“Admiral, I have a Mr. Jym Dyll to see you. He's a computer programmer, assigned to
Command And Control. He claims it's a
matter of some urgency. He says that he
wants just five minutes of your time.”
Admiral Dugan considers the
matter for a moment. “Send him in. It had damn well better be a matter of some
urgency.” The Admiral then watches a
rather average appearing young man walk into his office.
Jym Dyll
lectures, “Admiral
Dugan, security at this base is badly compromised. There is basically one problem, but lots of
sources. I know how to solve the problem
and I can do that, if you will let me do it.”
The Admiral stares at the
man in front of him. “You realize that I
have a lot of trained security personnel working on the problem and they
characterize it as unsolvable. Why is it
that you think that the problem is solvable?”
Jym Dyll
lectures, “The enemy has infiltrated this base.
They have agents inside the base and the agents have bribed several
people to furnish classified information to the enemy. Why would the enemy pay people to furnish
them classified information?”
The Admiral sighs and
states, “They are disrupting the mission of this base, to the point to where
what we do is useless, perhaps, worse than useless.”
Jym Dyll
lectures, “Suppose
that the supposedly classified information, being furnished to the enemy, was
wrong? Not only was the information
wrong, but it would result in the enemy deploying forces to counteract
non-threats, while our forces struck at positions undefended, because the enemy
was watching the wrong places. What
would then happen to those that the enemy bribed to betray our side?”
The Admiral muses, “The
enemy has a very vicious mind set. They
would severely punish those who furnished the false information.”
Jym Dyll
lectures, “Given the opportunity to operate in secrecy, I can cause the enemy
to receive false data that will result in them committing forces to areas where
their forces will be useless. Meanwhile,
your forces can strike at areas where the enemy will be weak, because of
reaction to the false data. I have laid
out my plan, in detail, for your eyes only.”
The Admiral thinks for a
moment and then says, “I will review your plan, only because of the desperate
situation here. I'll let you know what I
decide.”
The interview is obviously
over and Jym Dyll departs,
saying only, “I'll wait for your answer.”
Jym returns to his work area
and then checks with the Department Secretary.
“Do I have any mail?”
Corrine says, “Nothing this
morning. I got your weekly report, that
you dropped off earlier.”
Jym says, “Yeah, I have to
file that weekly report, or Nathan gets on me, really bad. Well, it seems that I need to go to the
Monday Morning Meeting.”
Corinne snickers, “Yeah,
the last time that you missed one, Nathan almost had a heart attack.”
Jym sighs and says, “The fact
that I had the supplier repair people in early and I had to escort them was the
only thing that saved me.”
Corinne says, “I remember
that. It got escalated up to the
military command and they had to pull Nathan off you.”
Jym laughs and says, “The
military could see that repair of critically needed equipment was more
important than a routine meeting. Nathan
needed his time in the spotlight and he just couldn't see it that way.”
Jym then strolls into the
meeting room and finds a seat, down at one end of the table.
Billy and George are
already there and they sit near the center of the table, with just Nathan's
empty chair between them. Each of them
regards Jym with hostility, however, they don't say
anything. (George still bears scars from
the beating that Jym put on him, when he attacked Jym. George is
bigger than Jym, Jym is
quicker and stronger.)