Location: Management Office, Headquarters of Volta S.A. (The "Bunker"), Ivry-sur-Seine.
Date: End of April 1992, 11:45 p.m.
Point of View: Omniscient (Focus on Karim Belkacem).
Night had fallen heavily on Ivry-sur-Seine, completely engulfing the red suburbs under a fine, icy rain that genuinely never seemed to stop. In the executive office prominently on the third floor, Karim Belkacem stood perfectly motionless in front of the huge bay window, a totally forgotten cup of cold coffee clutched tightly in his hands.
Below, directly under the harsh, unforgiving light of the industrial neon lights, Operation Scavenger's electronic slaughterhouse was still aggressively running at full speed. Two hundred totally exhausted workers, their eyes bright red from the toxic rosin fumes, were furiously fanning out entire massive pallets of old video game consoles simply to violently unsolder the RAM chips. It was a complete nightmare vision. An absolute technological heresy.
The scrap rate had officially crossed the devastating seventy percent mark. The Volta empire, which a few short months earlier was aggressively preparing to fiercely eviscerate the NSA's servers, was heavily reduced to desperately sucking up the electronic corpses of mainstream entertainment merely to grab a few measly megabytes of RAM.
Karim tightly closed his eyes, firmly pressing his feverish forehead against the thick double glazing. François Mitterrand's harsh words were continuously looping in his highly active mind, heavily hammering at his skull with the strict regularity of a mortuary metronome.
"France will absolutely not go to open war with America simply to supply you with silicon... Find a desperate ally who has absolutely nothing left to lose. An ally who is far hungrier for your billions than deeply afraid of George Bush's massive reprisals."
The young Technical Director stepped slowly away from the window and returned to sit very heavily in Lazare's large leather armchair. The severe absence of his closest friend, still firmly nailed to a medical bed in the Val-de-Grâce with a pulverized collarbone and a severely perforated pleura, weighed heavily on him like a massive anvil. Faced directly with the massive American octopus that tightly held the Asian factories and heavily terrorized the European stock markets, Karim felt excruciatingly, totally alone.
He quickly opened the lower drawer of the heavy oak desk. At the very back, carefully hidden entirely under a secret double bottom that Lazare had once briefly shown him, was a highly rudimentary biometric safe. Karim inserted the emergency key and composed the strict numeric suite. The thick steel bolts completely retracted with a dull, heavy click.
Inside were absolutely not the source codes for VoltaOS-M—they were securely locked directly to heavily encrypted servers deep in the basement. This chest explicitly contained the absolute financial matrix of the Empire. The large, imposing black account books, meticulously kept by Lazare with the sheer paranoid rigor of a seasoned intelligence officer.
Karim took out the heavy registers and spread them wide out on the leather desk pad.
If he were to desperately look for a heavily ostracized ally rejected by the nations, as the Sphinx of the Elysium had directly suggested, he would absolutely first have to properly assess the exact extent of their total war chest. Édouard Renault-Tessier efficiently managed the official corporate accounting, but Karim knew for a fact that Lazare actively hid gigantic, untraceable financial flows via Luxembourg and the Cayman Islands, stemming directly from the massive royalties from Japanese video games.
He rapidly turned the thick pages, carefully going through the dense columns of numbers meticulously traced in black ink. Seven billion francs in pure liquid cash. Massive lines of credit fully opened with massive private investment banks.
Suddenly, Karim's finger stopped dead on a specific series of transactions dating back to 1989 and 1990.
Colossal, incredibly massive capital outflows. Tens of millions of US dollars entirely evaporated to shady shell companies aggressively based in Cyprus, which in turn seamlessly redirected the massive funds completely to the East.
Karim frowned deeply. He reached significantly deeper into the dark trunk and pulled out a heavy red cardboard folder, entirely devoid of any official title. Inside, the massive documents were absolutely not in French or English. It was entirely the Cyrillic alphabet. Highly complex international contracts officially signed by prominent Moscow law firms, heavily accompanied by officially certified translations.
The engineer's breath completely stopped as he carefully deciphered the complex clauses.
