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[[Sir Jerrold Baxter-Morley, Q.C.|Baxter-Morley]] went route one. He kicked over a drum and barked, “clear”. | [[Sir Jerrold Baxter-Morley, Q.C.|Baxter-Morley]] went route one. He kicked over a drum and barked, “clear”. | ||
From nowhere: A kerfuffle behind a plaster wall to the right. The unit spun, caught offguard: panic: fumbling with | From nowhere: A kerfuffle behind a plaster wall to the right. The unit spun, caught offguard: panic: fumbling with safety catches, grappling with magazines. | ||
An ear-splitting BLAM: the plaster wall was gone. A heavy wad collapsed through it, lifeless onto the floor in front of them. | An ear-splitting BLAM: the plaster wall was gone. A heavy wad collapsed through it, lifeless onto the floor in front of them. | ||
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Algy cursed. “Jesus! [[Side letter]]!” | Algy cursed. “Jesus! [[Side letter]]!” | ||
Boone took his finger off the NAV trigger and holstered his CSA, still smoking from the muzzle. “Eyes peeled, ladies. ''Now'' we are clear.” | Boone took his finger off the [[NAV trigger]] and holstered his [[CSA]], still smoking from the muzzle. “Eyes peeled, ladies. ''Now'' we are clear.” | ||
Boone fixed A.J. with a hard stare. “All right, kid, in you go. Let’s throw a [[redline]] around the immediate area.” | Boone fixed [[A.J. Paul|A.J.]] with a hard stare. “All right, kid, in you go. Let’s throw a [[redline]] around the immediate area.” | ||
A.J. followed up with a static-mount diff-sensor. | A.J. followed up with a static-mount diff-sensor. The rookie unclipped the stabilisers and set the unit on the floor. He punched in the coordinates and it emitted a sheet of red light. | ||
''Okay, everyone hold still now.'' | ''Okay, everyone hold still now.'' | ||
The diff-sensor swept for semantic content. A.J. watched the display. The hourglass flipped. It flipped again. After a few moments it rendered: ''zeroes across the board''. | The diff-sensor swept for [[Semantic structure|semantic]] content. A.J. watched the display. The hourglass flipped. It flipped again. After a few moments it rendered: ''zeroes across the board''. | ||
“We’re clean, sir. No material alterations. The text-field is Delta-1 as we left it.” | “We’re clean, sir. No material alterations. The text-field is Delta-1 as we left it.” | ||
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Boone shot the rookie a quizzical look. “Why so?” | Boone shot the rookie a quizzical look. “Why so?” | ||
A.J. smiled. “This way I pick up all syntactically relevant amendments while filtering out the noise. I’m sure we would have caught anything that made a difference. Sir. The text-field is clean.” | A.J. smiled. “This way I pick up all syntactically relevant amendments while filtering out the [[Signal-to-noise ratio|noise]]. I’m sure we would have caught anything that made a difference. Sir. The text-field is clean.” | ||
“Run it again, Soldier, but this time ''include the noise''. Let’s have a gander at that formatting and punctuation delta.” | “Run it again, Soldier, but this time ''include the noise''. Let’s have a gander at that formatting and punctuation delta.” | ||