Silver opened the control panel of her sleeve and hesitantly started splicing plastic wires to her dead radio. She closed the lid of the service panel to help hold the fibers in place, then reached out and gently pocked the bare ends of the optic cables to the exposed ports of a transmodem. They slid in perfectly. Another triumph of Japanese standardization. She boosted power, activated a shield program, and tentatively attempted to access the data stream.