Oscar fell silent suddenly. He hadn’t really considered the options from the point of view of the authorities. The options for the authorities didn’t seem very promising. Greta Penninger—and her allies—had just seized an armored biological laboratory. The place was blast-resistant and riddled with underground catacombs. There were hundreds of highly photogenic rare species inside, forming a combination mobile food source and corps of potential hostages. The facility had its own water supply, its own power supply, even its own atmosphere. Financial threats and embargoes were meaningless, because the financial systems had already been ruined by netwar viruses.