Administrator Charles 'Kithrak' Houston fell asleep at his desk with a clutter of papers and forms all around him, most of them half completed. He was awaken by the sound of his comm unit beeping. Wakeing up and he lifted his head from the desk blinking in a daze trying clear the cobwebs of sleep from his mind.
"Huh, did I fall asleep again?" Kithrak asked himself as he peeled one of the forms off his forehead. Takeing a quick look at the form he groaned and set it down. He has been extremely busy as of late, fileing all the paperwork needed for his department's annual report.
"I know I'm supposed to be a bureaucrat but cripes, this paperwork is almost as lethal as the clanners." Kithrak thought to himself. Killing the spirit for the former and latter killing the body.
The comm unit beeped again and he felt no strong inclination to answer it. "Probablly just another call from a new colonist asking how to become a bureaucrat for Omni-Admin." How they managed to get his number, he never knew.
If it was a new colonist, they were very patient as the unit beeped again. Sighing he clicked the comm unit on and.....nothing. Kithrak began to wonder if it was a prank call when he heard a single word spoken softly, barely audiable. ".....shadows....." and the call terminated.
The administrator stiffened as he recalled the codeword and knew what he must do. He pressed a blue button next to the comm unit and his Omni-Admin Guardian droid that stood guard outside his office walked in. "You have requested my presence master?"
Kithrak waves for his droid to approach his desk "Yes, I need you to sit in my chair and remain there until I return for you." The droid paused momentarily as it processed the odd command. It looked to Kithrak. "I will obey."
He got up from his seat and allowed the Guardian droid to take his place. Kneeling at a corner of the desk he felt around one of the simulated redwood panels until it clicked and a secreat compartment opened. He took out a briefcase and two saucer sized discs with metal prongs.
The droid offered no resistance or comment as the metal prongs from the first disc latch onto it. Kithrak gritted his teeth as he felt prongs from the second disc sink into the flesh of his right wrist. A hiss eminated from the second disc as it injected a painkiller and he felt the pain lessen immediately.
The administrator had to hurry, it was early in the morning and the new shift for security in the Omni-Admin HQ building haven't arrived yet. The first disc on his droid was set to mimic his own bio signature, makeing it look as if he was still asleep at his desk. The second one was a stealthing module, a third generation cloaking device developed by one of the black R&D projects he funded. For the next half hour Kithrak was effectively invisible in all known spectrums being surveillanced inside the Omni-Admin HQ. His biggest worry however wasn't being detected by the building's numerous sensors. When the morning shift for the security team arrived they will go to his office to see if he is alright having been there overnight. Of course, when they see that Administrator 'Kithrak' is a droid his deception would be unmasked.
By then it would be too late because he would be well on his way to the floating city of Jobe.
