Title:Use of Weapons
Author(s): Iain M. Banks
Publisher(s): Orbit
Pages: 512
Year: 2008
Format: MOBI
Language: English
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He watched through the stone balustrade, scanning the group with the suit$prime;s built-in effector and watching the results on the visor-screen head-up. Thirty plus of the people were carrying what were in effect terminals; links to the planet$prime;s communications net. The suit$prime;s computer covertly interrogated the terminals through the effector. Two of the terminals were switched on; one receiving a sports broadcast, another receiving music. The rest were on stand-by. $prime;Suit,$prime; he whispered (not that even Tsoldrin, right beside him, could have heard him, let alone the people in the tourist group). $prime;I want to disable those terminals, quietly; to stop them from transmitting.$prime; $prime;Two receiving terminals are transmitting location code,$prime; the suit said. $prime;Can I disable their transmit function without altering their present location code function, or their present reception?$prime; $prime;Yes.$prime; $prime;Right; the priority being preventing any further new signals, disable all the terminals.$prime; $prime;Disabling all thirty-four non-Culture personal commnet terminals within range; confirm.$prime; $prime;Confirmed, dammit; do it…$prime; $prime;Order carried out.$prime; He watched the head-up alter as the internal power-states of the terminals sank back to near zero. The tour guide was leading the people across the stone plateau of the old observatory, towards where he and Beychae were, and away from the hovering aircraft. He shoved the suit face-plate up, looked round at the other man. $prime;Okay; let$prime;s go. Quietly.$prime; He went first, through the undergrowth, between the crowding trees; it was quite dark under the half-fallen foliage, and Beychae stumbled a couple of times, but they made relatively little noise as they trod the carpet of dead leaves round two sides of the observatory platform. When they were under the aircraft, he scanned it with the suit effector. $prime;You beautiful little machine,$prime; he breathed, watching the results come up. The aircraft was automatic, and very stupid. A bird probably had a more complicated brain. $prime;Suit; patch into the aircraft; assume control without letting anybody else know.$prime; $prime;Assuming covert control-jurisdiction of single aircraft within range; confirm.$prime; $prime;Confirmed. And stop asking me to confirm everything.$prime; $prime;Control-jurisdiction assumed. Lapsing confirmatory instruction protocols; confirm.$prime; $prime;Good grief. Confirmed!$prime; $prime;Confirm protocol lapsed.$prime; He considered just floating up, holding Beychae, into the craft, but even though the aircraft$prime;s own AG would probably mask the signal his suit gave off, it might not. He glanced up the steep slope, then turned to Beychae and whispered. $prime;Give me your hand; we$prime;re going up.$prime; The old man did as he asked. They went steadily up the slope, the suit kicking foot-holds in the earth. They stopped at the balustrade. The aircraft blocked out the evening sky above them, yellow light spilling from the belly entrance above the ramp, faintly illuminating the nearer stone instruments. He checked on the tour group while Beychae got his breath back. The tourists were at the far side of the observatory; the guide was shining a flashlight at some ancient piece of stonework. He stood up. $prime;Let$prime;s go,$prime; he told Beychae, who straightened. They stepped over the balustrade, walked to the ramp and up into the aircraft. He followed Beychae; he watched the rear view on the helmet screen, but couldn$prime;t tell whether anybody in the tour group had noticed them or not. $prime;Suit; close the ramp,$prime; he told the suit, as he and Beychae entered the single large space of the craft$prime;s interior. It was ornately luxurious, its walls slung with hangings and its deeply carpeted floor dotted with large chairs and couches; there was an autobar at one end, while the opposite wall was a single huge screen, presently displaying the last of the sunset.
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