Chapter 13
The container was used on ocean freighter cargo ships, forty feet long, over eight feet high and eight feet wide. The floor space of a small apartment but it was no apartment. When Cinder flicked the light switch, its purpose became clear. This was the workspace of a clandestine technology technician.
Ten-foot-long workbenches, handmade of wood, lined the exterior walls of the container. Bookending each workbench were shelving units packed with electronic gear, rappelling gear, camping, tactical, weaponry.
On the first bench was a StingRay II, a rack unit fifteen inches wide and deep by eight inches in height. The front panel was steel with pull-out handles on the side, two large red lights, several switches and inputs for coax and other cabling. The StingRay functioned as a
