"I fired it myself last week," the President said, "so I know the Zaibatsu security didn’t booby-trap the bastard. Some of the Mech cartels will do that. Pick you up with frontier craft four thousand klicks out, shut down your weaponry, then put a delay chip in the wiring—you pull the trigger, chip vaporizes, nerve gas...It makes no difference. You pull that trigger in combat you’re dead anyway, ninety-nine percent. The Shapers we’re attacking have Armageddon stuff too. We gotta have anything they have. We gotta do anything they can do. That’s nuclear war, soldier; otherwise, we can’t talk together...Now, fire."