Tim poured
over the new data from the recent probe.
He was comparing it to current target the station was working on. He lit up a second hologram next to the one
they had been working on and looked up.
“Holy Shit!”
he exclaimed as he rotated the two around.
Sam looked
up “What are you so …” she hesitated and twisted around “Wow. Is that what I think it is?”
“Looks like
it.” Tim pondered. The two asteroids
were virtually identical.
“Ok, then
take a look at this.” Sam punched a video over to Tim. “Pay attention to the center of that circle.”
The video
image was the circle of gold pads the surveyor took in the last seconds of his
existence.
“That looks
like some kind of attachment point in the middle.” Tim examined it closely.
“Exactly.”
Sam looked back to the hologram. “So that leaves the question of just exactly
what these things are.”
The door to
the compartment opened and commander Dickerson floated in “I brought some
coffee and a couple of snack bars. Real
meals will be here shortly.” She looked
to the hologram “Is that what I think it is?”
“Sure is.”
Tim flicked on another layer of graduations “And you need to take a look at
this too.” He waved the commander over.
Kim floated
over to Tim’s console and handed him a bottle of coffee. She looked intently at the image on his
screen for a moment. “That is an
attachment point.”
“Obviously.”
Tim noted “Which means those are contact pads to interface to something
else. Leaving the question of ‘to
what?’.”
Beginning of Story
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Doing great Stanger. I wait and read it every two days.
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