Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

years from the Sol system. I think we need to study someother halo objects also to get a better baseline.""It is fifteen days til the tangler beam illuminates a haloobject," Thom told them. "So what I propose is that we targetone of the impactors with the tangler beam, and see if there isany of this activity in them.""But you have already found activity in every large bodythat has crossed the path of the tangler beam have you not?"Heymon asked."That is correct.""Then it would be natural to assume there will be activityin the impactors also would it not?""Yes it would," Thom answered. "It would be significantif whatever is transferring this information has abandoned thebodies destined for destruction.""If we don't study a random halo object," the captain said,"we won't know if the difference is because they have beenabandoned or because they are halo objects. I pray we findthese entangled signals are a natural phenomenon and allbodies will have similar levels of activity.""I pray for the same outcome," Thom said, and steepledhis hands in front of him, "but we won't know until we makethe study.""It will take some time," Heymon said, "it's still a twosecond round trip to the point, the nearest halo object willtake over a second of slew time in the tangler. The nearestimpactor is several more seconds of slew time. My engines147