"Ken Rand - Here There Be Humans" - читать интересную книгу автора (Rand Ken)

тАЬIтАЩm just marking all the colors.тАЭ

тАЬThe Bureau tracks population diligently. Prox monitors and implants are hard
to lose. Less than three thousand people live in the South America reserve, mostly
convicts. Accounted for. The only way a disappearance could be unofficial is if,
ifтАФтАЭ

тАЬIf the reporting agency lies.тАЭ

тАЬI suppose it could happen. Sir, the outlaw myth is nothing more thanтАФa
myth. ItтАЩs possible to live out there with a makeshift breather and no exosuit, but
whoтАЩd want to try?тАЭ

The scene beyond the window made AтАЩcom dizzy and he swiveled in the
chair to face his team. тАЬTheory. Ryal, Check it. See if you can find record of
downwell officials hiding disappearance numbers. Check for sightings of escaped
cons or encounters with them. Maybe itтАЩs more than a myth. Maybe a few went
native and got organized. Maybe thereтАЩre more outlaws than weтАЩve been led to
believe.тАЭ

тАЬWhy, Sula?тАЭ Dor KтАЩrou said.

тАЬI know, no ransom note yet, butтАФтАЭ

тАЬIf there are escaped cons, why would officials lie about it and risk dismissal?
TheyтАЩd still have to meet quotas but with fewer workers. Everyone would have to
pick up the load and theyтАЩd resent it. No, Sula, I see no incentive for a cover-up.тАЭ

тАЬMore,тАЭ Dev FтАЩrar said. тАЬAdministrators who lose staff in accident and error
get reassigned. And disappearances? Even cons, thatтАЩs a trip to a Homeworld
gulag.тАЭ

тАЬA prison cell on Homeworld,тАЭ Dor said, тАЬis better than a shift downwell on
Earth.тАЭ

More chuckles. Really in their colors.

Something nagged at AтАЩcom and he held up a thumb for silence as he thought
aloud. тАЬJulas DтАЩfif skips offworld rotation because heтАЩs loyal to his First and the
Bureau. Slon MтАЩlay refuses reassignment after two local yearsтАЩ duty downwell
because heтАЩs obsessed with finding humans. The techs and managers we interviewed
are all on extended tours. They seem nervous.тАЭ

тАЬI see no connections, Sula,тАЭ Dor said. тАЬI probed them.тАЭ

тАЬDid you ask the right questions?тАЭ

тАЬPardon?тАЭ

тАЬDor, the enhancer-probe gives literal indicators, yes?тАЭ