Those last words made Karl Langemann, who had also stepped forward, look sharply at Gerald Holmes.
‘’The KOSTROMA found the SHUNDAR?’’
‘’Unfortunately no, but it found traces of its passage on Hyanesu. My wife intends to show to everybody after supper a video prepared by Captain Forster, which will resume what the KOSTROMA has found to date during its interstellar trip. That way, everybody will be level with recent events before starting tomorrow morning’s meeting.’’
‘’A fine idea. I can’t wait to see it. Well, let’s enter the banquet hall: I am starting to get really hungry.’’
Entering the large hall, they saw that a relatively small table sufficient for forty persons had been set up near one extremity of the room, which could normally accommodate over 200 persons. Lined up along the
