 Why is Lane flying over Newyork at the beginning?
Raging , Trooper Lane hovered three thousand feet above Tammany Square. The humming paragrav-paks embedded beneath his shoulder blades held him motionless above Newyork's three administrative towers. Two black paragrav-boats whirred along the translucent underside of Newyork's anti-missile force-shield, the Shell. The force-bomb "exploded"—swelled or inflated, really, but with the speed of a blast. It shaded the view from his window and re-entered the tower wall just below. The cannon trundled into the Square on its olive-drab, box-shaped caterpillar mounting and took up a position equidistant from the bases of the three towers. Lane's defense is a globe of energy similar to the one which protects Newyork from aerial attack."
 He cracked after being trapped after combat and needed to get out
 He intends to take over the city's government  His cybrain has malfunctioned and sent him to the city  He is on a mission assigned by Colonel Klett  He cracked after being trapped after combat and needed to get out