“If you’re going to tell me you’re an agent for some foreign power…” My words petered out. He wasn’t laughing off the idea as ridiculous. “Wait…you are an agent?”
“I am, but not of a foreign power. I work for a branch of the PPA that has the best interests of Terra at heart.”
“Why are you telling me this?”
“I have vital information that needs to reach my boss.”
“And you can’t send it because Colonel Lewis’s Marines are guarding the Portal to Terra.”
“That’s only part of it. They ransacked my rooms, and all the components for the transmitter I planned to use were destroyed.”
“I…I can build you another transmitter.”
“Not necessary. I had additional components, and I put together another one.”
“Then what’s the issue?”
“It’s not powerful enough to send all the information I’ve gathere
