Thirty hours

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Diana claimed the antenna array within twenty minutes of arrival. Hale showed her the access panel on the roof via a hatch in the upstairs hallway and she went up with her equipment bag and didn't come back down for forty minutes. When she did she had snow in her hair and the focused inward expression she wore when something technical had exceeded her expectations. "It's better than he described," she told Francis quietly. "The shielding is military grade. Whoever built it knew exactly what they were defeating." She set her bag on the table and began unpacking. "I can run the final transfer to Webb from here without the emission signature that burned us in Fairbanks." "How long for the transfer." "Twenty minutes once I'm staged. I want another hour to verify the packet integrity first.

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