M'alax thinks back over his time working as a Watcher for the Panoptica, and how long it took for police cutters to respond whenever someone needed them to come. He knew they didn't have long. You don't become an oppressive police state without the police doing some effective oppressing. But he gives a quick nod to the plan.

"A couple power cylinders would be useful if we plan on keeping the cutter."

He wondered if the phantoms were still lurking about. Or if the pilot he saw was still alive.

"Let's do it."