Well that certainly helped narrow down what this was all about. He'd certainly had several ideas before agreeing to the meeting, ideas that the computer in his head kept updating the odds of, and now one just took the lead by a long shot. Still, after being so rude as to digging into the man's true identity, he decided to play coy out of some attempt at politeness.
"That's most useful in the case of an invasion or the government finally turning on imPorts. The secrecy of the location could potentially make up for any flaws in its design, making it a better safe house than Helix Station." They were still talking hypotheticals, yes?
With the chicken freed from the tip of the knife, M held the piece out for the cat, while the other hand he wiped the knife off on the side of his coat.
"But." M looked back up from the cat to the man across the room, spinning the knife in his hand across his palm. "At the same time its secrecy can be used to only save a 'chosen' few. Only someone's friends for instance, or the highest bidder. Depending on who ran such a facility, it could be used as extortion; their life for a price they either can't afford or can't bear to."
He stopped the knife spin mid-rotation, and slipped it into a hidden pocket inside his coat. "Of course, secrecy by definition means that not everyone would be privy to such information, and to make such knowledge public would cost such a location its added security...depending on the form of attack. My concern would be simply the method of how someone would be granted the knowledge of such privileged information."
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"That's most useful in the case of an invasion or the government finally turning on imPorts. The secrecy of the location could potentially make up for any flaws in its design, making it a better safe house than Helix Station." They were still talking hypotheticals, yes?
With the chicken freed from the tip of the knife, M held the piece out for the cat, while the other hand he wiped the knife off on the side of his coat.
"But." M looked back up from the cat to the man across the room, spinning the knife in his hand across his palm. "At the same time its secrecy can be used to only save a 'chosen' few. Only someone's friends for instance, or the highest bidder. Depending on who ran such a facility, it could be used as extortion; their life for a price they either can't afford or can't bear to."
He stopped the knife spin mid-rotation, and slipped it into a hidden pocket inside his coat. "Of course, secrecy by definition means that not everyone would be privy to such information, and to make such knowledge public would cost such a location its added security...depending on the form of attack. My concern would be simply the method of how someone would be granted the knowledge of such privileged information."