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.Page 69 Inset into the wall, perhaps a meter from the nominal floor, was a massive.Something.It shone with a brownish-gold luster, undeniably metallic.It was symmetrical, a generallytriangular shape with rounded sides and smaller, rounded-sided triangles at each corner.Across itssurface, in curved sequences like waves, mysterious black and silver symbols marched in organizedranks.Ariel had stopped with the object just filling its field of view.This target lay entirely out of its searchparameters, and it was now waiting to be told what to do. Well, said A.J.to the empty air around him. That ssomething you don t see every day. Chapter 15 And Seig Heil to you too! A.J.snapped. Cut it out, Colonel Ken Hathaway said tiredly. First, I m not the one slamming the lid down.Second,it s a perfectly reasonable response from the government s point of view. You can t keep me from calling out! This was my project.You can keep the data, but you can t justshut me in! We can, and we will, A.J.I know it s grating on your free spirit, but you d better deal with it.Or do wehave to take away all your toys just to make sure? A.J.got himself under control with difficulty.Ken Hathaway was one of the main driving forces behindNike , and A.J.had worked with him for months now.He knew that the Air Force colonel wasn t reallythe problem.The truth was, A.J.liked the man.The whole situation still rankled, however. No.Okay.Sorry.But send it up the line to whoever cameup with this idea we should be broadcasting this worldwide, not sealing it up tighter than a bank vault! No, I won t pass it up the line, and yes, we should, at least for the sake of your funders and mine.Likeit or not, there s still politics to consider, and that includes things like national security.What if this turnsout to be an alien military installation intact enough for us to learn something from it? Can you tell methere s a single country on earth that wouldn t want that for itself at first? Reluctantly, A.J.shook his head. No, I guess not. I guess not either.And speaking as a soldier, I damn well do agree with the idea that if anyone s goingto get the first shot at it, it s going to be my country. I m not into patriotism.Buncha tribal instincts. The colonel rolled his eyes, the extra white making them contrast even more with his very dark skin. A.J., that s just the kind of attitude you don t want to express around the wrong people.Me, I don tcare what you think, as long as you re not actively working against our nation.But some of the more rigidtypes have no sense of humor on that subject.Trust me, they don t. He flicked the display to another page. Now, they don t want to shut us down.In fact, it s now topPage 70 priority to find out whatever we can.So, if you ll promise me not some faceless guys out there, but me that you won t try to sleaze around the security, you can have your connection back and return towork.Your Faeries are the only things on-site, and we obviously won t be getting anything else there forquite some time to come.So you are set to remain the top-billed star of this particular show, and I d likeyou to keep that billing. A.J.gave Hathaway a sour look.Despite only knowing A.J.for a few months, the blocky, solidly-builtastronaut apparently had read him very well.A promise to some disembodied abstraction like thegovernment that was trying to stifle the discovery would mean relatively little to A.J., but a direct promiseto someone who knew and trusted him, that was something A.J.would never break if he could possiblyavoid it. You sneaky.Fine.Fine, I promise, I won t smuggle messages out, and I ll keep your silence as longas you say.No one else can run the Faeries like me, and there s no way I m going to let someone elsetry.Dammit. Hathaway smiled. Good enough.Look, A.J., I m sorry.But remember we all want Nike and Ares tohave their shots.If you pull some stupid crusading stunt, all of us could get screwed. A.J.nodded unwillingly. Yeah.Okay, you can trust me.I won t mess things up for your people ormine.Just let me back at the Faeries, okay? In a shot. Hathaway picked up the phone and called the MPs. Mr.Baker is cleared to return to workimmediately.Aside from the standard comm shutdown, he s got priority on everyone else.Anything heneeds, make sure he gets. After he hung up, A.J.demanded: What about people who are expecting me to call? I mean, none ofmy friends would possibly believe I m not going to call em and fill them in. I have no doubt that you ll be given a chance to call them soon with some really clear guidelines onwhat to say, and a script if necessary. Ugh.You think? I d bet on it.Until they decide to release this, they ll be making sure no one can give it away.If youneed to work with people, they ll find a way to bring them here and under the umbrella of secrecy. Aaaaugh.Well, hell with it, I ll go deal with my machines.They make sense and keep no secrets fromme.You guys realize how lucky you are? I only told your people first because it was on your nickel.Ifyou hadn t pulled the lid down right away, I d have told half a dozen people by now [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.Page 69 Inset into the wall, perhaps a meter from the nominal floor, was a massive.Something.It shone with a brownish-gold luster, undeniably metallic.It was symmetrical, a generallytriangular shape with rounded sides and smaller, rounded-sided triangles at each corner.Across itssurface, in curved sequences like waves, mysterious black and silver symbols marched in organizedranks.Ariel had stopped with the object just filling its field of view.This target lay entirely out of its searchparameters, and it was now waiting to be told what to do. Well, said A.J.to the empty air around him. That ssomething you don t see every day. Chapter 15 And Seig Heil to you too! A.J.snapped. Cut it out, Colonel Ken Hathaway said tiredly. First, I m not the one slamming the lid down.Second,it s a perfectly reasonable response from the government s point of view. You can t keep me from calling out! This was my project.You can keep the data, but you can t justshut me in! We can, and we will, A.J.I know it s grating on your free spirit, but you d better deal with it.Or do wehave to take away all your toys just to make sure? A.J.got himself under control with difficulty.Ken Hathaway was one of the main driving forces behindNike , and A.J.had worked with him for months now.He knew that the Air Force colonel wasn t reallythe problem.The truth was, A.J.liked the man.The whole situation still rankled, however. No.Okay.Sorry.But send it up the line to whoever cameup with this idea we should be broadcasting this worldwide, not sealing it up tighter than a bank vault! No, I won t pass it up the line, and yes, we should, at least for the sake of your funders and mine.Likeit or not, there s still politics to consider, and that includes things like national security.What if this turnsout to be an alien military installation intact enough for us to learn something from it? Can you tell methere s a single country on earth that wouldn t want that for itself at first? Reluctantly, A.J.shook his head. No, I guess not. I guess not either.And speaking as a soldier, I damn well do agree with the idea that if anyone s goingto get the first shot at it, it s going to be my country. I m not into patriotism.Buncha tribal instincts. The colonel rolled his eyes, the extra white making them contrast even more with his very dark skin. A.J., that s just the kind of attitude you don t want to express around the wrong people.Me, I don tcare what you think, as long as you re not actively working against our nation.But some of the more rigidtypes have no sense of humor on that subject.Trust me, they don t. He flicked the display to another page. Now, they don t want to shut us down.In fact, it s now topPage 70 priority to find out whatever we can.So, if you ll promise me not some faceless guys out there, but me that you won t try to sleaze around the security, you can have your connection back and return towork.Your Faeries are the only things on-site, and we obviously won t be getting anything else there forquite some time to come.So you are set to remain the top-billed star of this particular show, and I d likeyou to keep that billing. A.J.gave Hathaway a sour look.Despite only knowing A.J.for a few months, the blocky, solidly-builtastronaut apparently had read him very well.A promise to some disembodied abstraction like thegovernment that was trying to stifle the discovery would mean relatively little to A.J., but a direct promiseto someone who knew and trusted him, that was something A.J.would never break if he could possiblyavoid it. You sneaky.Fine.Fine, I promise, I won t smuggle messages out, and I ll keep your silence as longas you say.No one else can run the Faeries like me, and there s no way I m going to let someone elsetry.Dammit. Hathaway smiled. Good enough.Look, A.J., I m sorry.But remember we all want Nike and Ares tohave their shots.If you pull some stupid crusading stunt, all of us could get screwed. A.J.nodded unwillingly. Yeah.Okay, you can trust me.I won t mess things up for your people ormine.Just let me back at the Faeries, okay? In a shot. Hathaway picked up the phone and called the MPs. Mr.Baker is cleared to return to workimmediately.Aside from the standard comm shutdown, he s got priority on everyone else.Anything heneeds, make sure he gets. After he hung up, A.J.demanded: What about people who are expecting me to call? I mean, none ofmy friends would possibly believe I m not going to call em and fill them in. I have no doubt that you ll be given a chance to call them soon with some really clear guidelines onwhat to say, and a script if necessary. Ugh.You think? I d bet on it.Until they decide to release this, they ll be making sure no one can give it away.If youneed to work with people, they ll find a way to bring them here and under the umbrella of secrecy. Aaaaugh.Well, hell with it, I ll go deal with my machines.They make sense and keep no secrets fromme.You guys realize how lucky you are? I only told your people first because it was on your nickel.Ifyou hadn t pulled the lid down right away, I d have told half a dozen people by now [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]