>Bob Page: Your appointment to FEMA should be finalized within

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>Bob Page: Your appointment to FEMA should be finalized within the week. I've already discussed the matter with the Senator.
>Walton Simons: I take it he was agreeable?
>Bob Page: He didn't really have a choice.
>Walton Simons: Has he been infected?
>Bob Page: Oh yes, most certainly. When I mentioned we could put him on the priority list for the Ambrosia vaccine, he was so willing it was almost pathetic.
>Walton Simons: This plague -- the rioting is intensifying to the point where we may not be able to contain it.
>Bob Page: Why contain it? Let it spill over into the schools and churches, let the bodies pile up in the streets. In the end, they'll beg us to save them.
>Walton Simons: I've received reports of armed attacks on shipments. There's not enough vaccine to go around, and the underclasses are starting to get desperate.
>Bob Page: Of course they're desperate. They can smell their deaths, and the sound they'll make rattling their cages will serve as a warning to the rest.
>Walton Simons: Mmm. I hope you're not underestimating the problem. The others may not go as quietly as you think -- intelligence indicates they're behind the problems in Paris.
>Bob Page: A bunch of pretentious old men playing at running the world. But the world left them behind long ago. We are the future.
>Walton Simons: We have other problems.
>Bob Page: UNATCO?
>Walton Simons: Formed by executive order after the terrorist strike on the Statue. I have someone in place though. I'm more concerned about Savage -- he's relocated to Vandenberg.
>Bob Page: Our biochem corpus is far in advance of theirs, as is our electronic sentience, and their... ethical inflexibility has allowed us to make progress in areas they refuse to consider.
>Walton Simons: The augmentation project?
>Bob Page: Among other things -- but I must admit that I've been somewhat disappointed with the performance of the primary unit.