Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

uns on, but there's a lifetime of applications knowledge withthis gear, whatever user interface you have it hooked up to."Pete kept all his gear on a one-sided screen that he sized asneeded for whatever he was working with. He never tried topicture it as other than it was in the ship's mechanical innards."I suppose, and she could have sabotaged my gear to getwhat she wants instead of getting a divorce. She could havemade it look like there was no information transfer going onout here.""Or she could make it look like there was," Pete said."She was always trying to get me out of it.""Or she could be trapping you in grounds for divorce, yousaid she was just looking for an excuse.""I don't think she’s that devious," Thom said, butremembered her avatar on Biology Base and realized that shevery well could be. Now that he had determined that his workwas only her excuse for seeking a divorce, what Pete saidmade a lot more sense. She had to know results like thiswould entrap him. He was onto the biggest result of his life,an event far bigger than anything else in his life, maybe thebiggest discovery of the whole expedition. Let's face it, hewas onto something bigger than anything he had everimagined himself dealing with. He was a technician, not aresearcher, why did this all fall into place for him? What amagnificent entrapment it would be."I'm sorry but I never warmed up to her," Pete said. "Shewas always too cold, too controlled, too smooth."201