How to push this shuttle into space?
10/22/2120.
SFS territory.
The car sped along a two-lane road lost in the taiga forests. A couple of days ago, Zadnikov had casually driven to the Air Force base in this same car. Then he had allowed himself a certain kind of prank, passing himself off to the "subject" as an insignificant driver. Almost a taxi driver, though, who knew a little about manipulating neurochips. It was all quite plausible - after all, it really was easy to instruct any more or less educated agent on this topic, on the topic of neurochips. Then, two days ago, as part of a joke, the hapless performer by the standards of a normal fighter was introduced as his, Zadnikov's, boss. In some ways it was nice to feel like a worthless, slacker driver, albeit a somewhat overgrown slacker. Now the object, that is, the man he had delivered back then, was sitting there in the shuttle. Zadnikov, who was now riding alone in his car, was leading a dispersed column that stretched for a couple of kilometers. The column consisted of two civilian trucks and a couple of garbage trucks.
The group was located in the trucks. Two vehicles were more reliable than one. The garbage trucks had armored bodies, including lightweight composites, on the inside - they were supposed to retreat in these, without exposing them to attack ahead of time and without exposing them at all.
Despite the secretive and sophisticated nature of Zadnikov's work, sooner or later there would come times when he had to lead his units into battle himself.
It was noteworthy that he, Zadnikov, had known the man who, judging by everything, was seated in the shuttle before. He knew from observation. He was an unremarkable SBS member. His last name was Zavirdyaev, but Zadnikov used to call him Zaperdyaev.
Now it was necessary, figuratively speaking, to give Zaperdyaev a friendly kick so that he would fly into orbit. A friendly kick looked like an attack on the auxiliary facilities of the rocket launch site. This would provoke an alarm and the shuttle armed with strategic charges would have to be urgently evacuated. Evacuated together with the pilot on duty. True, it was already unknown what name this Zavirdyaev now bore.