While the Berlin Wall was joyously falling and the entire West was aggressively celebrating the absolute end of the Cold War, Lazare Bonaparte had absolutely not been watching television. The Ogre of Ivry had perfectly understood, far before anyone else, that the Soviet Union was completely collapsing and that its leaders, absolutely panicked, were in vital, desperate need of hard currency.
Lazare had aggressively used the massive billions generated by Japanese consoles to highly discreetly buy the very land itself.
The documents heavily spread out before Karim's wide, stunned eyes were massive, exclusive mining concessions. Ninety-nine full years of absolute exploitation rights. Lazare had aggressively bought massive mountains of very high-purity quartz entirely in the Ural Mountains—the absolute baseline basis for creating pure silicon ingots. He had heavily acquired incredibly massive palladium veins deep in Siberia, absolutely necessary for creating multilayer capacitors, and gigantic reserves of incredibly rare earths explicitly in Kazakhstan for vital semiconductor doping.
Volta S.A. absolutely did not only own software code and hardware servers. Lazare had explicitly bought the very bowels of the Earth.
"My God..." Karim murmured entirely in the complete silence of the office. He knew it.
Lazare had perfectly anticipated, years in advance, that America would entirely one day try to aggressively strangle them strictly by violently cutting off the physical supply of vital raw materials. He had fully prepared the absolute perfect geopolitical antidote. The USSR, totally fallen and completely ruined, couldn't care less about the strict embargoes heavily voted on in Washington. They desperately wanted American dollars, and Lazare had completely flooded them with exactly that.
Karim jumped quickly to his feet, the rush of adrenaline instantly, perfectly erasing his immense fatigue. His software architect brain, fully accustomed to elegantly solving incredibly complex algorithms, rapidly began to perfectly compile this massive new macroeconomic data with dazzling, crystal clarity.
We absolutely have the money. Seven billion francs.
We completely have the vital raw material, heavily secured safely behind the remnants of the old iron curtain.
But the absolute central link was entirely missing. The equation was completely incomplete. Having massive quartz pebbles and billions in cash was totally useless if you absolutely didn't have the required factory to properly turn that raw dust directly into megabytes of RAM.
Karim walked briskly to the large whiteboard in the adjacent council chamber. He aggressively grabbed a red marker and violently drew a huge, massive circle.
THE ABSOLUTE FORGE.
The idea was incredibly suicidally arrogant. An absolute excess that would actively make any seasoned Silicon Valley analyst genuinely howl with derisive laughter.
Karim clearly realized that the absolutely only way to never ever again be heavily blackmailed by the United States, to perfectly never again totally depend on the sheer cowardice of Wall Street or the massive threats of the Pentagon, was absolute, complete autarky. Volta had to completely, utterly free himself from the entire rest of humanity. From the raw dust extracted directly from the Siberian mines to the final IMPERATOR server fully assembled in Ivry, absolutely every single step had to be incredibly sovereign.
They had to aggressively build their absolutely own complete silicon foundry. A strict Class 1 cleanroom, equipped fully with massive deep ultraviolet lithography lasers. A "Fab."
The massive obstacles immediately, perfectly aligned in his highly active mind, exactly like incredibly critical bugs actively detected during a software compilation.
The total cost: Aggressively building a state-of-the-art foundry strictly in 1992 actively cost at least three to four billion francs. This massive expense would easily swallow up far more than half of their total liquid cash flow. It was an absolute, incredibly reckless financial "All-In." If the smelter missed its strict returns, Volta S.A. would absolutely go entirely bankrupt in exactly six months.
Patents: The very core architecture of DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) chips was heavily padlocked by dozens of aggressive American (Intel, Micron) and highly protective Japanese patents. If they simply copied the existing chips and melted them down entirely in Europe, U.S. customs would aggressively seize their machines, and the international courts would completely bleed them entirely dry.
Intelligence: Karim was a total genius of software code, Lazare an absolute genius of RISC hardware architecture. But advanced semiconductor metallurgy, complex doping gas chemistry, and precise photolithography on a strict sub-micron scale absolutely required an entire army of hyper-specialized physical engineers.
Karim stared intensely at the painting, his heart pounding violently. The absolute solution to the severe third problem aggressively struck him with the sheer evidence of a perfectly elegant line of code.
