Quake (67 page)

‘Well,’ whispered Mongrel sombrely, finishing his beer and pulling on his heavy combat jacket. Live rounds rattled in his pockets. ‘It’s just the fucking law of the jungle, ain’t it?’ he said bitterly.

SIU Transcript

CLASSIFIED XX16/87676523/SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT

ECube transmission excerpt

Date: October 2XXX

Due to a combination of the reduction of earthquakes and return of global military and electronic control by the QIV processor upon its [suspected] destruction, world powers were able to quickly organise and disseminate armies, air forces and naval forces in order to push back the Nex infiltrators and retake control.

Several pitched battles were fought, most notably in China, Siberia, the UK, Thailand, Germany, France, Norway, Nigeria, Peru, Iran and the central United States. It is ironic that Durell spread most heavy forces of Nex numbers around the globe at strategic positions needed to pull off his scheme, leaving his own central (if somewhat mobile) headquarters relatively unprotected. He was relying more on secrecy and speed of execution and it is acknowledged that if subject CARTER had not been involved in Durell’s pursuit, it is unlikely his HQ in Austria would have been discovered - and destroyed - so easily (although it is currently unexplained why an earthquake struck at that exact location when Durell was supposedly in control).

Currently, world affairs dictate an AMBER state of emergency. The Nex forces are retreating or have been destroyed. The enemy’s situation can best be described as
disintegrating.
The World Investigations Committee (WIC) has been commended and applauded on its excellent handling of the situation. General Hiamito Kassambra, spokesperson for the WIC said, ‘Yes, our priority was action and speed of reaction -and without our decisiveness and ability to operate immediately and effectively on a true global scale, this state of world emergency would have been much more serious, and the traitor Durell probably successful in his machinations. We are to be congratulated, I think’.

Little is known of the LVA channels used to direct the earthquakes at the control impulses of the QIV processor. If this can be understood correctly, then the LVA channels are a freak geological occurrence that has a future potential to make the actual world plates unstable. Several research centres are being set up - even now before the war is truly over - to investigate this phenomenon.

Little is known of the QIV processor, other than it is based on existing QIII technology - all known examples of which were destroyed just over a year ago, again in events concerning Durell. The QIV’s base architecture was put in place by Count Feuchter [
deceased
] and the lead designers on the QIV were Jessica Rade at Spiral_Q, and Tademo Svdenska and Suzy Pagan at Spiral_R in Tibet. This processor and all relative computing developments are now under investigation by Spiral Tac and the Spiral SIU.

To conclude:

Spiral has once again been integral in halting a plot for world domination. Further investigations are needed to determine exactly what Durell’s ultimate goals were, and we still need to work hard to discover what actually happened to him - or his corpse. The file is far from closed. The game is far from over.

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Keywords: LVA, FEUCHTER, DURELL, NEX, DEMOL, QII, QIII, QIV, Spiral_Q, Spiral_R, LVA, WIC

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SCENE DISSOLVES TO ETERNITY

some
photographs
of a summer’s day

a little boy’s lifetime away

is all
I’ve left
of everything we’ve done

like a pale moon in a sunny sky

death
gazes down as I pass by

to remind me that I’m but my
father’s son

i offer up to you

this tribute

Tank Park Salute

Billy Bragg