Chapter 8 - THE LEGAL WEAPON
Daniel’s service identity carried access to the Defense Ballistics Archive.
The archive stored firing signatures from elite units.
With Daniel’s credentials, Hale could assign any shot to any soldier.
A political assassination.
A civilian death.
An unauthorized strike.
The system could manufacture ballistic guilt.
Daniel refused to provide the final encryption phrase.
Nathan was created to bypass him.
But the archive also required a spouse-linked verification.
Me.
The desert range test captured my breathing, grip, and decision pattern.
Hale now possessed most of my profile.
The shot he wanted me to take was the last piece.
My refusal had denied him.
Then investigators discovered Tyler had recorded years of range sessions.
He sold humiliation footage to the program because emotional spikes improved biometric models.
The kicked bucket.
The insults.
The rifle pressed against my chest.
All designed to create measurable anger.
Tyler called it training.
The court called it coercive experimentation.
Then Blake revealed one final active range.
A naval platform in the Gulf.
May you like
Daniel’s prison ship.
Read Chapter 9 to see how the team reached the vessel.
