Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

may not feel the need to be as diligent.”“Thank you colonel,” Kelvin said. She was the only onehe would ever trust to have security and military mattersfirmly enough in mind. If the ship was armed, he’d want heras his weapons officer. “Have we any evidence that theenemy vessel has been interacting with the dark matter in anyway?”“Heymon would be more on top of that than I am,” Glayetsaid. “He has Major McFerdie and Lieutenant Maplesassigned to that question I believe.”“Heymon?” Kelvin turned to him.“The bogie is using nothing in the electromagnetic band.They are not in contact with Sol on an electromagnetic bandeither. However, if they are using quantum entanglement tocommunicate, only Thom’s instruments would detect it.”“And he is not ready to probe them yet?” Kelvin asked.“No sir,” Heymon answered firmly.“Have they found out anything?”“The bogie has no synchrotron shadow,” Heymon said.Kelvin was about to ask what that means when Ava said,“So it can’t be a bussard.”“As far as we know?” Kelvin asked.“Unless we re-write the laws of physics,” Heymon said,“and we may have to re-write a lot of the laws of physics ifwe can’t find the bug in Thom’s instruments.”“I’d sooner believe there was something about hisinstrumentation or even our instrumentation that we don’t294