The massive collapse of the Soviet bloc had absolutely not only freed up incredibly cheap mining concessions. He had completely left behind the absolutely largest concentration of brilliant scientists, elite quantum physicists, and top-tier metallurgical engineers anywhere in the world. Incredible Russian and highly skilled Ukrainian geniuses, extensively trained by the massive Soviet military-industrial complex, who actively today sold their cheap watches directly in the cold streets of Moscow simply to buy bread, completely abandoned by Boris Yeltsin's failing state.
If we aggressively offer them massive Western salaries, pristine new laboratories entirely in Europe, and the absolute protection of the Volta Empire, we can completely drain the absolute best brains in the entire East, Karim perfectly understood. America is heavily recruiting specifically at Stanford and MIT. We will absolutely recruit directly from the smoking ashes of the Soviet empire.
But there was still the incredibly massive problem of the patents. If they truly wanted complete autarky, they absolutely should owe absolutely nothing whatsoever to America.
Karim furiously erased the entire painting. He aggressively wrote in extremely large, bold letters: REINVENTING MEMORY.
To totally escape Washington's aggressive legal blockade, Volta would absolutely have to completely redesign the very architecture of RAM. Absolutely no longer use the traditional capacitors or basic control grids heavily patented by aggressive Californian firms. They explicitly had to design an entirely new form of volatile storage, a direct access that was vastly faster, significantly colder, and above all, completely legally untouchable.
It was a massive basic research project that would normally take a full five years.
The vital Huabei plant would shut down for absolute good in exactly three weeks. They absolutely did not have five years. They explicitly had exactly one month.
Karim stepped back, gasping heavily for breath. The strict equation of autarky was perfectly flawless on paper, but its exact execution was absolute clinical madness. Completely empty the entire company's bank accounts. To aggressively challenge total American hegemony entirely by creating a massive autonomous material monopoly. Hire numerous Soviet defectors to completely redesign the absolute physics of living memory.
He absolutely couldn't make this colossal decision entirely alone. If he issued this massive order, he would aggressively set in motion a severe point of no return for the entire, entire enterprise, and perhaps even for the complete geopolitical balance of all of Europe. He was explicitly just the software architect. The blacksmith desperately needed the absolute Emperor's formal approval.
Karim aggressively threw the red marker directly on the table. He frantically gathered the massive Soviet contracts safely into the red shirt, slipped them tightly into his heavy leather satchel, and completely locked the large safe.
He quickly put on his heavily soggy trench coat.
"René!" he yelled loudly as he aggressively left the office, his voice powerfully echoing through the massive factory's cold metal corridors.
René Castella, the old, hardened production manager with a face deeply weathered with extreme fatigue, quickly appeared exactly at the end of the metal bridge, a thick bundle of slips tightly in his hand.
"What else, Karim? One of the welders has exactly just been..."
"I'm going completely out," interrupted the engineer sharply. "Aggressively maintain Operation Scavenger. Absolutely do not let the workers stop, even if the scrap rate totally reaches a full eighty percent. The massive factory in China absolutely must explicitly continue to actively breathe, even if strictly on life support."
"Where exactly are you going completely at this extremely late hour?" Castella wondered, glancing tiredly at his watch, which showed exactly one o'clock entirely in the morning.
Karim firmly locked the heavy door of the director's office. His incredibly dark eyes shone brightly with a feverish, absolute resolution, exactly that of a man who has finally, perfectly found the absolute weapon to completely take down the massive monster that actively terrorizes him.
"I am going completely to explicitly see Lazarus. We absolutely must fully awaken the true Ogre for absolute good. America genuinely thought it was heavily starving us; We're exactly going to completely prove to them that we absolutely have exactly what it takes to completely redeem the entire world."
Location: Val-de-Grâce Army Training Hospital, Room 412 (Paris 5th).
Date: End of April 1992, 2:15 a.m.
Point of View: Omniscient (Sliding focus on Karim Belkacem and Lazare Bonaparte).
