Chapter 528 Planned Obsolescence

Chapter 528 Planned Obsolescence

?Aron wasted no time after sealing Rick’s fate and immediately got to work. He turned to Gaia and asked, “How long would it take to do a deep scan of everyone with any connection to an imperial institution? And I mean all of them, all the way from the ministers at the top to the janitors at the bottom. And ARES and the nyxians, too, for that matter. We need to know if they’ve experienced any memory loss or any abnormal activities that don’t have an explanation.”

[A day, Your Majesty. It would be faster, but to do it without alerting anyone will require them to be logged into the simulation of their own will, so I’ll have the recordkeepers do it shift by shift. The employees who aren’t scheduled to work the day we choose will almost all be in the simulation anyway, since it’s still fresh and new to them so they spend all their free time in it,] Gaia replied, generating a timetable for the deep scan along with a detailed plan for its implementation.

“Good, start the scan as soon as possible,” he said. New novel chapters are published on

Then he turned to Nova and asked, “How’s the progress on miniaturizing our psionic shielding?”

[It’s ready for use, sir,] she answered.

“Then, together with the deep scan, let’s upgrade all of the government issued access devices to include psionic shielding. We can’t risk any of them being compromised in any way—not now, and not in the future. So psionic shielding tech will be integrated into everything starting with the release of second-generation public devices as well.

Aron turned to Nova again and asked, “Speaking of detection, how’s the fine-tuning of the Henry’s Eye system coming?” If they had solved the problem of sensitivity and granularity, everything else would be a walk in the park.

[Research is still ongoing, but we’ve developed an algorithm that should help narrow the search area even if the hardware isn’t where we want it.]

“Okay, then use our current satellites to do a deep scan of Earth and highlight all of the large mana concentrations that might be a gathering point for noncitizen awakeners. It’s a hail mary play, but now is the time for those,” Aron ordered.

He turned to Athena and continued, “Have ARES on standby, as there’s a chance of situations growing out of control.”

[Yes, sir!] Athena saluted.

“Have your people prepare for emergency extraction. They’re the tip of the spear, and the tip is always the first thing people see when it’s coming at them,” Aron said, looking at Nyx.

[We have extraction plans already set,] the petite spymistress said. [Most of Operation Hunting Dog was successful, but with the suicide programming it’s becoming more and more obvious that we won’t get the results we’d hoped for out of it.]

“Anyone have anything else to add?” Aron asked, scanning his gaze across the people in the room. He waited for a while, then continued, “Okay then, meeting adjourned. I have to prepare some things on my end before I move out and get to work.”

He fully expected to be spending the next ten days looking through all of the mana blobs revealed by the satellite scan of Earth, so he needed to bid his family farewell.