Chapter 8Atthe conference table, I looked at the officers. Most of them weresmiling. So was I. Our first battle with the sphere had gone ourway.If we kept that streak going…
“Ladies,gentlemen, do we know any more about the sphere now than we didwhenwe started this mission?”
“Onlya few more facts, major, but some important facts,” Tek said. “Thesphere itself remains as mysterious as ever. It’s like a lumberinggiant. It just rolls along, nothing seems to bother it. At itscurrent velocity it would enter the nearest habitable solar systeminabout two years.”
“Whichgives us a little time,” I said.
“Yesand no. It could speed up. We shouldn’t assume it will keep thisvelocity forever. But we do see an entrance to the sphere. A smallportal, which looks roughly like a door, that we can open. We u
