Part One: Sundog Zones: Chapter Two Summary

Ryumin is patient while Lindsay recuperates. He patrols the Zaibatsu with a camera robot, always seeking the next story. Loud beeping signifies something and Lindsay offers to go out and have a closer look. Ryumin wires him for sound and video, and Lindsay confirms that pirates are towing a meteorite to the Sterilized Zone.

The Eighth Orbital Army sends a harpoon into the air and causes the crash of the airship. Lindsay counts eighteen dead. Two airship pirates arrive in Ultralights and Lindsay tells them that spyplanes killed their friends after they determined the habitat was endangered, and then offers them time at the Geisha Bank to get the yarite's attention. They give Lindsay the title "Secretary of State" in return.

Once at the Geisha Bank, he is taken carefully past the traps...