“Oh, yeah hey.” He said as recognition seeped into his brain. “I just got to bed. The dammed cops kept me there until almost nine this morning. ... spent most of that time waiting for them to decide what to do with me. Idiots.”“Look Paul, I know this is an inconvenience for you, but we have a request.“If it’s for that gorgeous woman I’ll do whatever you want.”Dezi giggled. “Thank you sir.” She shouts at the phone.“Paul, we want to remove the bling and just put the bar bells in to reduce the. Tommy, you and J Lo will be in front of the suspect’s sedan and hopefully they will move up to pull in behind you. You will also have two Special Agents riding shotgun in your back seat.“Now, is there anything else we need to cover? Is there anything else we need to know about the suspects and or their vehicle? We have already planted our own tracking device on the vehicle for our aircraft to track.”Bob had another confession to make, “Before we knew about the money and before we had contacted. I felt Mum move and the sound of the whoosh and the cane thrash in to me. I howled. This hurt much more than last night. Much much more. The tears ran down my face again. I will be able to wash them away but not those weal’s. I will know there are twenty four weal’s across my bottom, and the pain will last all day, tonight and in to tomorrow. I will remember I had been disciplined all right. When the last stroke hit me Mum told me to stand up. I got up still crying and as always she. “The new shipyard will be fully automated and capable of producing a hull per day and have them fitted and kitted within a binary cycle. The training programs for the crews are in place and morale is still high since your Governors reduced taxation back to the Imperial norm.”“So we must sit on the defensive?”“I’m afraid so, Serrenissimo. The Empire has reorganised well and could cause us massive damage if they caught us in open battle. However they have no easy answer to a fleet covered by a.