KARR's 'lair,' a derelict building he had painstakingly taken ownernship of, reinforced, and outfitted with repair equipment. It had taken him months to engineer a false identity with enough false credentials to open an non-interest-bearing account beyond the reach of the US government. He had then played the stock market like a piano and accrued the funds necessary to acquire this city block.
It was a building perfect for his purposes, and difficult to believe it had fallen by the wayside. In reality, it had not; he had undermined the corporation that owned it and then pounced upon like a peregrine falcon. With a vehicle-sized freight elevator that exited on a roof with a helipad, the only weakness of his lair was it's girth. It was twenty-five stories and he felt the travel time of the elevator was a tactical weakness. An acceptable price to pay, however, for the level of electromagnetic shielding the four garage stories afforded.
The painstaking effort had been the construction of the repair facility at on the bottom level of the garage. With the hydraulic lifts, spare parts, array of robotic arms, comprehensive selection of power tools, electronics repair equipment, he had spent a great deal of time getting that first robotic arm established.
Tricking the delivery man was the easiest part. The difficulty was in that he had to acquire a small robotic arm with a battery installed, which he had then charged with an interstitial pulse over a day and manipulated free of it's packaging. With the small arm he was able to install the large, floor-mounted arm and the remaining installations were straightforward...
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It was a building perfect for his purposes, and difficult to believe it had fallen by the wayside. In reality, it had not; he had undermined the corporation that owned it and then pounced upon like a peregrine falcon. With a vehicle-sized freight elevator that exited on a roof with a helipad, the only weakness of his lair was it's girth. It was twenty-five stories and he felt the travel time of the elevator was a tactical weakness. An acceptable price to pay, however, for the level of electromagnetic shielding the four garage stories afforded.
The painstaking effort had been the construction of the repair facility at on the bottom level of the garage. With the hydraulic lifts, spare parts, array of robotic arms, comprehensive selection of power tools, electronics repair equipment, he had spent a great deal of time getting that first robotic arm established.
Tricking the delivery man was the easiest part. The difficulty was in that he had to acquire a small robotic arm with a battery installed, which he had then charged with an interstitial pulse over a day and manipulated free of it's packaging. With the small arm he was able to install the large, floor-mounted arm and the remaining installations were straightforward...