Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

"This," Glayet unrolled a large poster. Ava scowled that itwasn't a projection, but Glayet wasn't really comfortable withtechnology. The poster was of an advanced bussard craft,tripartite, with point, collector and combustor modules with ahotter reactor and point-loaded instrumentation. "This is theCuritiba, the third of the three eternal youth ships Brasillaunched before the war.""It should still be on its way out to 61 Cygni," Heymonsaid. It isn't scheduled to arrive until 2455.""The possibility exists that it could have been ordered tointercept us.""They are several years out," Ava said. The whole crewprobably knew they launched in 2376.Heymon was poking a one-sided screen of his own. "Tointercept us here, that order had to be given when theTalstanian martyr's blew up the labs in Teresina." Everyoneagreed that was the act that triggered the war."Why would they do that?" Ava asked."We don't know, but the possibility exists and we havehad a spy on board," Kelvin said."We've had an unknown on board. We have no evidencethat the Curitiba or the Pink Dawn possesses that technology,"Ava said."If they did, would they publicize it?" Glayet asked."Something similar would have been in the scientificliterature.""Not much of today's science is published," she said in a259