“Please, there is no need for this,” he said. “We need to activate the Gamma Spinwards Tunnel.”
For one, two seconds, the entity stopped flashing, stopped swirling as it absorbed Ondo"s words. It appeared to understand what he was talking about. She knew for a fact that Ondo did not.
“The Tunnel is dark,” said the entity. “Sealed off. The risk is too great.”
Selene caught the flash of delight on Ondo"s features as he glanced back at her over the swelling of his helmet yoke. His guess had struck home.
“We wish to open the Tunnel again,” said Ondo.
He held up his gauntlet and projected moving images from it into the air in front of the entity. They were the correlated telemetry streams she"d pulled from Coronade, rendered as a complete globe, the land masses of the continents and,