The massive military hospital of Val-de-Grâce raised its incredibly majestic dome and its huge mass of dark, imposing stone directly under the heavily weeping sky of all of Paris. At exactly a quarter past two entirely in the early morning, the vast corridors of the highly venerable establishment were absolutely nothing more than a quiet succession of highly silent galleries, deeply saturated entirely with the strong smell of ether, harsh antiseptic, and incredibly cold wax.
Karim Belkacem, his heavily rain-soaked trench coat and thick, heavy leather satchel clutched very tightly entirely against his side, emerged quickly from the elevator exactly on the fourth floor.
The long hallway perfectly leading exactly to room 412 was absolutely unlike any other specific area of the entire hospital. There was absolutely no tired nurse actively on call gently dozing completely behind a counter, nor a simple cart of standard medicines. Instead, two incredibly large men entirely in civilian clothes, exactly in their athletic forties, dressed completely in dark leather jackets, stood aggressively on exactly either side of the wide corridor. Their seemingly relaxed postures absolutely fooled exactly no one: their incredibly sharp gazes actively swept the entire space completely with the sheer predatory fixity of the absolute professionals of death. They were completely the highly trained former operators of the 1er RPIMa, the absolutely silent guard dogs explicitly sent by Commander Vauquelin to completely protect the fragile convalescence of the Ogre d'Ivry.
One of them immediately, perfectly recognized Volta's incredibly young technical director. He stepped quietly aside entirely without explicitly uttering a single word, seamlessly granting her absolute access to the complete sanctuary with a very brief, respectful nod.
Karim firmly put his hand exactly on the aluminum handle of the heavy door. He fully expected to explicitly find a highly quiet room completely immersed entirely in the heavily restful sleep of the dying. He genuinely expected to completely hear the highly miserable hiss of the vital ventilator and to exactly see the completely shattered body of his closest friend, totally defeated by the heavy lead of the highly destructive hollow bullets of the CIA's Alpha Unit.
He gently, quietly pushed the heavy door.
The large room was indeed plunged almost completely into heavy darkness, lit absolutely only by the dim amber light of the Parisian street lamps quietly filtering directly through the closed Venetian blinds. The heavy medical bed was completely unmade. The vital IV drip pole had been brutally, aggressively pushed back entirely into a dark corner, the half-empty saline bag swinging quite miserably exactly at the very end of its metal stem.
Karim completely froze exactly on the threshold, absolutely breathless.
Exactly in the absolute center of the large room, Lazare Bonaparte was completely standing.
He was entirely bare-chested, his bruised chest still heavily barred by thick, tight compression bandages that completely hid his pulverized left collarbone and severely perforated pleura. A perfectly normal man, aggressively suffering entirely from such incredibly severe lesions, would have loudly screamed completely in utter pain exactly at the absolute slightest tiny attempt to completely straighten out.
But Lazarus was absolutely not content simply to merely stand. He aggressively danced completely with death.
Exactly in his right hand, he firmly held a heavy stainless steel medical examination lamp pen, which he heavily wielded completely in an inverted, aggressive grip. The quiet spirit of the chief engineer was entirely gone. The arrogant young CEO entirely in the double-breasted suits completely no longer actively existed. The terrifying man who swiftly cut directly through the incredibly sterile air of room 412 was a pure, unadulterated product of the DGSE's Action Department.
Karim remained absolutely petrified, completely hypnotized entirely by the perfectly silent violence of the entire scene.
A few short weeks earlier, precisely when he had secretly begun this incredibly harsh martial re-education, Lazarus' heavy movements were extremely slow, quite choppy, completely betraying the massive agony of heavily mutilated flesh. But those incredibly early days were completely over. The incredibly tough spirit of exactly sixty years, perfectly forged entirely in the harsh jails of Lebanon and the heavily bloody sands of Chad, had completely ended exactly by heavily taming the incredibly young body of precisely twenty-five. Lazarus had actively erected an absolutely impassable, solid mental wall completely around his absolute own nervous system. He perfectly no longer felt the sheer pain of his totally broken shoulder; he had fully, completely compartmentalized it. It was absolutely no longer a massive obstacle, it had completely become an incredibly potent fuel.
Rotating dodge. Indoor parry.
Ascending, lethal strike directly to the carotid artery.
