Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

Book III.The Captain's War9:51am Mon Jan. 23, 2384Captain Kelvin M'Kintre reviewed the situation in hismind on the way to the meeting. The routine of getting hispersonification ready to present to others was comforting. Hestill thought of it as grooming, and he could think while hedid it.The most important thing on his mind was that they hadbeen redirected into combat. The attacks on the League’smain veron banks were coming from beyond any knownoutpost, so that meant the Kuiper Belt or beyond andGordon's Lamp was being redirected to decelerate into theKuiper Belt as far from Sol as they could park and try togather information on the weapons that were being usedagainst the Angel worlds.He knew many Angels were fleeing to smaller bodies, thesize of Gordon's Lamp, in hopes of escaping notice, but heknew billions would not escape in time from the killer cometsthat were already on the way from regions light-days out ofthe solar system. He knew that his was not a militaryexpedition. It was a prospecting expedition that had failed tofind exploitable resources, a biological expedition that had242