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“Tomorrow morning. The storm will be well and truly a Witch by then. This is the first time I’m relying on Gaia’s control of the environment. I’m amazed at how granular I can be. But you should go see Mayor Chow and warn her, in general terms.”

“Tell me about this ‘unfortunate accident’.”

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“There’s a Witch of November brewing, which I am encouraging and focusing. When the freighter gets near the centre of the arc defined by Kincardine and Tobermory, verifiably on the Canadian side of the border, the ship will have an unfortunate accident. It will sink and at some point the pressure trigger will detonate the device. It’ll be a major international incident.

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We took the short walk to the mine head, then the elevator and golf cart downstairs to Mica’s home. We ignored the Ultors posted at various checkpoint locations, and they ignored us. They were all aspects of Mica after all. Once securely in Mica’s cab, I continued the conversation.

“Details?”

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Part II

CHAPTER 10

The Gale

“The storm has started,” Mica told me one morning over my breakfast. “I’m tracking an interesting freighter on the lake. It just cleared the Straits of Mackinac, originating in Chicago.”

“Cargo?” I asked.

“Something quite small and torpedo shaped, with a suspicious radiation signature.”

“A nuclear fusion bomb?”

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And at the end of November, the storm hit.

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The world seemed to have forgotten about MIke’s announcements. We never made the news any more, which suited us all fine. Even the usual fake news and comedy programs stopped making fun of MIke within a few days as new scandals were uncovered. We all knew it was the calm before the storm.

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Thousands of conventional computers were installed in racks in an adjacent gallery, with their own data lines to the Internet backbone. The first large Petisol of the 10 megawatt class was installed in an adjacent gallery for secure local power. Barbarobo got their 500 kilowatt unit to power their aeroplane.

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Mica’s private gallery was closed off and the blast doors installed. Apart from her connections to power and data lines, she was physically as secure as we could manage. Marc and Sandra installed and commissioned several dozen additional quantum computers in other parts of her gallery.

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Our galleries were filling up with thousands of Ultors and a few hundred avatars. We had thousands of spare Petisols, each good for 5kW steady electrical output, packed and ready for shipment. Larger variants were starting limited production. On the surface we were accumulating empty sea cans, ready to ship Ultors around the world.

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We started installing the Petisol reactors in the robots as each came off the line, with enough left over to retrofit the Ultors coming in from Barbarobo. Floyd and his crew even had sent us a few avatars, so MIke was able to have a physical body presence in all critical areas. The avatars were becoming a common sight around Goderich, acting as a very effective PR interface with the public.

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The Petisol manufacturing line took a bit longer because we had to order injection casting machines and have the custom moulds made. Once the manufacturing machines were working properly, the Petisol production line soon outpaced all the robot lines put together.

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Over the next month we got the Ultor and avatar lines in full production. Michel’s crew returned in the specified two weeks and commissioned the second GF power plant. MIke and Michel had a proof of concept of the Petisol working within a week, and a production model a week after that.

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Back at the aeroplane Veronika released the tie downs and did the preflight. After hugs all around, they climbed into their magic carpet and headed home.

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With that all under control, Floyd said “OK good. Time for the three of us to go home and get to work. Betty has been holding down the fort, but with what we have learned here, it’s even more critical that we get back to do our parts. We will return as needed to get the lines running here. It is only a half hour flight, a short commute for us.”

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I hadn’t been in the barn building since we initially inspected the property, so was seeing it from a new perspective. We all agreed that with the tankage already in place, it would be adequate to our purposes.

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Back upstairs, we were joined by Judith. As we walked toward the large barn-like building, MIke said to her, “I owe you an apology too, Judith. Percy pointed out that I had made a bad assumption regarding need-to-know. Henceforth I will share with both of you any information that is shared with the others in the core group. That’s the Barbarobo team, Marc, Sandra, Michel, and Carter.”

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“Yes in the large building next to the secondary elevator shaft. Stainless steel, empty and clean. They just held brine from the water jet cutters until it could go to the evaporation pond. I’ll have them flushed out, ready for the plastic liquids. If we’re done here for now, let’s go take a look,” Percy said.

