“I can’t promise this will find sapient life,” Brad said with a grin, “but it will find a small fire in the central valley.”
“We can outfit an M-Class ship with a Nanocosm that will spew out enough of these to run an actual field test on the band,” Sally said.
Thorpe called Jocara and Kenred by Link. When they arrived, he explained the searchbot to them.
“I want you to run a field test,” he said. “Brad will install a Nanocosm programmed to run the test as you follow the protocol I’ll give you. You will run a relatively small-scale test. If this works, we’ll outfit the other M-Class ships and do a thorough job of it.”
Jocara took Armstrong to the designated start position, at the center of the band, between a pair of north and south spokes. Armstrong carried 400 search bots. Jocara head
