Traveling from Latveria to Germany and Austria was now quite easy. After concluding the state visit, the Emperor of Latveria and the Regent landed at the royal city airport aboard a heavy Assault Transport specially fitted with a data center and command center, immediately receiving as much as 2 TB of text, images, and video reports from Victoria Hand and Diana Lister. Victor von Doom browsed the data tablet in his hand, then took a Hellfire Knights Armored Personnel Carrier back to the castle ahead of them to handle official business and prepare for the next state visit. Hammurabi, meanwhile, entered the Pegasus Type Assault Transport and handed the monarch the intelligence that concerned the Emperor.
Although some of this intelligence overlapped with what Victoria Hand had provided, one of the Praetorian Guard's duties was to help the monarch see what lay beneath the surface. Hearing only one side was nowhere near enough. As Hammurabi watched the monarch review the data tablet, his brow furrowed tighter and tighter. He fully understood the monarch's feelings, because he had already read the intelligence contained within it. In the mere few days since travel had reopened, the Virus and Bacteria Management Department under the Gene Laboratory had discovered no fewer than three different viruses among inbound and outbound travelers, illegal immigrants, and international trade goods. Although the Intelligence Department had eradicated those infectious diseases at tremendous speed—meaning fusion weapons and flamethrowers—and the vaccines distributed among the public had worked, preventing those exposed to the viruses from becoming infected, every Pharmaceutical Company in the country had also undergone stringent inspections to ensure none had colluded with foreign intelligence agencies.
Victoria Hand had acted with great care, but the aftershocks of the Great Purge seemed far from over. Word had still gotten out that secret