‘On my mark.’Armoured bodies tensed. Riot shields and shock batons were gripped. The red lumens of breaching charges pulsed steadily.Provost-Savant Arkion looked at the enforcer squad's leader. ‘Vox?’‘Jammers active, sir.’‘Pict recorders?’‘Deactivated,…
Prisoner XC14 was going to escape. Again. The thought had started as a hunch, a gut feeling of the sort that had served Judge Saul Hax so well in his long Arbites career. Over the past day, however, it had congealed into a cold lump of uncertainty in the pit of his stomach.
The hole in the world appeared three rotations prior to when the Arbitrators of Thrax brought Janus, the discoverer of the phenomena in for interrogation. Half the planet knew about…