. If you cant trust on me you can trust on him.
Moire: But I trust you, we already had talked about that.
Henry: My answer is no. Have a nice day, Moire.
Henry turns off the channels and sit in his chair.
Oshima: Where now?
Henry: Well, lets return to Liberty space, our home, and shot at some cowboys.
Oshima: Sir, we have orders to shot the corsairs too.
Henry: Yeah, lets do that. But I will not dare to go to Omicron Gamma without some support. I known, Moire want that, butlets do it differently, not put old things back.
Oshima: So, we return to Liberty or not?
Henry: I dont known, let me think
The ship strives on the space, heading through the clouds of Sigma 13 to a unknown destination.