James Bond emerged from a storage room and straightened his clothes, looking gray-haired and weathered. He was now wearing the supervisor's red uniform, with a name tag on his chest reading—Thomas Wicken.
However, his appearance could not be changed back. What Nova had taken him to undergo earlier was semi-permanent cosmetic surgery. Restoring it was not really restoring it; it would have to be redone. But only this could get him past the layers of scans when entering the system.
It had to be said that the identity and appearance Nova had found for him were quite suitable, because Quatians could be seen almost everywhere here.
He had also given that supervisor a simple interrogation just now and learned roughly what was going on.
This was the uninhabited system designated T6652U7X8849L. Uninhabited systems generally had only numbers and no names. But after Kuat Drive Yards began constructing a military base here, they named it the Dawn Star System. The name corresponded to Dawn Star Planet from afar, making their enormous ambitions plain for all to see.
James Bond merely sneered at that, muttering to himself that it was a fool's dream before continuing with his operation.
The Thomas Wicken who had brought him here was not the dark broker who had negotiated with him that day, but one of his lower-level agents. He colluded with the dark broker, looking for opportunities to make money within his authority. They cooperated to reap huge profits, then split the proceeds.
And the dark broker had many agents like him.
So, in a sense, the man truly had connections everywhere and avenues in every direction.
For example, during the construction of the Dawn Star System, Thomas Wicken was responsible for procuring certain engineering components. At the same time, agents under the Duchy of Dawn