SYBER

Chapter Five

The four senior members of Syber gathered at the far end of the group's headquarters in front of a large interactive screen, with Daniel and Paige on one side and Justin and Reece on the other. They stood before the other members of the group, all of whom were watching the screen intently whilst occasionally glancing down to their folders resting on their laps. The set up was akin to a business hosting an event in a conference room, yet everyone knew the circumstances were far more serious. The room was dimly lit which led to a slightly disconcerting ambience. Justin and Daniel had spent a lot of money on the necessary technology, therefore making it vital to conserve cash in other areas.

It was quite rare for everyone involved in Syber to get together and meet in this way. Typically, everyone had their own work and tasks to get on with that they had set for themselves, with the blessing of Justin obviously. The lack of progress on the part of the U.S militarily in the war though had increased Justin and Daniel's urgency to grow Syber's role in the resistance movement. With the required pieces of the puzzle now in place to facilitate this, the time had now come to act.

"Morning everyone," Justin announced. "Thank you for coming in so early. These next couple of days mark the start of an important adventure for Syber. It has been a long process to get to this point and I am extremely grateful to everyone here for their hard work. We may not have accomplished much yet but I am certain that what we have built in this small building will represent the start of a bigger movement that takes off across the county. Daniel, Paige and Reece here are going to talk you through the plans for our first real attack on Enzian and the AAC."

Bringing up a map of the city of Baltimore onto the screen, Daniel began to speak. "Hello everybody. The four of us have collectively decided to target the Enzian station near the Ravens stadium. You'll be aware that this is the smallest of their bases in the city, but we believe it is best to start off at the bottom and work our way up to the top."

"The Enzian base is about a mile and a half to the south of us. It's a clear route down there side for the obligatory vehicle checkpoints which, as we all know, they have set up at intersections at a quarter mile radius from the station. Their usual roadblocks are bad enough but the ones protecting their stations are extremely stringent. We think we have a good work around for this though which we will come to in a minute."

"Over the past few weeks, myself, Paige and some of you in this room have been working to craft special replica Enzian drones such as these." The afore mentioned devices laid on a table in front of Daniel who picked up and raised each one in the air in turn. There were three in total with each one being made simultaneously as a clone from the one that Paige had hijacked before, leading to four drones being able to be used for the operation. They were built to perfection and even the savviest and most observant of tech inspectors would not have been able to distinguish the difference between the Enzian drone and Syber's copy of it. There was simply no price that could have been put on Syber's work.

"We did consider jamming the signal of a few more drones that belong to the fascists. In the end we decided against this due to their reaction as a consequence of the drone we have now disappearing." Everyone in the room nodded at Daniel's explanation. They remembered the countless reports of Enzian thugs breaking their way into seemingly random homes all across the city, desperately trying to find the culprit. Violence was the only way Enzian knew. Mediation was certainly not a word in their vocabulary.