"Well that's fortunate," Micah says to Natasha, if a bit cheerfully. They hand off the other folder to Natasha, and pick up a stack of flimsies apparently set aside for themself before they usher them to sit at a table with them. Micah clears off a messy assortment of lightpens, flimsies, folders and a datapad to the side with one sweep of their arm and drops their own stack of flimsies down, taking a pen out of their lab coat pocket. It seems to be more of a concentration aid than for writing, because they immediately begin chewing thoughtfully on the end of it.
"Deanna, your folder has all the plotting data the Cetagandans have gathered -- documented locations where extrauniverals have appeared. Of course, it's incomplete, as their field teams weren't able to accurately assess any other locations...they have some guesses, though. One of those flimsies ought to have those estimations. Natasha, I've handed to you the results of all their scanning data on those locations -- particle activity they picked up that they linked back to the collapsed wormhole. But the fact that they were able to link it back..."
They frown, tapping the pen to their lips. "There's a big piece missing here. At first the Cetagandans assessed it as identical to the sort of activity you'd see around the mouth of a wormhole, but they were a little off the mark. It just resembles the activity. It's close, but..."
Micah pulls a few flimsies out of their own stack -- twice as high as either of the other two's, suggesting that Micah has copies of all the data laid in front of them, and maybe a little more. They shake out two sheets in particular.
"This is a visual representation of the activity they detected at Site Alpha," Micah says, waving one flimsy. "The first arrival point, that is. And this is a visual representation, in the same notation, of activity recorded at the mouth of an actual wormhole." They lay one flimsy over the other, showing where the points match and where they don't. "Setting aside the nuances of individual wormhole signatures -- which are rather minute -- it just doesn't add up. It isn't the same."
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"Deanna, your folder has all the plotting data the Cetagandans have gathered -- documented locations where extrauniverals have appeared. Of course, it's incomplete, as their field teams weren't able to accurately assess any other locations...they have some guesses, though. One of those flimsies ought to have those estimations. Natasha, I've handed to you the results of all their scanning data on those locations -- particle activity they picked up that they linked back to the collapsed wormhole. But the fact that they were able to link it back..."
They frown, tapping the pen to their lips. "There's a big piece missing here. At first the Cetagandans assessed it as identical to the sort of activity you'd see around the mouth of a wormhole, but they were a little off the mark. It just resembles the activity. It's close, but..."
Micah pulls a few flimsies out of their own stack -- twice as high as either of the other two's, suggesting that Micah has copies of all the data laid in front of them, and maybe a little more. They shake out two sheets in particular.
"This is a visual representation of the activity they detected at Site Alpha," Micah says, waving one flimsy. "The first arrival point, that is. And this is a visual representation, in the same notation, of activity recorded at the mouth of an actual wormhole." They lay one flimsy over the other, showing where the points match and where they don't. "Setting aside the nuances of individual wormhole signatures -- which are rather minute -- it just doesn't add up. It isn't the same."