Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

looked at his virtual paperwork again, thru the half-glasses hedecorated his personification with today. “We have thehonorable Major Thom Husband with us to make a report.”He noticed that Thom was careful to draw out every stepon the way to the podium. The only thing he allowed himselfwas a magic wand to project his facts and figures during thepresentation. He paused an uncomfortably long time beforebeginning. He started out with a technical discussion of hisexperiments. Kelvin watched to see who among his seniorpeople understood him and who didn't. Only Heymon,Elmore and Ava seemed to be following it. Quite a few ofHeymon's people were, Alan was also. Alan was trying toplay down his interest and understanding. A lot of theremaining crew were pretending to follow it, with DelosAlverez trying especially hard to look like he was not onlyfollowing, but grading it. In reality he could see Delos wasjust taking ques from Elmore.He did understand what Thom got to at the end. Heseemed to be saying that the information transfer he haddiscovered was controlling the impactors that were aimed atthe Angels. He wondered how many in the crew might bethinking the same thing. He didn't want to get into a generaldiscussion of that, but he needed to know what his seniorpeople thought about it. As soon as Thom was done with hisdirect presentation, he went to the podium and said, "This isall very interesting and sounds like it may well be significant,however, we still have a possible enemy warship on our flank262