The admiral ripped my sleeve open in front of the entire operations center. Seconds earlier he was screaming about the network collapse, blaming me for a failure I’d warned him about for months….
The air in the global command operations center vibrated with the low hum of server fans. On the central holographic display, blue icons flickered as a swarm of red tore through the network. Rear Admiral Marcus Thorne’s voice cracked with rage. “Get it back! Get it back now! ” His prize project, the Aegis Next … Read more