Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

against the crew coming to some of the same conclusions, buthe would look upon whatever this dark matter contained asmore of a new enemy than an act of God.But the captain came to the podium and said, "This is allvery interesting and sounds like it may well be significant,however, we still have a possible enemy warship on our flankand my senior officers and I need to continue our discussionof that situation."'But?' Thom thought, 'I just showed you they are not theenemy...' It did no good, the captain was calling all his directreports back to the private part of his cabin, includingHeymon and of course Ava.It was Warren Livgood, one of Heymon's men, who cameright to the point. "So this data suggests that these signals arebeing used to control the impactors that are taking out ourinstallations in the inner system?""That interpretation does fit the data," Thom answered."Does any other?" he asked."We don't know that these signals aren't generated on theimpactors," Pace Randerhoff, another lieutenant inMechanics said."I hardly see how that matters," Warren said."How do you mean?" Pace asked. Thom was very happyto let them continue the discussion between themselves."The key finding is really the fact that this computing, ifthat's what these state changes are, is happening on all thebodies but the impactors. From that alone we know two195