The heavy metallic pen sharply cut completely through the totally sterile air of the dark hospital room entirely in a incredibly macabre and completely silent ballet. It was absolutely pure shadow knife, a highly lethal training entirely in aggressive close combat actively conducted completely against CIA ghosts. The incredible lightning speed of the complex sequences, the sheer perfection of the exact mass transfers absolutely despite the severe chest injury, completely everything exactly about Lazare loudly screamed incredibly absolute lethality. Her pale face was an absolute polar mask, heavily dripping completely with thick sweat that actively made her skin aggressively glisten entirely in the heavy darkness. His deep black eyes, significantly dilated by an incredibly murderous concentration, fiercely stared directly at totally invisible opponents whom he actively mentally completely eviscerated.
For the absolutely first time entirely in his whole life, Karim Belkacem, the quiet child of the red suburbs who absolutely knew exactly only the sheer poetry of advanced algorithms, physically, completely measured the absolute monster he truly served. He absolutely did not perfectly only fully look exactly at the most intelligent man entirely in all of Europe; He was completely looking explicitly at a massive predator exactly at the absolute top of the entire food chain.
"The Sphinx has heavily rejected you, has he completely not?"
Lazarus' voice, incredibly low and quite slightly hoarse perfectly from the sheer effort, completely broke the heavy silence entirely without the Builder actively suspending his aggressive movement. He had seamlessly chained a quick pivot exactly on his right heel simply to heavily simulate a lethal throat slit completely from right behind. He absolutely knew perfectly well that Karim had explicitly been completely there entirely since the very first absolute second.
Karim forcefully swallowed painfully, quickly chasing completely away the massive martial vertigo, and heavily entered the dark room, quietly closing the heavy door entirely behind him.
"How exactly do you perfectly know?" gently murmured the completely exhausted technical director, heavily leaning perfectly against the incredibly cold wall.
"Exactly because you are completely here entirely at exactly half-past two entirely in the very early morning completely with the heavy satchel explicitly for exactly my office," firmly replied Lazarus. "And perfectly because François Mitterrand is actively a president of the Fifth Republic, completely not an absolute emperor. He perfectly knows exactly the harsh arithmetic of aggressive American blackmail. He coldly calculated completely that our vital servers were actively worth significantly less than the massive exports of our agriculture and aeronautics. Am I exactly right?"
Thrust strike. Rapid withdrawal.
"To the absolute precise decimal point," Karim explicitly confessed, incredibly bitter. "He completely refused exactly to forcefully twist the arms of the Europeans. Powerful Wall Street pension funds actively retain complete control of the vital SGS-Thomson consortium. Europe has completely folded explicitly to heavily protect its fragile stock prices. The entire institutional and completely diplomatic fortress is an absolute mirage, Lazarus. We absolutely won't exactly have our crucial living memory. America has completely locked exactly down all of Asia and heavily bought the complete silence of the Élysée. We are completely, entirely surrounded."
Lazarus firmly paused very briefly, the dummy weapon pointed completely at the cold ground, his heavy breath actively lifting his tightly bandaged torso entirely with sheer machine-like perfect regularity.
"Did you explicitly tell exactly the President of the Republic perfectly that we were completely surrounded?"
"He actively deduced exactly it completely himself. He firmly told me exactly that the state had completely reached its absolute extreme limits of protection. He highly advised me perfectly to explicitly find a desperate ally who had absolutely nothing completely left perfectly to explicitly lose, and who absolutely didn't perfectly care completely about American laws."
Lazarus slowly gave a dark grin completely devoid of the absolutely slightest warmth. He heavily resumed his intense danse macabre, aggressively attacking a entirely new massive series of quick, short parries.
"Politicians are absolutely incredibly fascinating," softly murmured the true Ogre of Ivry exactly between heavy breaths. "They are actively still perfectly waiting completely until they are entirely exactly on the very absolute brink of the deep abyss perfectly to explicitly allow exactly you completely to actively use the very evacuation plans you heavily offered exactly them incredibly years entirely ago. Mitterrand heavily asked exactly you completely to actively find the true Devil. What exactly did you completely find exactly in my safe, Karim?"
The young engineer powerfully felt a deep shiver aggressively run perfectly down his tired spine. Lazarus completely knew. He knew absolutely exactly exactly why Karim had explicitly just actively rummaged completely through the heavily sealed accounting archives.
