Looks like things have calmed down vis-à-vis the Order, at least for the moment. Gonna talk to Jake and see if, maybe when they are not feeling so... enthusiastic, if we can try to talk to them about getting their endorsement. After all, Zoners supply a large quantity of their food and a not insubstantial quantity of tech.
The local experts here in Corinth haven't spotted any faults with my theories, but they have made a couple of recommendations. The biggest one is probably the most difficult; to wit, they think we need to park Sleipnir in Omicron-85 to gather data on the black hole.
I think that they are trying to get me to do this so that they can maintain their neutrality with the Maltese. After all, Sleipnir is affiliated with Star Enterprises, not Corinth.
>snort< I've decided that, since they charged me for the lab and consulting time, if they want the data, presuming I manage to get permission to do the research, they can pay for it. Since I am already out of circulation with Star, I am just going to see if I can get the permission to do my research from the Maltese authorities and go.
After all, our own labs should be able to do everything else we need on the presumption that the gravitational survey of the black hole actually provided the data that I need, and I am going to have move this back to Star at some point.
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