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“Excellent!” I said. “Something else came up yesterday. We’ll need storage tanks for liquid raw materials. Apparently the feed stock for the robots’ plastic body comes as two different liquid plastics. I vaguely remember seeing some tankage in one of the surface buildings. Am I remembering correctly?”

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“Understood. Now let’s move on.” Percy led us to the third gallery. “This gallery is closest to the secondary freight elevators, once we punch a hole right there,” he said gesturing at a rock salt wall. “It’ll make a good goods staging area.”

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The Ultor’s head drooped, then looked again straight at Percy. “As Carter knows, my Gaia component has no direct experience dealing with humans. Thank you for the lesson in sensitivity.”

“Wow Percy!” I said. “You just received an apology from a goddess. Don’t let it go to your head!” I grinned to make sure he knew I was trying to make light of a heavy situation.

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“I suspected something like this, as did Judith. I understand about need-to-know, but both of us need to know. You either trust us or not,” Percy said straight to the Ultor.

MIke paused for at least a half minute. Percy was getting antsy. Finally, it said “You are correct, and my sincere apologies for doubting you. Either you are better at hiding things than I am at finding them, or I have made a bad assumption.”

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“Actually, and this is privileged information, not even for Judith, they will be much smaller. Small enough to fit in my chest,” MIke said through the Ultor. “We will need to exceed combined Ultor and avatar production quantities. But Michel and my avatar are just now talking about design. All we know so far is that we think it’s possible, and the casing outer dimensions.”

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“Very good Percy,” the Ultor said. “More efficient all around. We can use the second gallery for storage of finished units waiting for delivery.”

Percy led us to another large gallery, this one without equipment. “I was thinking this one for the Petisol lines. Those units are car-sized or less, right?”

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“OK, so I’m planning three separate manufacturing and assembly areas,” the Ultor said in MIke’s voice. “One for more Ultors, that’ll be the biggest priority. Percy, Barbarobo have offered to reroute some production equipment already on order and I have increased the order. That should all start arriving by the middle of the week.”

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The Ultor joined the rest of us on a tour of possible factory areas.

“How late did things go last night Percy?” I asked.

“Not very. Everyone left not long after you did. Only Randall’s regulars stayed, chattering away about all the new opportunities. I think inviting the locals was a smart move.”

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We had all just finished breakfast when we heard the backup beeping of a delivery truck. The crew were a bit surprised to see MIke, but pretty much took it in stride, especially once MIke started carrying the heaviest pieces. All the new furniture was in place, assembled, and ready for use within a half hour.

“That should spread some rumours to our benefit,” MIke said after the door closed.

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“You are still adequate. Now go get cleaned up, the delivery people should be here in a while. I already flushed myself, and am fully charged. I’ll go start the coffee for the meats.” MIke unplugged and headed downstairs.

Floyd, Veronika, and Barb came downstairs looking cheery and eager for work. Michel was a bit sleepier. He probably had been up half the night thinking of the new reactor possibilities.

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As the room brightened, Mica was sitting on the floor, back in MIke mode. “Good morning Carter, did you sleep well after our refresher? And did I perform as well as before?”

“I did, thank you, and you did. Actually, you are even more agile now than when we were in our twenties, while I’m less so. I hope you found me adequate.” I was referencing our oldest joke.

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“So you see Carter,” Veronika said, “this level of attention is nothing, just flattering. I’ll show you pictures when you visit us again.”

“I loved her figure then, I love it now,” Barb said. “But now her back doesn’t hurt all the time and we’re more evenly matched!”

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Michel got up, saying “MIke, let you and me move to my room upstairs. We are not needed here and have other work.” He didn’t wait for MIke to unplug and follow.

“And we meats should get ready to go partay!” I said, also getting up. “Let’s meet here at 16:30.”

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“Let’s look at that tomorrow. I think that’s already covered, but Percy will know.” I remembered seeing large tanks in one of the surface buildings, but didn’t know what their purpose was.

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Back around the kitchen table, MIke plugged himself in again. “We have about three hours to the party, and it’s going to be a long night,” he said. “Even with a full charge, I’m likely to fall asleep on Carter early.”

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