“Possibly, but that’s beyond thecapabilities of this ship,” Kayli said. “We’d need about adozen engineering ships for that. It would take a while but wecouldtry sealing it off. There’s no guarantee of success though.”
“Shucks, just once I’d like aguarantee of success,” I said.
“That would be nice, but veryunlikely.”
“Mr. Nyquist, get all your scienceofficers together. You join them, Kayli. See what you can come upwith. Come up with a way to destroy the planet.”
“It’s not going to be easy,”Kayli said.
“Well, you know our motto. Thedifficult we do today. The impossible may take about aweek.”
“Yes, sir.”
I rubbed my chin. “I don’t want togive up yet on destroying the mist. Probes are not armed and arebuilt to fly, not resist any attacks. Let’s use one of ourshuttles, send it and see if
