Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

10:51am Fri. Apr. 6, 2384“So you are telling me that Heymon has been covering upThom’s discoveries?” Kelvin asked Ava.“He doesn’t think of it as covering up. He’s saying theresults are meaningless when the instrumentation violatesaccepted theory.”“He could have let me know that much. Even if we don’tunderstand what it means correctly, we get the same kind ofreading from our veron store and Curitiba.”“Thom still thinks it’s the Pink Dawn,” Ava said, and thathe is entangling ideas in flesh minds.“That delusion won’t hurt him, let him continue to believethat. I don’t want the crew to dwell on the fact that we arenow on a military operation.”“Are we sure it’s the Curitiba?” she asked.“It’s the only thing the laws of physics allow.”She laughed, rather heartily. “We could all be in abasement in Scranton getting fed this starship-ride scenerythru a cable. Even now, even in Laurentia, they could find theprocessing power to run this expedition, so I don’t think theCuritiba is the only solution the laws of physics allow.”“Pretend you believe we are only one step removed frombase reality.”“I do, but that doesn’t mean I’m sure of it.”“What do you think it is?” he asked.319