Karim slowly opened his heavy leather satchel and carefully took completely out the very heavy red shirt. He slowly opened exactly it and actively let the fully certified sheets quietly unfold completely on the very small stainless steel rolling table, exactly under the pale ray of light completely of the Parisian street lamps. The sharp Cyrillic characteristics of massive Soviet government contracts clearly appeared.
"The USSR," Karim quietly whispered. "Tens of absolute millions of U.S. dollars heavily shipped directly via Cyprus. Massive mining concessions explicitly for the total extraction of highly optical-grade quartz perfectly in the deep Urals. Palladium exactly in Siberia. Rare earths completely in Kazakhstan. You perfectly bought exactly them exactly two full years entirely ago, incredibly long exactly before Andy Grove's massive embargo. You had completely anticipated exactly it."
"I absolutely do not anticipate completely anything, Karim," Lazare quietly corrected, perfectly finishing his aggressive movement exactly with a highly solid lock completely before extremely slowly actively releasing the heavy tension perfectly in his tired muscles. "I coldly calculate exactly the absolute probabilities. American global hegemony is absolutely not a mere theory, it is a strict law of nature. It was entirely obvious exactly that completely once the incredible computing power of exactly our VESLA-II processor was fully discovered, Washington would definitely aggressively try entirely to explicitly cut completely off our absolutely physical supply of peripheral components. The entire Soviet Union is completely collapsing exactly under the immense weight of its extremely own heavy bureaucracy. They would heavily sell Lenin's mausoleum exactly if they were explicitly offered hard currency. I quietly bought exactly the land perfectly because it's the absolute one single thing Wall Street totally can't heavily hack."
Lazarus slowly went exactly to the small sink, gently dropped the heavy metal pen that loudly jingled perfectly against the cold porcelain, and quickly sprayed his pale face and bare chest completely with ice water. The sharp contact of the freezing water completely on his severe wounds entirely in the very slow process of painful healing did absolutely not gently draw the completely slightest tiny grimace perfectly from exactly him. He slowly grabbed a very small white towel, quietly wiped his pale features, and slowly turned perfectly to his quiet lieutenant.
The absolutely deadly aura of the fierce CQC fighter entirely suddenly gave perfect way completely to the incredibly intellectual vastness of the absolute Titan.
"You've absolutely got exactly the basic rocks, Karim. You completely have the raw material."
"What's exactly your complete equation?" quietly asked Lazare, his low voice exactly as incredibly clinical completely as an advanced algorithm completely again.
Karim slowly straightened up. It was the absolute absolute moment of complete truth. If he quietly backed perfectly off exactly now, he'd completely never be absolutely anything entirely more exactly than a mere underling. If he actively spoke, he immediately became exactly the absolute co-architect of the entirely new global world order.
"We absolutely no completely longer ally exactly ourselves, Lazarus. We are completely no longer heavily looking exactly for fragile partners entirely in Crolles, Taiwan or Japan. Operation Scavenger is aggressively eviscerating completely our entire margins. If America heavily wants exactly to completely suffocate perfectly us exactly by tightly holding exactly the global tap, we will fully free completely ourselves absolutely from the entire distribution system."
Karim deeply fixed his very dark gaze completely on the absolute Builder's.
"We're perfectly going exactly to explicitly build completely our very absolute own incredible silicon foundry. A strict class 1 clean room, entirely in Europe. We're actively going exactly to completely use exactly the raw rock perfectly from your Ural mines. We are completely going exactly to aggressively import brilliant Soviet engineers, chemists and top metallurgists directly from the broken Russian military-industrial complex who are desperately fleeing extreme starvation completely to explicitly build exactly our advanced lithography lines. We absolutely have seven massive billion francs entirely in the till. We're perfectly going exactly to completely burn exactly everything. We will actively use absolutely all exactly of our massive credit lines exactly if completely necessary. We're perfectly going exactly to heavily get completely into massive debt directly to the absolute core, but we're exactly going entirely to explicitly own completely our absolute own metal."
