"Is that the sample that I requested?" said Delta, her voice ringing with a faint hint of curiosity throughout the node-room.
"Yeah, it is," said V. She held up the bone necklace wreathed in tendrils of black magical energy. "But like the boss said, you gotta tell us how you're going to use this."
"We wish to observe the process, too," said Fler'Gan.
"The process is simple-," began Emrys.
"I will explain." Delta cut Emrys off, and Aldrich noted that the president backed down without any complaint.
It seemed that in the Panopticon-AA complex that had a grasp over the entire planet, the AA was below the Panopticon. It made sense. Heroes were powerful individual security forces and morale boosters, but the vast majority - over 50% - of global safety was handled by automated Panopticon defenses.
That was not even beginning to mention the vast array of utility based resources the Panopticon offered like satellite networks, Net connectivity, city walls, and so on and so forth.
