Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

at full thrust.""Pink Dawn can't host that cherub," Kelvin repeated."What if they received updates?" Heymon asked. "Thomdidn't know how to build that equipment without new textstransmitted from home. As far as the outside world knows,WE don't have the technology to receive the signals to drivethat cherub."“And Pink Dawn has no fabricators,” Elmore added."So you still think that is the Pink Dawn?" Kelvin askedHeymon."I have signals from the Curitiba," Heymon repeated.“What if they are fake?” Kelvin asked. Someone couldjust as easily undermine your instruments as Thom’s, maybeeven easier since it is known technology.”“They are better protected also,” Elmore pointed out."It is not a warship,” Heymon said. “The Braziliansbelieve completely in the Kassikan and all the rest of Alan'shack. They're a scientific mission and a seedship. They intendto bring a thousand more settlers to the Brazilian colonyalready on Alan's World.""I thought it was called 61 Cygni Ae," Kelvin said, "Idon't think someone who did what he did should have theplanet named after him.""He said the natives called it Kassidor," Elmore chided.He probably knew '61 Cygni Ae' wasn't going to stick. TheBrazilians were following Alan's hack and calling it Kassidor,though they were spelling it differently, it sounded close274