Project Epsilon

[Diomedes]

Gunther grunted in a laughing sort of way, "I can understand that. There's a few choice groups we'd like as make the same exception for." Gunther shadowed Jasmine, following her hands and her eyes, trying to see what she saw; he tried to note what he could, how many connections, what gauge connections and so on.

"Excuse my looking Ms. Estelle, I'm just curious to see as much of Hex5 as possible. How do you ensure he has enough storage for all the data he brings in? And how have you been able to provide connections fast enough to carry all that data at peak load from all those drones?," the chief engineer said, numbers spinning through his head. Each drone like as not had some operational independence, but Hex5 was controlling all of it, based on a truly massive amount of sensor data. And all this was being decided upon by drawing on a database Gunther couldn't really begin to conceptualize the size of in numbers.

Catalina also decided to speak up, "Perhaps a less technical question, and I mean to imply nothing by this. Why show us all this? It's incredible, I can think of many uses for this type of construction ability. But if people know about it you lose your advantage do you not? Of course we'll keep anything you wish confidential on our honour, but in general, why trust us unknown freelancers?"

Joao raised an eyebrow at the question. It was blunt for Catalina, usually the one person on The Diomedes that had a knack for subtlety. But then, it was phrased innocently, her tone conveying purely interest rather than real questioning. There was a reason she handled the politics.

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