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Operation Polaris had been partly my idea. We’d come up with it in the final year of the war, an infiltration plan to take the struggle down the well. I fully admit it was something of a desperate measure. Finding a way to transport hostile operatives onto the surface of a planet where every square inch of airspace is covered by a wide variety of military sensors required imaginative thinking and an acceptance of some major risk factors. Our intel people calculated the probability of success at 34 percent. So it came as a relief when Riviera liberated Freak from that experimental hab and we decided on the Langley Raid instead: success rating a whopping 39 percent. But that had been wartime. Now that peace reigned over the skies once more, the risk factors could be adjusted to a lower s
