It was a standard issue for anyone in the Empire. Engineering insisted on very powerful Brains. Input was simply by sub-vocalized speech, but input co...ld also occur by asking the Brain to observe a process, or events, or by manipulation of a hologram. The storage capacity was never ending. Each device was integrated into the Empire’s equivalent of the Internet, but also to specialized sub-networks of faculties, if permitted.Jason had a breathtakingly large monthly allowance from Philippa. Jason. We had an occurrence of shrapnel.It is only a hundred feet... 33 meters ... from the tree to the front door of the palace. A round from a 16” rifle on the USS Missouri exploding on the tree would not have had a greater effect.BLACKNESSThe next 12 weeks ... three months ... are not in my memory ... they do not exist. Doctors, surgeons and specialists did things of which I was unaware. In my mind ... or at least ... within the range of my hearing ... plans were made, attempted and finished ... I. I asked what r you doing sis she said after a long gap I am with you and I dont like this small small things making a gap between you bro she said. Wow sometimes she speak like a poet but I hear it always in a sexy way ha ha.After cleaning the couch she came and sat near me and switched on the tv and I switched off she on it again again I did off. She smiling at me and asked me to switch tv on so that she like to see some program. So I did there the big things happened it was a news channel and. We have ahummer with a heavy machine gun. I will drive till we come to a road block. When we do, I will man the gun and you take over driving.That is exactly what we did at the first checkpoint. We rained hell on the unsuspecting guards. I didn't give a crap wbetber they were rebel or government troops. It was my plan to kill them all and let God sort them out.It worked great on the first one. On the second one we didn't ram through as we needed to. Martin was much weaker. He managed to get us.