Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

“Yes sir,” Elmore said with a glance at Heymon, “but thetesting is difficult, it could be some time.”“We don’t know if we’ll find anything,” Heymon said. “Ihad to sign the requisition because he’s in my chain ofcommand. It’s a science project, it may or may not bear fruit.I want him to scan that ship as soon as he gets it working, butI don’t want data from devices with faulty physics. I thoughthe’d have about a fifty-fifty chance of ever getting the newsetup working, but I thought the potential benefits were worththe gamble of a few fabricator hours.”It was manly of Heymon to be ready to accept the blamefor Thom’s failure, but Kelvin wasn’t after someone to blame,he was after military intelligence. “I think you should see ifyou can get him some help,” Kelvin told Heymon. “See ifyou can spare a couple competent people to try and get himover the hump.”“Yes sir,” Heymon said, and brought up a one-sidedscreen to send off that note.“What do you think?” Kelvin asked Ava. In normal timeshe would have expected Ava to be right in the thick of this,back in the Cygni system she and Thom were inseparable, butafter turnover he knew they weren’t getting along and nowtheir relationship was all but over if she was frequentingcherubs in Alan’s world. They were still sharing a homehowever, so she should know something.“He’s plugging away in his lab. He says he managed toget a fourth order condensate contained, he has the largest296