A bullet hit right through him at the bottom left of his stomach. The ancient Romans had a shortsword and their troops were trained to stab this part of the body so that their enemy would die within 4 minutes while being incapacitated. Thanks to modern medicine, Hoegenakker would survive if he got help in time. The datapad had finally finished decrypting. He slowly picked it up breathing painfully, coughing blood.
The project was possible, but the Bretonians just didn’t have the resources to finish it and they didn’t want to share it with Liberty. There were orders from a Victor Steiner, part of the family practically running Bretonia who were known for being staunchly anti-Libertonian. The data was to be secured at a vault so that the project could be continued by Bretonian agents outside of Bretonia, who would gather their own resources to finish it. Except, there was a leak. The data was supposed to be beamed to Sprague wherein it would be transported to a distant SIS base in the independent worlds. It was not, so the project had clearly been leaked.