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"Hiraer, Admiral Sorry to bother you"

"No need for apologies, Hiram I know you wouldn't contact ent"

"Is it convenient for you to come to the data center?"

"Too important to tell me over the phone?"

"Yes, sir Wireless co overdramatic, it is critical that I brief you in private"

"Rudi Gunn and I will be there in half an hour" Sandecker slipped the phone back into the pocket of his coat and resu

"Bad news?" asked Gunn

"If I read between the lines correctly, Hiraue He wants to brief us at the data center"

"I hope the news is good"

"Not from the tone of his voice," Sandecker said soberly "I suspect he discovered so none of us wants to know"

Yaeger was slouched in his chair, feet stretched out, contee on an oversized video display computer terminal when Sandecker and Gunn walked into his private office He turned and greeted the from his chair

"What do you have for us?" Sandecker asked, not wasting words

Yaeger straightened and nodded at the video screen "I've arrived at a ence positions for the acoustic energy e operations"

"Good work, Hira at the screen "Have you deterence will be?"

Yaeger nodded "I have, but first, let me explain the process" He typed in a series of coh seawater varies with the temperatures of the sea and the hydrostatic pressure at different depths The deeper you go and the heavier the column of water above, the faster sound travels There are a hundred other variables I could go into, dealing with atence-zone propagation access and the formation of sound caustics, but I'll keep it sis"