“I’m just wondering if Penny might also have been slain by someone attempting to force me to abort the mission through sabotage or by other means. Mission Support was pretty damn quick to identify an abort maneuver, and not offering alternative tactics. What if that was part of their grand design? First Ty and Claire, then Penny, now they’re working on Jackie and Mike. There could be a person right in Mission Support that’s trying to stop us from landing.”
“What about Emma and Mary?” Brandon asked. “They could be in danger, too.”
Valerie considered that for a moment. “I doubt that we will have to worry about them, just yet. Typically, subversive groups usually target a single objective at a time. Hypothetically speaking, if they fail in one objective, then they move on to the next.