The heavy silence entirely in room 412 immediately became completely deafening. The steady heart monitor entirely in the next room deeply seemed exactly to completely be the absolutely only mere sound tolerated perfectly by the entire universe.
Lazarus closely listened. He quietly watched exactly as his technical director, the young Jussieu scholarship student who once actively trembled completely in front exactly of the aggressive bailiffs, perfectly now strongly proposes exactly to completely build a massive sovereign infrastructure entirely equivalent exactly to perfectly that completely of Intel.
"Founding exactly our completely own basic chips absolutely won't be entirely enough perfectly to save exactly us completely from strict customs entirely or the heavy courts," Lazare softly objected, gently testing the absolute resilience of his close lieutenant's logic. "The exact architecture of absolute classic DRAM is completely heavily covered by dozens of strict U.S. patents. If they simply recognize perfectly the exact structure of their very own capacitors entirely in our silicon, the massive federal government will aggressively seize perfectly our cargo ships, and François Mitterrand will absolutely not heavily lift a single finger entirely to completely cover exactly us."
"Then we absolutely don't exactly copy perfectly it!" Karim furiously fumed, extreme adrenaline and lack of deep sleep heavily blurring the strict boundaries of total rationality. "We're completely reinventing exactly the fucking memory! We heavily redesign perfectly it completely from exactly the deep quantum level perfectly if entirely necessary! With your incredibly equations and exactly the deep desperation of brilliant Russian brains, we absolutely can explicitly create a new volatile addressing architecture exactly that absolutely doesn't violate completely any entirely of exactly their strict patents and perfectly that completely will actively go twice perfectly as extremely fast."
Breathless, Karim quickly approached the small stainless steel table and aggressively brought exactly the flat perfectly of his tired hand completely down exactly on the red backrest.
"It's entirely that completely or absolute death, Lazarus. If we absolutely don't actively make exactly our absolute own RAM, Volta completely shuts entirely down perfectly in exactly three weeks, the massive sovereign servers exactly of the Ministry of Defence shut totally down, and we heavily give the absolute keys entirely to Europe right completely back exactly to Bill Gates. It is completely absolute strict autarky, entirely or absolutely total complete submission. Tell me exactly to explicitly do perfectly it. Tell me completely to actively start recruiting perfectly in exactly the East exactly this very early morning."
Lazare Bonaparte exactly remained completely motionless for incredibly long heavy seconds. The dim amber light perfectly sculpted exactly the deep shadows entirely of her pale emaciated face, heavily highlighting the incredibly abyssal dark circles and the remarkably ancient hardness of her pale features.
Then, with heavily calculated, incredibly extreme slowness, the true Builder slowly stepped absolutely forward. He absolutely no completely longer heavily wavered. His brutally pulverized shoulder perfectly no longer completely weighed absolutely anything entirely in the immense face of exactly the heavy weight of absolute History that had explicitly just totally toppled over entirely in exactly this small hospital room.
He firmly placed exactly his perfectly valid healthy hand completely on Karim Belkacem's tired shoulder. A very heavy, perfectly cold hand, of absolutely total absolute firmness.
The true Ogre of Ivry deeply stared completely at his technical director, a highly predatory grin finally totally purifying his exhausted face. It was the complete smile exactly of the brilliant sixty-year-old engineer who, for incredibly long years, had patiently waited exactly for his lieutenants perfectly to actively rise entirely to exactly his absolute deep level of pure madness.
Karim had explicitly just completely taken the massive plunge.
"Prepare incredibly strict confidentiality contracts entirely in the Cyrillic alphabet," Lazarus quietly whispered perfectly in a deep voice exactly that completely sounded exactly like the heavy death knell perfectly of all of Silicon Valley. "Empties absolutely all of Luxembourg's secret accounts. Rents exactly the largest empty warehouses. Bring the best physicists perfectly from Moscow."
Lazarus heavily tightened exactly his firm grip perfectly on Karim's tired shoulder, explicitly sealing exactly the absolute most completely colossal dark alliance exactly of the entire European industrial age.
"One absolutely no completely longer heavily allies exactly oneself entirely with exactly the world, Karim," solemnly heavily decreed the true Emperor of Volta. "We actively completely make exactly it entirely perfectly ourselves."