Z-Heavy stared down at the smoldering ruin that was his hand-held comp-u-panel. He had barely had time to de-jack from the sub-frame before it tanked. Shutting down Krono-tek's exo-terran missile web would be near impossible now. Back-hackers. Why did it have to be back-hackers? Hash Dodec will pay for this betrayal, thought Z, If I ever find the location of her secret moon-base.