'Our satellite uplink operates through a network of no less than eighteen secure clearing orbital platforms, leased in random sequence.' Nyman was getting carried away with his own sales pitch. He seemed to have forgotten that neither Prescott nor myself were in the market for Psycha-Sec's services. 'No orbital is leased for more than twenty seconds at a time. Remote storage updates come in via needlecast, with no way to predict the transmission route.'