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by the client and had brought along a customized laser gun whose light
beam would carry sufficient energy through the field. But someone else had not
done their homework, he mumbled. 
        Silencer had an instinct where the
shooter could be and he turned the telescope towards an orbital space resort
that he knew was in the orbit in between the moon and the planet at that time.
He himself had contemplated utilizing it as the staging ground.
        He looked through the telescope at the
orbital resort and saw a shooter leaning over a laser gun attached to a
smaller, personal-sized telescope on its glass domed roof. The shooter had tied
himself to the tower of the resort with a tight safety harness that kept him in
place.
        Magyar the Silencer now aimed his
telescope at this shooter and steadied the coordinates upon the glass dome and
then let loose with his laser gun for five seconds. The laser went through the
shooter’s torso and shattered the glass. Magyar started packing up his gun and
his equipment back in the bag. He closed the roof of the telescope and was out
of the observatory in less than two minutes. He took advantage of the low
gravity of the moon to jump to his spaceship and started the engine the second
he entered inside.
        He increased his speed at a steady rate
at first as his spaceship flew away from the gravity field of the moon and the
planet. He felt insulted that his client had deemed to send a backup and felt
contempt that the client had sent a fool who had no understanding of the
protection measures and no knowledge of how to penetrate them.
        He increased his acceleration to the
maximum safe level. He would worry about the botched job later, right now he
needed to make it to deep space as fast as possible. If the orders went out to
the Sixth Frontier Fleet to close down the space frontiers of Zarrvyk Province
than it would become exorbitantly more difficult to escape out to the
unexplored space. He had a few pirate friends out there and now was the time to
go out and hide with them in some asteroid belt.
     

Chapter 5: Meeting
     
    The door of the palace was sealed shut right
after Remus and company had made it inside. The soldiers took position behind
the door with their laser guns drawn.
        “My hearty apologies,” Chief Detective
Rockvyk said to the bewildered Remus, “We should have better vetted our
security protocol.”
        “Do you have insurgents? Is this
building a target?” Remus asked.
        Rockvyk was flummoxed.
        “Vice-Chancellor that was an attempt on
your life,” he said.
        “On mine? Why?” Remus could think of no
reason why any Starfirian would want him dead. He had never come here before
nor advocated any political position that would make him enemies in this
country.  “And from where? I saw anti-airship lasers on the walls.”
        “Allow me to speculate,” a man walked
towards them from inside the palace. He was dressed in the usual red and black
uniform but with epaulets, medallions and decorations that indicated he was an
officer. “I am Capitan Jontvyk Tubyt. I am in-charge of this palace’s security.
Regional Star Commander is waiting in his office, please follow me,” he said to
Remus then turned to Rockvyk, “your guards can entertain themselves in the
guest hall.”
        The four SPASI guards turned left while
Capitan Jontvyk led Remus and Rockvyk to the right side of the hallway. Remus
saw that the hallway floor and walls were made of black marble while the
ceiling was colored red. The walls of the hallway were twenty-five feet apart
while the height to the ceiling was a hundred feet. The palace here was
completely deserted except for the soldiers standing guard near the windows and
the side doors. The walls were also empty of decorations or statues except for
one row of life-sized paintings of the former commanders of this palace.
        “There is an orbital resort making its
round above us at this