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Chapter 3 — Combat Archaeologist

Manny Monsoon smoothly continued, saying with a smiling flash of white teeth, “Tell me about how you came to be combat archeologist?”

“I was inspired by Dimitri Petrov,” I said, the lie rolling off my lips with ease.

“Ah, an inspirational figure indeed,” Manny said. “I only wish he was alive. He would be a delight to interview. Tell us more about it?”

“I spent a good portion of my teenage years studying everything I could about the field, from how dig sites were identified from GalNet to cloning and experience replication to portal technology. I avidly followed the combat archeologist feeds from the Celebrity Service, like Petrov, Fellows, and Bastion, to name a few.”

“But,” I said, “interest isn’t enough to get into the field. You have to have a lot of BUICs”—I made sure that I spelled out the acronym rather than using the slang “bukes.”

Manny nodded and said, “No, getting started as a combat archeologist isn’t cheap. Many people see it as high risk with potentially high reward, as you’ve amply demonstrated.”

I nodded in return. “Yes, that’s right, and I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve been lucky. I found a not-well-publicized public program run by the NorthAm government to promote combat archeology. But it wasn’t a handout, more of a seed loan. With government backing, I was able to attract investors and put together the resources for one dig, including hiring a clone tech, a DMC AI.”

“Could you tell us how you secured such a large seed loan? I’m sure any would-be combat archeologists would be interested.”

“Honestly,” I said. “It can be all be reduced to government desperation.”

“Because Lathe has hidden—still hides technological wonders in caches only accessible by portal,” Manny said, making it a statement, not a question. “But who can argue with an ascendant AI’s largesse?”

“Not me,” I said. “So, fortunately, with the help of my DMC—my Dig Management Control AI Pachinko, I was able to filter and identify a good candidate dig site from the notices coming from GalNet in ten days. Then it was only a matter of deploying a portal probe, and after an analysis of the results gathered by the PP, then expressing the portal and stepping through.”

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