“What went wrong?” Singh asked.
Philaskut turned to answer the question from this new direction. “We don’t know precisely. That’s why we’ve been conducting our investigation. We think it may have been caused by a cosmic ray collision. We thought we’d built sufficient shields against them. What we think happened is that two or more cosmic rays may have hit the same spot almost simultaneously, penetrating the defenses. The high energy rays struck this one crystal and knocked it slightly out of proportion.”
He shook his head. “Believe me, such an occurrence is so rare it couldn’t happen again in a million years.”
“Can you fix it?” Hawker asked. “Can David Green be restored?”
Philaskut cleared his throat. “You have to remember, it wasn’t the person who was damaged, but the complete record
