It was never disclosed to Volkmer - because his handlers did not deem it to be operationally relevant - that his target was an engineer with a wife and young child. The Engineer was the architect of a DARPA project intended to disable hostile satellites using intense, targeted electromagnetic radiation in the form of a beam of laser light, which - if perfected - would technically violate a half dozen treaties of varying degrees of international importance. Hence the decision to make such an unusually violent example of the Engineer, who was from Duluth and known by sources to be driving from his research lab at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, to surprise his parents at their 50th wedding anniversary, in two days.
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