562 Expecting Guests

It wasn't long before the first sabotage attempts arrived, but they didn't hit Terminus in the manner that Max had expected they would.

The first attack was in the form of a highly sophisticated computer virus, embedded in a benign message from a returning customer.

Fortunately, they didn't drop the security measures for known clients so the attempt was caught and thwarted, with the broadcaster turned over to the observers.

That way nobody could accuse the humans of going vigilante over a minor slight to their sensibilities or of some sort of unusual punishment. It wasn't possible to prove a negative, and once a rival started running accusations against them, they wouldn't have the network to be able to win a social media war on Alliance networks.

On the other hand, this way they could drop subtle hints about who it was, and force them to defend themselves while the Alliance investigated.