MARS-SUN L4—UDACHNYThere was no way around it. To operate independently, Orlov decided he would have to follow Borisovich’s advice. One by one, he shut down his portals and demolished his portal locus units. Because he had no certain way to ensure that Phoenix tensors did not survive, he transported all the units to his Moon base, where he smelted them down.
“The problem,” Borisovich told him, “is that Elektro-Garpun is infected, Udachny Station is infected, and you should assume that every piece of electronics under your control is infected.”
Orlov scowled at him but said nothing.
“We need to develop an anti-virus tensor that we can introduce into every electronics unit you have, that will seek out and destroy every Phoenix tensor.”
Orlov grunted. “And we can do this?”
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