"If we take on Dragonstorm without these chips, we will be losing a major advantage we'll have over them. They are going to be sending orders and information primarily through the thought chips after we attack, and the chips will give us a direct line into every major order sent out. That's invaluable information."
"Yeah, but they won't do that if they know we have chips, and have been tracking us," pointed out PFC Reynolds.
"That's not Dragonstorm; if they wanted us dead, they would have done it by now." Shelton turned to Stern in particular. "I'm sorry, Stern, but I repeatedly warned all of you not to broadcast messages to every chip in the vicinity, and yet I can recall you doing it at least twice after that, even at Schutzhund. Because you did that, anyone could have picked up your signal, and used it to talk to you."