“No, not reprisals; revenge will get us nowhere.” I heard the anger in my master’s voice. This was just the sort of thing he hated: people trying to trip up something that he considered important. “Send me the saboteurs, and I’ll have my chief of security have them in for a private chat. We’ll find their employers, and then go up the chain of command until we have those ultimately responsible. I’ll have them flayed alive in Yankee Stadium. That should discourage their compatriots from trying this again.
“I want every major country in the world to have at least one working fusion reactor by the end of the year. The sooner we have clean energy-producing power plants around the world, the sooner we can push the Arab nations out of importance. I want the entire world using fusion power and el
