Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

Finally Heymon burst into the meeting saying, “Sir, wehave confirmed a possible bogey on our course." He turnedand pointed before he even got to his seat. “It is right there,”he had focused a cross-hair on it and made a single-point dotblink. “It is still three hundred million miles away but closingwith us at about fifteen miles per second. It will intercept usbefore we reach Sol.”“And it is also decelerating?” Kelvin asked.“Yes,” Heymon answered.“Then it can only be another starship returning from asimilar destination,” Elmore said. “There was an expeditionto 16 Cygni wasn’t there?”“It couldn’t be them,” Ava said. “It was launched acentury earlier and would have vastly different..."Kelvin had to butt in, that wasn't something to air in frontof the whole crew. "Excuse me, I think this is a matter for amoment's private discussion. If we could go into my officefor a minute." His private office began wherever he held thedoor open. It was the same view on either side of the wall, theview continued on the wall, but his senior officers steppedthru into a section of space toward Sol that was partitionedfrom the remainder so they could have privacy. As soon as heshut the door he said, "Sorry Colonel Bancour but we don'twant the remainder of the crew to hear that.""Why?" Ava asked. There was a table and chairs in here,they were all getting their personifications into them, feelingtheir way because they were invisible.258