He grabbed the dagger and stuck it intothe desk. Then raised his finger.
“I want to say I don’t discountCaptain Anson’s point that we need to provide all information tothe Federation. But our communications can be sent back. Granted,ourcommanders and scientists might like to question us on this matter.They always like to have additional details, but verbally we cangivethem little but our opinions, not scientific facts. I assume theinformation we have about the Destroyers is being transmitted as wespeak.”
“It is,” I said.
“There is a possibility that we couldadd a degree of knowledge to our transmissions by returning toheadquarters. But that small degree of knowledge is overshadowed bythe good we can do in an attack,” Rab said.
“If we don’t get killed long beforewe reach our target,” An
