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The Third Ideal.

Blue Sun Facility. Location – classified.

The Blue Sun technicians swarmed around the machine, carrying out last minute checks before it was activated. A huge man stood over the work, watching the technicians carefully. Those who saw this man would automatically think he was dangerous – however, those who knew him needed no convincing that he was dangerous.

“Well?” He asked eventually. One of the techs scurried over to him, and cleared his throat nervously.

“We’ve almost finished calibrating the capture engine, sir. We should take another hour at the very most.”

The man nodded his head. “Good. I expect it ready by 9:00 hours at the latest.” He glared at the tech. “The final stage of Project Vengeance must not be delayed.”

The technician nodded differentially. “I-I understand, sir.”

Two men wearing blue gloves walked in. “Commander Talos?” One of them said.

Damon Talos, commander of Project Vengeance, slowly turned around. “Yes, Ketter?”

The operative cleared his throat formally. “Sir, we’re pretty sure we’ve found the current position of Serenity. It’s on a boarder world called Ballard.”

Talos frowned. “Ballard…?”

The second operative chipped in. “Yes sir. It’s basically a typical border world, but it was once used as a base by the forerunners of the Independents…”

“I know that Volk.” Talos snapped. “Several years ago, one of the members of the secondary phase of Project Vengeance was cornered there. I’m worried that Reynolds has worked out the significance of that rock.”

“As far as we’ve determined, commander, Serenity is just carrying out a routine stop – picking up supplies, looking for work and so on.” Ketter informed.

Talos considered this for a while, and then nodded decidedly. He turned to the technicians. “Very well – once the capture engine is finished, use it to capture the subject, and place them on Ballard.” He turned to Ketter and Vol